the true joy of being gullible...

Here is a good story. So Jon (intern) decided to thumb a lift (hitch hike) home from town after a night of camping. So early the next morning on the way home Mark drops him off in town and he starts his journey alone. He sticks his thumb out and the first man picks him up. He climbs in the car with this older gentleman. They begin to make small talk but as soon as the man hears his American accent, he pulls over and tell Jon to get out. Jon leaves the car and starts the process again. The next car to pick him up is a young man in his late twenties/early thirties. They start to talk and this man begins to ask questions like: name, why are you here, do you have a girlfriend etc. This man takes him to the end of our road and as Jon gets out of the car, this man asks for his phone number. Jon now recognizing that this man is hitting on him replies that he doesn't know his number and shuffles out of the car in order to conceal his butt. He doesn't want this guy looking at it. (Jon is a modest, straight man and embarrassed at this). As he starts down our road towards home, a nice elderly lady picks him up and gives him a lift. Poor Jon, 3 cars and only1 sane person. So this epic journey is retold to me during our team meeting and as Jon is confessing about the gay man making a move on him, I begin to sympathize with him as I have had lesbians check me out before. (Very awkward, pray it never happens!) Then that night at dinner we retell the story to Fra and then..........

BOOM!!!! Mark, Jon and all the others crack up laughing because it is one huge made up story and I believed it ALL DAY LONG! Yeah they enjoyed the fact that they threw a line out and as Mark says, "I bit it, hook, line and sinker". I was mildly disappointed when I found out the story wasn't true. The only truth in the tale was that Jon did hitch hike however, it was uneventful. But we had a good laugh at the tall tale and my gullibleness. Yeah I do what I can to entertain others. I always have been on the gullible side and frankly it is a good thing. I am secure enough in myself to allow myself to laugh at me when I believe dumb things. It is great to be able to laugh at yourself and even better when you can get others to laugh out loud. And that is the true joy of being gullible.