Claim to Fame or Infamy - OOH

 Claim to Fame or Infamy? - OOH

In a room in Diamond Suites and Residences, in Mandaue City:

An ad caught my attention. It was an invitation to take part in a blogger’s competition, a world event at that. We had been asked to write about the FUN at blogging in the social media space or something like that.

 So I thought, well, why the heck not? 

And so here I am...

The organisers, Cebu Bloggers Society, have been identified for some good natured fun.

I introduced myself as a newbie who has dabbled in blogs of the morbid kind for just 29 instances. So I have 29 morbid instances to justify my “fun”, I concluded very sagaciously.

Their faces grew long. At length said a very disturbed Mr. Mark Monta, sincerely, “I don’t think you understand. We meant what FUN did you have writing these blogs?”

And I very patiently replied I had a lot of FUN writing these morbid posts.

They said, no , we mean, FUN, see?

I said, yes, I see. I too mean, FUN, see?

Incredulity mounted to consternation at the mismatched semantics of the word, all of which was recorded and uploaded on YouTube. (Dear me!)

At length, they called in a guard to show the lunatic out the door...

... At which time I was forced to end this little charade and reveal my identity as a blogger that wrote fun stories for the social media space, “just for fun”...

... but not before reminding them that they too had now become the target of one of my sick and pallid jokes and did that mean I stood a chance to win the TATT Awards?

As was expected, I was summarily shown the door.

 (Published long after the event. For obvious reasons I did not participate!)