How to be witty

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A word of caution; nothing is less witty than trying to be witty. Not fair, but true.

So true. I tried as hard as I could over a long period and to my frustration I was unable to make anyone laugh so I gave up.

A year after giving up trying to be funny I started going to a new school. One of my early days there a random girl approached me and I had no clue what to say to her so I said the first random thing that popped into my mind and she loved it. From then on whenever I´m meeting new people I try to come across as funny(not too friendly to everyone because many people take advantage of over friendliness but funny ) most of the times I succed.

It´s probably got to do with how confident you are with those who are about to hear the joke and yourself. Last year I was with my best friend and I some sort of joke that related chewing gum and energetic diet bars, she loved it . A few days after she was with some of her friends I barely knew(she was a girl and so were her friends and I tried to hang out with guys whenever it was possible) I did the exact same joke but I was so worried about how I was coming across to her friends that I ended up coming across as a weirdo. I guess it also has to do with luck.

Some of these posts reminded me of a time where I walked into the office at my high school and said I needed a new ID card (I'm sure if it's like that where you live but down here we gotta have 'em on lanyards or clipped to your shirt). They asked me what happened to it. I said that I lost it somewhere. And when they asked me to trace my steps, I said "It's not like I know this place like the back of my head!" I turned around and when my back was facing them, they saw the ID was clipped to the hair on the back of my head.

Not exactly sure that was what was said, that being 7 years ago. It sounded funnier that this. And there were laughs. So point being is you don't gotta laugh if you don't wanna.

I've been told I'm witty. I have no idea how I do it, it just comes out.

Avoid advice from this board.

I feel witty. Oh so witty. I feel witty, and pretty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn’t me today.

I hope you don't feel that you need to be witty in order to keep a conversation going; all you have to do is be an active listener (though that in itself presents its own challenges). Admittedly being witty might help if you want to be attractive at the same time.