Funny?

That perennial question: If a tree falls down in the forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound? came to mind yesterday afternoon.

As I was leaving the house to embark on my hour and a half school run (I didn't know it was going to take that long beforehand) I said to the dogs 'behave yourselves while I'm out ......... don't go getting your mates round as soon as I leave the house' and then I had a little giggle before checking myself and wondering whether or not I'm insane! So my question is, if you make a joke and have a laugh and there's nobody around to hear it does that still make it funny?!

Very often when I'm out on my own, especially in the car, I see things that amuse me and I have a little laugh to myself. Today it was the teenagers in the car behind me sharing a pair of earphones, the wire stretched out between driver and passenger, each of them with one earpiece in! Don't know why, but it just tickled me! Another day it might be a kid on a moped driving with his head literally between his knees in an effort to squeeze an extra half a mile an hour out of the tiny inadequate engine; or the old age pensioner blithely pottering along in the kerb of a busy road on his mobility scooter completely oblivious to the chaos in his wake (obviously this is only amusing if witnessed from the opposite carriage of the road!); or the short skinny boy walking hand in hand with his tall fat girlfriend etc etc

Anyway, I've no idea if I'm insane or not - perhaps everybody makes jokes to their dogs when there's nobody else around. And, perhaps the dogs, even though they still look at me with that blank expression that could mean anything from 'go on then, sod off and leave me alone..again' to 'oh, how funny, you're such a card!', really do appreciate a bit of humour now and then!

Some funny faces from the past week: