Rejection, lawn chairs & insomnia (Happy Monday!)
August 04, 2008 By: almostgotit Category: Uncategorized, friends, humor, jokes, rejection, rejection sensitivity
A friend of mine let me blog for a whole entire week on the subject of rejection before admitting to me that his psych lab research at Berkeley was on the topic of “rejection sensitivity.”
There followed a rather intense exchange of emails in which I obnoxiously tried to debunk everything he said. That’s me, an obnoxious debunker. So no wonder, maybe, he never told me what he’d been doing for two whole years of his life?
On the bright side, he also sent me two very good jokes. I hope he won’t mind if I pass them on:
Q. What’s Irish and stays out all night?
A. Patio Furniture.
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Q. What do insomniac, dyslexic agnostics do all night?
A. They stay awake wondering if there is a Dog.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
For anyone interested, the website of the lab (Relationships and Social Cognition Lab — RASCL) where I worked at UC Berkeley is:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rascl/
Much of the research in the lab focuses on two types of rejection sensitivity: one based on unique personal characteristics (e.g., “I’m just not a likeable person”) and the other based on membership in an out-group.
In the joke department, one of my all time favorites is:
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Control freak [then frantically butting in before they can say "control freak who?"] Now you say “control freak who?”
August 4th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
What… not done with rejection yet? Do we have to hire you a therapist or something?
August 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
@David: thanks for giving us the link! I’ll stop debunking, now.
@Felicia: Oh, yes PLEASE?
August 5th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Okay, something must be wrong with me because I don’t get the “patio furniture” work.
Thinking about it again. Still nothing.
I think I’ll go to bed…….
August 5th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Argh. I meant patio furniture “joke.”
Must. Get. Some. Sleep.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Re the Patio furniture joke. Say it out loud to yourself..
August 7th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Ha. The next morning I woke up, thought of this again, and “got it” immediately….(groan).