Yes, definitely. It's how we keep the FUN in dysFUNctional.
Beth, my husband tells a similar joke to yours: Friends help you move. Good friends help you move a body. And the staff at my difficult child's Residential Treatment Center (RTC) often say: Pop quiz -- if you're down to one tranquilizer and you have two clients freaking out, who gets the sedative? Answer: The staff on duty.
Honestly, I can't tell whether I came by my sense of irony by nature or nurture. With difficult child-parents, a difficult child-sibling, a houseful of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) spectrum children, and in a line of work that also tends to attract Aspies of all stripes...I've pretty-much always been surrounded. So you either laugh or the men with the nets come and get you.