Maybe?!

More snow coming today. Now that's something
the young and the old could relate to.

I have a friend who I haven't been in contact with since college until we recently became friends on Facebook. I casually read Evelyn's posts then and again, but one recently made me sit up and take notice. She was inviting people to see her perform at a comedy club on an open mike night. What?!! That's not the Evelyn I knew. In fact, that's not anyone I knew.

But it got me thinking. Maybe I could do that. I was shocked that I had that thought even more than I was shocked that Evelyn did it. I had no idea what I would talk about or what my jokes would be, but I was intrigued. It's a kind of performance that I would like to try. My mind swirled with who my audience would be, what kind of stories they would like, and would I be funny to a younger audience because of my with my lack of knowledge of their world. Material did not come easily. In fact, none of it every made it to paper (screen), but even after a few days of thinking about it, I was still interested.

That was until one day when I realized that I didn't stay up late enough to perform in any club. That was it. If I don't get my sleep, I am a really unhappy person. And the idea of performing was not enough to that override the lack of sleep factor. So I tabled the idea. So much for my stand up comic career.

Unless... I can find an afternoon audience of older people. Maybe I'd start with the story of how I couldn't do this in a regular comedy club because they're open too late. Maybe?!