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Posted By: Travholt, on host 193.69.109.2
Date: Friday, August 10, 2001, at 08:03:10

I'm actually a pretty funny guy. It's just that I'm not very extrovert. Not that I mind having attention and stuff, I cope with that just fine when finally I have it. It's just that I have trouble getting it in the first place. Besides, I like one-on-one communication best.

This has an annoying side effect.

You see, some people steal my jokes, and then *they* come off as the funny one. I have noticed this especially happening with one friend of mine, and thought it was a thing *he* did; that *he* was the problem. But yesterday, I went to a concert with *another* of my friends. He also went with other friends of his, which I don't know very well. In the intermission, I said something funny to my friend, and because of the seating and the noise in the room, only he heard it. That was OK, because that's what I intended. But then he instantly passed it on to the others, and they laughed. He came off as the funny one, while I sat in the background and wasn't noticed at all.

This is, of course, frustrating. Not because I crave the attention and recognition that comes with people thinking you're funny. Well, that, too, but mostly because I hate when people get the wrong impression of me.

Has anyone else had this experience?

Trav"and what can be done about it?"holt.

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