My friends have a tendency to take everything I say very literally.  I realize that I tend to say things with a straight, stolid expression on my face and even when I joke it has a dry delivery, but some things you have to take as a joke.  I used to tell them I was interested in working for an ad agency, online or otherwise and they’d tell everyone I was already working in Chicago marketing online.  Did they need to tell everyone I was working a job I didn’t actually have yet?  I used to kid around when I had a sales job and when get a low paycheck and say I had at least earned enough to buy a doorknob.  I have no idea why I thought that was funny, but I did and I went and said it.  So leave it to my friends to keep asking me what kind of doorknob did I buy and had I attached it to a door yet.  Can’t anyone take a joke these days?  Or how about just a dry, sarcastic comment?  I realize what I say might be too sly for some people, but you can’t seriously think I’m going to go and buy a doorknob.