Ha Ha Happy Birthday to YOU!
YES! I LOVE IT! What a w o n d e r – full time I had going to get my soup/salad at Olive Garden Restaurant this evening!
I was wearing my ‘ME!’ t-shirt. At the entrance were a captive audience of about 20 teenagers waiting to be seated. I walked up and announced: ‘IT’S ME!’ I got such a wonderful response – they just LOOKED, and STARED! [I was SO honored! It's the teenage way! I was thrilled! ... except one teen did laugh and say to his buddy - 'guess you didn't get it, did you? ME, Question Mark?' ahahaha I also got a couple wide eyes and almost an eye roll! I'm smiling, I LOVE teenagers!
Then I went to sit at the almost empty, smoke-free bar to get my soup/salad. A 'Senior' buddy of mine was there! So we got to exchange Hullos! then he had to leave.
Then a man asked if he could have the seat next to mine nearest the crowded lobby. No problem. He noted his wife was shopping and he had the 'buzzer' device with him due to a 45 min wait. He noted it was his wife's birthday.
I said: 'Oh, it's ashame, they don't sing their birthday song here anymore.' He said he knew. I told him I was a Laughter Wellness Leader, and how I had sun the HA HA Happy Birthday song to two women the other day. I said, if you want, I can come over and sing it to your wife, but I don't want to push myself on you.
He laughed and asked me more about what I did.
I described it and told him, maybe he could sing the HA HA Happy Birthday song to his wife! Then his 'buzzer' device went off after 5 minutes! No 45 minute wait! He had to call his wife, since she had gone to the plaza to shop.
Five minutes later he comes back to me at the bar (I'm eating salad with a mouthfull!) and says: 'If I bring my wife in to you, will you sing to her?'
What a silly question! I'm such a HAM! 'YES!' I said! 'No problem!'
Five minutes later, in he comes with his wife and son. I pull my chair out from the bar, sit facing his wife and say: "OK, try to stay with me now, this is a very complex version of the Happy Birthday song. I'm going to try to remember all the words.' She nodded with a smile.
I started at full volume: HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA ... finished with 'and many more HA HA style' - then the grande finale' of VERY GOOD VERY GOOD YEAH! with a WEEEEE! as I brought my arms down. [the husband even HA HA HA'd along WITH me!]
She said to her husband: ‘Wow! You should pay for her drink after THAT!’ [note - I just had an iced tea - I don't 'drink']
As they walked away, I heard him say to his wife: ‘You meet the MOST INTERESTING people at the bar.’
LAUGH OUT LOUD!
HA HA Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Smiling after a wonderful evening of MIRTH-FULL MINGLING and SINGING
Live Life! Laugh Often!
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