Silly things

I've just been looking through some friends' photos on Facebook. I have a lot of 'friends' on Facebook, I'm not going to lie. Nor will I lie about the fact that all of them are my friends.

But on this occasion, I was looking through a good friend's photographs of the last year or so. I have many different groups of friends mainly due to the fact that I've moved around a lot and done so many different things with my time.

It made me smile looking through each picture, realizing that my friends and their friends do stupid things for fun too.

Take for example this one. My sister and I always try to send each other the worst postcard we can find each other when one of us is on holiday. We also buy each other the tackiest present one can find. My friend and I also try and buy the worst T-shirts we can find as souvenirs of our trips.
A recent trip to Canada almost had us walking away with the most awful wolves and moon T-Shirt...had it not been for the $25 price tag we may have been tempted.

So it was a relief to see in these photos that my friends do this kind of stuff too. The picture that made me laugh the most was that of my friend and her friend on the beach in France. She had a pink bikini top and matching green bottoms. Her friend had the matching green top, and pink bottoms. I can only imagine that this was deemed a good idea when they saw it in the local tat shop. And indeed it was.

Isn't this what holidays with your loved ones are for? Relaxing, drinking, forgetting about work, your troubles - and seemingly dress sense - left at home?

Another friend of mine had a birthday party a while back; the theme was Tube stations. His costume was a packet of ham. Depending on whether he held the ham in his right or left hand determined whether he was East or West Ham.

On a recent night out, we walked past a book seller on the street. A book named 'God's Gift to Women' caught my friend's eye. He bought it for the bargainous price of $3 and proceeded to read excerpts of it not just to us, but to random people on the street. Much fun was had with that book, until we all woke up the next morning and realized we'd left it somewhere.

The jokes still live on though, as do the friendships. It's good to know that when you're running with a joke and you stop to think about whether it's actually funny, you realize that other people do this too.