A joke might offend your friend

United States
September 3, 2009 4:44am CST
Does this ever happen to you? You were trying to tell a joke to your friend, and just trying to teasing him for unharmful reason. Your ultimate intention just want to stir up the atmosphere a little bit, and make it a little bit funny. Unexpectedly, your joke backfired, because your friend took it in a wrong way, and he found it offended. It happened to me once, and I try to pick a joke carefully next time. And I have to consider the situation and time to tell that joke too.
2 responses
med889
@med889 (5941)
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3 Sep 09
Yes it has happened to me though I still feel bad about it and then I understood that not every one understand jokes very easily and above all there is a way to tell a joke but sometimes we just miss that part and the other person feels terribly bad about what we say. One should be very careful though like me. Now I see if that person understands jokes and I use a very jovial tone to say that joke.
gabrielutp
@gabrielutp (34)
• Malaysia
3 Sep 09
Yeap, it happened to me several times. Sometimes just don't know what to do about it cause most of the time is the friend took it personally. What I did was just to apologise and try to avoid teasing the same friend. I believe everyone has the limit of accepting different levels of jokes.