Hysterical & Hilarious - It’s Hysterious!

One of the favourite things I enjoy doing is visiting my friends Dave & Eileen which I do most every Friday after suffering through another work week. We end up sitting at the kitchen table for hours drinking and reminiscing about past events. Over the years we’ve gone on several road trips together to the States but only once have all three of us gone together. This gives me a definite advantage because we tend to jump from one incident to another in our story-telling. Such was the case last night.

I can’t remember what it was we were talking about, but all of a sudden Dave, with a straight face utters the words “that was hysterious!” Eileen and I both looked at each other, then one of us asked “hysterious?” Dave replied, “yes, it was hysterious” to which Eileen and I both collapsed laughing. Trying to compose ourselves because Dave was sitting there puzzled as to why we would be in convulsions, Eileen finally said “there’s no such word as “hysterious.” Dave was adamant that there was and I tried explaining that he either meant it was hysterical or hilarious and that if we were playing Scrabble I would challenge him on the word “hysterious.”

We were convinced that Dave had invented a new word and we said that from now on it would be used to describe something that was both hysterical and hilarious. But, alas, today, before writing this, I googled the word “hysterious” and as it turns out there’s an Urban Dictionary that contains it. And, the weird thing is we can’t even remember what it was that we were talking about that was so hysterious. Of course, that could have been as a result of the booze!

Anyways, have you ever noticed that when sitting with friends and reliving past memories that you suddenly remember more things about the event than you did the last time you talked about it? Some of it may be true but oftentimes it’s added to embellish a story – making it all the more enjoyable than it actually may have been!

that’s the way I see it

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