you know what i hate? i hate it when you think something is so ridiculously funny, you HAVE to show your friends. you hype it up for an eternity, and the moment finally comes where you can show your friends what you have been talking about.

and there is this... awkward feeling of pressure. why? it's because you hyped something up so much, it's going to make you look like an idiot if it's not funny to your friends. and the funny thing is, the majority of the time it's not going to be funny to your friends. i mean, if they discovered it on their own, it would be really funny... but because you hyped it up so much, it's not that funny to them.

i'm sure everyone has experienced this on both sides. i remember during freshman year, my friend made us all watch this movie, called "The Pest." Ever since day one, he talked non-stop about it and kept on telling us we all have to watch it, not to mention all the scenes he acted out for us. so one day, we finally saw it... and "The Pest" has to be on my all-time top 10 list of worst movies i have ever watched. most of us fell asleep, except for the person who referred it. and as i recall, he was the only one laughing that whole nite. everyone else was sleeping.

on the flip side, i've hyped up "Spaceballs" to the point where everyone that's been around me has lived the entire movie through my impersonations of Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet. i mean, it's such a great movie - and this has been something i've been preaching since 7th grade. no joke. bus rides to school, all we ever talked about was Spaceballs. so after talking about it for so long, i finally showed my friend Janette. she fell asleep, and i felt like a moron.

what is the moral of the lesson?
Don't ever watch "The Pest" and you haven't lived until you've seen "Spaceballs."