jokes and appropriate "comebacks"

fasteddie · Butterfly Joined: Mar 10, 2006 Posts: 12

I should tell you about a unique problem I have in my office. I am a male but work in an office with three women, and I get besieged with comments from visitors like "how do you put up with all these women", or "here's something for all you women..... and men", just to name a couple. There are hundreds of these things I am told, and though I can identify them as being humor, I am terrible at knowing exactly what I should say. Sometimes I just make a silly smile or giggle. I'm always scared to try to make a smart remark, or "comeback". I have attempted this, and sometimes I get loud laughter, but this sometimes how people react when something shocking is said, be it bad or good. Oddly enough, there was another young male worker in the office who faced the same thing, and I noticed his response was often an outright admission of failure, saying "I can't think of anything smart to say", or "I can't think of a comeback". Of course matters are made only much worse when I have AS. What do you people think about this?