Did you know that the average 4 year old laughs 300 times a day? Guess how much the average 40 year old laughs every day. 

4 times. 

Only 4 times????? 

Yep, you heard me right. 

So, are we headed for a life full of depression? What other explanation is there? How is it possible that a 4 year old would laugh 75 times more than an adult on a daily basis. 

Well, I’ll tell you how. And spoiler alert— it’s not because we’re all heading for a life of gloom and unhappiness. The reality is that people take life and themselves too seriously. 

Do you know what happens when a young child trips and falls over their own two feet? Sometimes they cry if they get injured, but a large majority of the time they laugh and get back up again before continuing to go on their way.  

As we grow older, we fall victim to constantly being stressed and worrying. We want to be perfect, and we try and reach that high expectation for ourselves by staying driven and goal-orientated. But, in the process we lose that youthfulness of being able to destress and realize that we aren’t perfect. 

One thing I’ve always been proud of is my ability to laugh at myself. It may sound stupid, but I think that too many times people are so scared of failing or of not being absolutely perfect that they miss out. Let me tell you, I have a long list of blonde moments in my life, and instead of trying to look past them or forget them, I keep their memories alive by sharing the stories with my family and friends. 

Lucky for you, I’m feeling particularly close with all of you right now. So please enjoy my top 6, funniest and blondest moments of my 18 years on earth. 

1 Medium Eggs?  

It was 5th grade, the night air was crisp, and my family was enjoying a lovely meal at Denny’s. I ordered pancakes with eggs and sausage, because I have good taste. But, when the waitress asked me how I wanted my eggs I panicked because I had no idea what that meant. So I answered “medium”. With the look she gave me, you would have thought that I had three heads. 

The iconic restaurant Denny’s, where many unforgettable memories were made.

2) Ankle snatcher? 

This next funny story also happened at Denny’s. Guess that restaurant really made me who I am today. 

Anyways, it was Halloween time and my family was eating here yet again. Denny’s had a mini haunted house inside the restaurant. So my siblings and I went in. Terrified, I did the dumbest thing I could do. I stepped away from my brother and I walked by the one covered table in the haunted house. Someone under the table grabbed my ankle, and I screamed and literally almost peed my pants. 

This traumatizing experience has stayed with me to this day, because even as an 18 year old I still jump getting onto my bed so that the monster under my bed won’t grab my ankle. 

3) No dad, Tyler’s not 14 

On a family vacation, my family went to Tennessee and we visited old, historical homes on plantations by doing house tours. It was filled with hours upon hours of the same boring thing “And here is the blood stain of Abraham Lincoln’s cousin’s son’s daughter’s boyfriend’s parent’s nephew who fell one fatal day” It was practically torture, but that’s beyond the point. 

When we went to sign up, my dad went up to pay. There was a huge cut off in payment between 14 and under, and being 15 or older. By being in the lower group, you saved $30. Well my brother had just turned 15 a few months prior to this trip, and when my dad went to pay for the tickets and said that he had three children under 14, I said 

“Wait Dad what do you mean? Tyler isn’t 14, he turned 15 a few months ago, remember?” 

Yikes that was a bad day. Not only were the tours boring as hell, but I also got yelled at like I never have before.  

4)There’s a sign there? 

This is a similar sign to the one I smashed my head into on this fateful day. (Just to give you an idea of how stupid I was for choosing to ignore it).

During middle school, my family went on a vacation to Texas. On one of the days of our trip, we got out of our car and started walking across a field to go to a park or something. I became deep in thought, and I remember seeing a sign in front of me. In my haze, I thought that I could fit under it but I couldn’t so BOINGGGGG my face slapped right into the sign.

No cellphone. No talking to anyone. Nothing to distract me. I just walked into a sign because I was dumb enough to think I could fit under it.

5) Butter or Cream cheese? Same Difference. 

My mom makes an amazing baked potato soup in the crockpot, but it takes awhile to cook. During her lunch break one day, she put everything in and after school she asked me to do the last step in and add the cream cheese. 

So I did what she asked, or at least I thought I did. But really, instead of adding a stick of cream cheese I added a stick of butter. The soup was ruined and when my mom realized, she lost it. My sister tried to eat the soup to make it seem like it was okay, but even I couldn’t do that. To this day, my family doesn’t let me live it down. 

But to my defense, butter and cream cheese do kind of look alike. 

6) That’s not actually a word…

I have taken Spanish in school for more than 5 years of my life. And although I am probably the whitest person ever trying to learn it, I thought that I was pretty good. I used to try and speak it as much as I could outside of school, and during that time I started saying a word that I thought was real, but really wasn’t. 

“Amunto” means amount doesn’t it? 

Well, up until Spanish 4 I thought it did. I used it in papers, socratic seminars, and in speaking assessments. And NOBODY, literally NOBODY, had the guts to tell me that what I was saying was completely wrong. Until my Spanish 4 teacher Señora Pitts told me it wasn’t a word after I used it on a test. 

When I found out, I literally laughed so hard I cried. For five years of my life, I made up a Spanish word by taking an English word and adding an “O” to it, and I genuinely tricked myself into believing it was a real word. 

That’s a special kind of stupid. 

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I hope that my experiences made you laugh! Remember, it is important to let loose sometimes and see the hilarity in the world and in ourselves. We all make mistakes, and you can trust me when I tell you that’s it’s better to use them to laugh than to try and pretend they never happened. 

Have any funny stories you would like to share? Please leave them below in the comments. I could always use a few more laughs 🙂