Isn't acting like everyone else simply saying what they said and/or doing what they did? It doesn't even have to be the exact same thing, just similar. If the jokes aren't about pee, shyt, and puke, or about politics, religion, and sex, then how could you tell appropriate from inappropriate? What's weird is that I'd joke around like other people do and get told that it's not funny.

I've been kicked out of middle school for acting like everyone else, esp the popular kids. THe cool kids didn't even get into the trouble I did and they're the most authority-defying group. The same thing got me into trouble frequently in high school.

One incident happened when I joked about 420 and marijuana and saying to someone that he posted that stuff on Facebook. It was at front counter but there were very few customers at that time. I remember other people occasionally joke about controlled substances so I imitated them. It wasn't just at my current job, but at every job or school I've been to, people joke about that stuff.

SOme time ago, I joked about egging hourly mgr's house, calling him homeboy, etc. He started joking about murdering me and it went back and forth. Then as the GM was leaving, he said he could hear me from all the way at the back and so could the customers. Then as I was going on break, I was running from the hourly mgr I thought was gonna murder me and slipped and fell. The GM casually mentioned drug test and I jokingly went, "No there's no need for drug test! I have nothing in my system except alcohol!"

At the end, even as the hourly went on joking about kidnapping and killing me and my BF, he seriously bytched about my "reckless attitude." Hmm...are other people who joke around also considered reckless? I doubt that. If there wasn't actually a double standard, why couldn't anyone tell me the difference between how I act and how other people act?