This is a reminder that we should not judge anyone without having a knowledge of all of the facts. I laughed out loud when I first watched these. However, they do have a very serious message, and it is not about getting your mortgage.
There is a Canadian show called "Just for Laughs" which is on TV and on YouTube and it relies on the fact that we when we don't have all of the information to pull off a large number of practical jokes on people. When we don't have all of the information we imagine or see things not as they are but as we think they are, which leads to some funny situations. Of course, it is only funny because we in the audience are in on the joke, the person who is being judged or to whom it is happening does not see the humour.
We all love a sense of humour and a good practical joke, but only when we are in on it, not the subject of the joke. At the time, if a practical joke is played on us, we may be upset, but as time goes on we begin to see the humour in what has happened.
When I was working a small group of us played many practical jokes on other teachers, and some of them reacted well, but others became angry because they felt we had made fun of them. This was not true, but we soon learned who had a sense of humour and who did not. Have you ever played a practical joke on someone, if so how did they react?
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