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Question: Do you think raising difficult children makes us more open to a cynical sense of humor?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 404048" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I think it does. You probably find the same type of sarcastic black humor in any group of people who are "in the trenches" all the time and are constantly in stressful situations. It's a way of coping and saving your sanity. You will find this same type of inside humor among medical people, police officers, and probably in the military too as a way of blowing off steam. And it serves to detach you a bit from the source of the stress.</p><p> </p><p>I spent the last 24 years working in a close security State prison, a very highly stressful work environment, especially for those who work around the inmates all the time. And those are also some of the funniest people I've ever met in my life! Just get a bunch of them telling stories and you'll laugh till you cry, even though it would absolutely horrify an outsider! Our all-time favorite story was about how they once found an inmate who had hung himself on a rope made from torn bed sheets. They were trying to support him and hold him up but this was a really big guy and when they cut the rope he fell forward and smacked his head on the metal bunk bed. He really been hadn't really been hanging long enough to harm himself but the fractured skull he got from hitting the bunk bed darned near killed him! Every time they told that story, we'd all laugh till we practically wet ourselves! If you didn't laugh, you'd cry!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 404048, member: 1883"] I think it does. You probably find the same type of sarcastic black humor in any group of people who are "in the trenches" all the time and are constantly in stressful situations. It's a way of coping and saving your sanity. You will find this same type of inside humor among medical people, police officers, and probably in the military too as a way of blowing off steam. And it serves to detach you a bit from the source of the stress. I spent the last 24 years working in a close security State prison, a very highly stressful work environment, especially for those who work around the inmates all the time. And those are also some of the funniest people I've ever met in my life! Just get a bunch of them telling stories and you'll laugh till you cry, even though it would absolutely horrify an outsider! Our all-time favorite story was about how they once found an inmate who had hung himself on a rope made from torn bed sheets. They were trying to support him and hold him up but this was a really big guy and when they cut the rope he fell forward and smacked his head on the metal bunk bed. He really been hadn't really been hanging long enough to harm himself but the fractured skull he got from hitting the bunk bed darned near killed him! Every time they told that story, we'd all laugh till we practically wet ourselves! If you didn't laugh, you'd cry! [/QUOTE]
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