that was supposed to be a joke. i am not sure you could tell that by the way i wrote it. do i need to put the card back?

so i'll be there at the greeting card rack just passing time reading cards and chuckling and thinking how this one here would be perfect for jojo or oliver or whoever, but then i think whoever probably wouldn't get the joke, so i put the card back. why do they make cards that are so complex that only i can understand them?

just kidding. no, seriously, i'm just kidding. 99.98% of the time = kidding. this results in people Pointedly Staring at me 99.97% of the time. what is it with people? everyone is so Serious About Things. no one has a sense of humour about anything anymore. yeah, that's right - you're all humourless.

just kidding!

the problem is that people are all the time saying stuff that they are not kidding about, and then they say "just kidding" as a way to Make It Okay. not only does saying you're kidding when you're patently not kidding not make it okay, but it ruins it for those of us who are kidding. no, seriously, i am not kidding around here.

or, am i?