You could tempt him outside with the veterinarian’s clientele.
You could tempt him outside with the veterinarian’s clientele.
How long could each of these options live off the other?
AND plasma, if you’ve had Taco Bell.
If a German has leftovers he helpfully leaves them atop pool chairs to feed the hungry.
Take your fucking socks and sandals and march your ass right out of my open air brick patio, sir.
“In the end, we decided the benefits were worth it.” “The benefits?” “Oh you know: healthcare, affordable wages, plenty of vacation…”
I can understand wanting to honor your friend, but by making his death the butt of the joke that’s a lot more collateral damage than you intended.
It might work out better if you make dark jokes that aren’t pointed AT your friend but are directed outward, with a “he’d like that” tacked on. That way, it highlights something you liked about him without hitting other people.
Probably because you crossed the line from “dark” to “cruel”.
Without speaking to him in years, and especially about that mutual friend, you have no idea how he’s viewed that loss, or has other, more recent losses that are similar.
And you kept pushing it when he didn’t laugh, either deliberately or inadvertently using the social convention of not causing a scene/confronting someone over a joke to your advantage.
Wasn’t there one of these where he kept a steak in the danger zone for like a week or so?