A sense of humor is, I think, essential to getting through life with any measure of sanity. I pity those people who don't have one.
This hit me last week when I got stuck in one of those self-checkout lanes at a local ultramegasuperstore. The people just in front of me, who had been at the back of an extensive line themselves, seemed on that evening to be a humorless group.
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