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One day I had to take a news article I had written to my boss for approval before sending it off for publication. When I entered her office, she looked up from her desk with her usual scowl. I grinned at her sheepishly, then handed over the article and stood back to wait while she read it.

 

When she finished, she stood up from her desk, walked over to me, and threw the pages of the article in my face.

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"And you call yourself a writer," she sneered as I bent down to collect the papers scattered across the floor. And that's when it happened; I burst out in uncontrollable, maniacal laughter.

 

Unable to contain myself, I scurried back to my own office and spent the next several minutes trying to pull myself together. ​​​​​​

 

With hindsight, I see that a normal reaction would have been to burst into tears and run dramatically out of the room. My boss would have liked that. But in typical Piggly fashion, I did the opposite.
 

Was it embarrassing? Yes. Mostly because my boss was so unnerved by my abnormal response that she told my supervisor that she never wanted to be alone with me again. 

 

Talk about overreacting! But whatever. It was fine by me! Ha, Ha! Sob.

 

Head over to the School for Wayward Writers to see what Professor McManus has to say about seeing the humor in things in Lesson 9.