The Worst Thing

You ever hear people say, “Oh, I got a hangnail the other day and I had to tear it off, and it bled for like, 15 minutes straight!”
And then someone else near them says, “Oh, that’s the WORST!”

Um, sorry, but I’m sure I can think of a few things that are worse than THAT. How about being shot? Does a hangnail compare to a bulletwound? And you never hear these stories when they are serious topics, you know what I mean? It’s always some little thing like a hangnail, or biting your tongue, you never hear one hunter say to another, “Man John, I’m lucky, I woke up and my campground was on fire, and outside were 3 hungry black bears, and I had spilled my honey all over me, so even hornets were coming. Naturally, they took one of my arms.”
“Oh, being covered in honey is the WORST!”

You know, you never hear it when it’s something serious and life threatening. Just once I’d like to hear a guy say, “Man, being castrated in the WORST!” I want it to be serious. It’s like when someone says, “You’re kidding” in a non serious conversation, right? You’re talking to someone, and you say something like, “Yeah, my pregnant sister fell down the stairs and now she’s had a miscarriage.”
And the other person goes, “You’re KIDDING.”
You just stare at them for a second, and then you’re like, “No, as hilarious as that may be, I’m totally serious.”

We need to start using these things in the context of what they were created for. Either that, or get rid of them entirely.

m@rk