I generally find practical humor to be tedious, rude and a little childish but one day my brother pulled off one of the best sight gags in the history of
funniness. On the way back from the dive trip my uncle's miniture van
had a transmission go home to drive train heaven. We had to get towed
to a garage for the repairs to be made and while we were there we
were doing whatsoever we could to pass the very long and hot hours.
One of the mellow and quite kids decided to catch up on some napping
he had been meaning to get to. He laid down in a shady spot of
parking lot with the curb for a pillow. He laid on his back, crossed
his angles, then laced his hands behind his head, tipped his fedora
over his eyes and drifted off to dream of girls he would never have
the nerve to approach. While he rested gently, my brother hit upon a
hilarious addition to his maximally relaxed pose and that was to take
a mostly smoked butt off of the ground and set it in his lips. It
doesn't sound like much but the whole scene just really came together
to make it look like that dude was laying back for a regular parking
lot chill out and was enjoying a cigarette which was so far out of
character that it was the most hilarious thing I had ever seen. We
were all laughing so hard we were crying someone was looking for a
camera when my uncle came out and ruined the fun. He completely
ignored the great piece of humor history that was being made and
chose to focus in on the one little gross thing about the joke, the
manky cigarette from the ground that was in a 15-year-old's mouth. He
ran over and pulled the butt out of the unwitting comedy set-piece
kid's mouth and told us all that we were jerks for thinking that was
funny. Maybe so, but it was still really funny.
