Something Funny

            So here is an instance of something I found funny that happened at the beginning of spring break. Hopefully you can get a little laugh out of it.

Let me preface this by telling you a little bit about my younger sister Sabrina. She is 15, and easily one of the strangest people I know. She is absolutely hysterical because she is so weird. Anyways, every time I have come home this year she has left little surprises in my room. And not like the cute surprises like flowers or candy or a little note. No, like weird, strange surprises. When I came home for fall break she cut out eight pictures of Kim Kardashian’s fluffy white cat and hid them throughout my room. She put them under my desk, by my bed, on my lamp, etc. Why does she do this you may ask? Couldn’t tell you. So this time when I came home she decided to surprise me again.

            And what was the surprise this time? Well she cut out pictures of Nicholas Cage’s face and covered every single photo in my room with these cutouts. Literally every single picture. I wasn’t expecting another weird surprise in my room, and this little “surprise” was much more subtle than the last. So it took me a quite a while before I realized what she had done, but I finally noticed it, I instantly starting laughing.

            I think the main reason it was so hilarious was because it came out of nowhere (yup, sorry, a cognitive shift). I have zero interest in Nicholas Cage. I’m pretty sure I’ve never even mentioned his name. But that is what makes it so funny because it was something I never would have expected. First off, I never would’ve expected her to take the time to cut out pictures of someone’s’ face and replace mine with it. Second, Nicholas Cage is about the last person I would expect her to use.

I was just sitting at my desk about to get on my computer and that’s when I out of the corner of my eye I saw my senior prom picture, featuring Nicholas Cage’s head on my body. I immediately thought “WHAT ON EARTH” and then burst into laughter. I knew it had to be the work of my little sister. That’s also what made it funny- it was such a classic “Sabrina” thing to do. I know few other people who would take the time to do something that meticulous and strangely creative. But like I said, that’s my sister for you and let me tell you, she’s a gem. No one makes me laugh as much as she does, and it’s because she does the weirdest things that throw me completely off guard.

I definitely think Morreal was right when he said that the bigger the cognitive shift is, the funnier we find the experience