Honesty, or laughter

[tigertail777]

I had no idea this little question would spawn so many answers. I mostly asked because I have one of those nearly humorless friends, who is quite honest. This person I do love as a brother, but sometimes I want to hit him on the head with a frying pan, he cannot, will not take any kind of joke whatsoever. The only time he gets to be any semblence of normal in the laughter department is when he is dead tired, which when I go do stuff with him I feel guilty, but I try to make him dead tired on purpose. Otherwise he a) tries to feed me religion like it was the last food I would ever eat, b) goes on and on about how people should be more PC and things he doesnt like, or c) talks about the latest collectable piece in his comic book collecting empire. Repeat wash and rinse with very little variation. I have known him since Junior High, and frankly I feel that he has changed and not for the better. He was always pretty serious but never as bad as this or so stuck in a rut; he seems to have no desire to do anything better with his life at all, he doesnt strive for anything but where he's at and always complains about it. I want to remain friends, and I dont want to hurt his feelings, but I think for my own sanity I need to distance myself from him a bit.

The little question was just sort of my way of venting I guess. But the answers were very interesting.