What’s funny? Slapstick comics knew they were sure to get a laugh by falling down. Depending on your sense of humour, it can be fun to watch teenagers fall on a slick little patch of ice as they leave school. A video, since pulled down from YouTube, recorded a father, waiting for his daughter, records some six minutes of kids falling, sliding, standing around while other kids fall, going back to the ice, falling again and somehow finally walking away. Through it all, the man with the video absolutely relishes each bounce. He chuckles and guffaws and adds sound effects. When his daughter joins him in the car his play by play becomes even more elaborate. “Okay…watch this kid, I guarantee ya he’s gonna drill it….Ohhhh!. Altogether it is a faceted study in human nature. The sheer enjoyment of the father, teenagers oblivious to what’s beneath their feet, others (mostly girls) who can figure out the potential for falling, the lure of the ice (mostly boys) that makes them return to the patch.
