Someone said “Tact is for people not witty enough to be sarcastic”. I love sarcasm. I watch episodes of Seinfeld and wish I had an apartment in New York. I like “getting it”. I’ve been with people who are completely opposite of sarcastic. They tend to be very literal with what I’m saying to them. It gets awkward when I have to point out that I was being sarcastic. That’s not to say I wouldn’t hang out with this person or that we couldn’t end up being friends, however, I don’t think I could be close friends with someone who wasn’t sarcastic.
So why am I bringing this up? Well, I didn’t realize it till recently. I always knew I felt more comfortable with people who had a certain personality. Those who are quick to make fun of me and even more of themselves. Someone who can point out something obsessive that I do or say and make a joke out of it. What that says to me is that they realize a “flaw” that I have and they love me anyway.
I’m just putting it out there….so I’m ending with a line from Seinfeld taken from “The Chinese Restaurant” episode: “I can’t go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?”….

July 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hmm. I wonder what this says about me…
July 4th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I so agree with ya as I’m surrounded by “literal” folks every day. It’s rough cuz I just can’t hold my sarcastic self back and I’m constantly looked at like, “wow, what a jerk.” I keep hoping I’ll rub off on them or at least get them to laugh, but then we’d just have a bunch of cracked faces to look at :-).