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So my nephew was born with issues with his lungs, he's only a few months old and has to be kept on a mixture of oxygen from a bottle for a while. They said it isn't a permanent thing and he'll eventually be able to breathe on his own as he grows up. (I'm not fully sure exactly what he has I just know this is the case.)
I'm quite a sarcastic person, I love a good dark joke and I'm always looking for ways to subvert peoples expectations in a comedic manner.
Anyway, we're at a family dinner, it's the first time we've met up as the extended family since long before the pandemic. All of my cousins were flocking over to my nephew in his chair next to my sister, giving him all the attention a cute baby with breathing tubes is going to get.
One of them said to my sister:
"So how long is he going to be dependent on oxygen then?"
And I just couldn't help myself and chime in:
"His whole life."
Everyone looked at me with that stare, you know the one, completely not understanding the joke that we're all dependent on oxygen. I eventually got a moment to explain the joke to my sister, who laughed with me about it but yeah, lets just say I wasn't very popular today.
TL;DR I made a dark joke about my nephew's breathing condition, nobody got it.
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