When I was a wee lad, I had a habit of "derailing the joke train". Charlie and Sam would mock me mercilessly for coming in to late to a joke and ruining it with a particularly bad attempt at the joke. While I've since overcome this problem to become the endlessly charming and witty young man you all know and love, it raises the question for this week:
If you start to tell a story, and realize that it's not going to work at all, and that the entire room is just going to stare at you after you're done, do you keep going with the story, or do you bail?
Post-script- Ironically enough, it was this question that derailed the QOTW joke - I got so insanely busy for a while that I just didn't get around to it, and then I just kind of forgot about it. Also, I only got like two responses. But Berger's was awesome, so he's getting some much-deserved credit, albeit a little late:
I immediately stop my current story line, and finish with "And I returned his artificial heart, and ever since then I've been known as 'Honest Berger' ".
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