Your Face Won't Crack If You Smile

I Named This Book “Your Face Won’T Crack If You Smile” Because That’S The Story Of My Life. I Was Born And Raised In The Chicago Area And At 16 Years Of Age My Friends Started Calling Me Smiley. A Name That I Was Tagged With Because I Never Smiled. I Was Told That If I Smiled My Face Would Crack. As A Result I Spent Many Hours Training Myself To Look Beyond All The Sadness In The World And Twist Every Sad Situation Into Something Funny If It Was Possible. I Read Many Books On Humor To See How They Think And Then ...Try To Imitate Their Way Of Thinking. I Found That Most People Are Basically Funny And Many Things I Write About Hinge On Listening To Them Say Funny Things And Not Realize It. Being A Good Listener Has Provided Me With A Whole Fi Le Cabinet Full Of Humor. After An Operation A Friend Caused Me To Laugh And It Was Painful. When I Told Him It Hurt When He Made Me Laugh His Reply Was “When I Say Something Funny Don’T Listen.” Many Years Have Passed Now And My Face Never Cracked. I Wrote A Humor Column For A New Paper A Number Of Magazine Articles And I Was Guest Speaker At A Number Of Functions Because Of My Humor And Not My Smarts. My Whole Life Changed For The Better Because I Was Called Smiley.