What was the quickest buzzkill to a room full of happy people?

Back when I waited tables, there was a guy walking to his table, he had a massive heart attack,

and hit the floor. EMT said he was gone before he hit the ground. I've never seen a restaurant

go so silent, so quickly. A friend of mine was attending a Christian Pentecostal summer camp

a few years ago, with

some high school students and other adult leaders.

For anyone who's unfamiliar with Pentecostal youth camps, the evening church services

can get pretty lively and charged with emotion.

People being slain in the spirit, speaking in tongues, lots of worship, and confessing sins.

That sort of thing. There were probably

a couple of hundred students, so things might have gotten chaotic. Anyway, my friend and one

of the other adult leaders got pulled on stage to confess sins to the audience. Not sure

who thought this was a good idea, but maybe it wasn't planned. And the other adult leader,

a nice guy in his 20s, newly married, confesses to the packed

auditorium of high schoolers hyped upon Jesus that he used to do the deed with his dog.

The evening service pretty much ended after that.

My company had a pizza party meeting for a particular department.

The scuttle butt was that it was a thank you for a third quarter project completion.

The department of 35 people were excited for the Atter Boys and the pizza. After the lunch,

the shoe dropped. They were all being laid off because even though they finished the project

on time, for this long-time customer, the customer had signed a contract with another company

and was leaving. Unbelievably crap move by management.

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