Thought of the Day? Funny.

I send a decent number of emails in a day.  Some days more than others.  I like to think that a lot of daily business can happen in a non-invasive, efficient manner through email; plus then there's a "paper" trail.  Unfortunately, I find that many people- otherwise fully functioning adults, might I add- are not on board with this concept of the "electronic mail".
Arcade Fire wrote a song about mail.  At least, that's what I think it's about...how we used to wait for it...and sometimes it never came...maybe it's about love, or ejaculation.  But I think it's about mail.
Anyway, business email is less exciting than social email, generally speaking.  I upped my spam filters so I no longer get quite as many "cute kitten picture" forwards, and FAR less advertisements for increasing my libido, but not so much that I eliminated my friends' hilarious musings.
There's little better than sitting at your desk, doing some mundane work-related thing, when an email pops up that is sent from someone funnier than you who has something interesting to say.
I have a couple friends who are masterful at this art.
One in particular spent at least a month brightening my day with a thought on something random.

KJ Randoms

"You know what's weird?"

(they'd always start like this.)

"Cashews.  One little cashew nut grows on the end of this great, big, inedible fruit.  On a tree.  So each tree grows, like, 35 cashews.  Isn't that weird?"

"Bologna.  First of all, look at that word.  It should be spelled 'baloney'.  Basically, it's a flattened hot dog.  It's all the same stuff.  But we cook hot dogs and mostly eat bologna cold.  What's up with that?"

"Sock puppets.  Why did people go to socks to make puppets?  Why not gloves or mittens?"

...and so forth.  It was a little bit of delight in my otherwise boring day.  She once also sent me a picture of her giving me the finger with the caption "FU, Fathead".  She's right.  My head is fat.

Receiving these emails is better than going on google and trying to find something funny to look at or read.  It's sort of like personalized comics, without the pictures, unless your friend actually writes you a comic and sends it to you.  It's rad.

So I suggest unto you, readers, that you insert your little ray of funny into your friends' boxes.  Yeah, I said it. 

Moral of this story: Everyone's box could use a little warming.