Ask Rhonda: The Origin of Wit
Dear Rhonda,
You are so witty and clever with your amusing answers. Do you get your wit from your Mom or Dad? Do you think it is inherited or comes from your environment?
Best wishes,
Truly Interested
Dear Truly Interested,
Whilst I appreciate the compliment, even Helen Keller could have read between the lines on this question. And she could have done it way before she ever met her teacher Anne Sullivan.
I am not sure where exactly I inherited my wit or how much had to do with my environment. Whilst my mother and I have the same sense of humor and my father had a good sense of humor (at least he thought he did), neither my mother nor father are what you would call “witty.” Combine the biological Rhonda cocktail my parents concocted in a fit of passion with my upbringing in northern New Jersey as a skinny, buck-toothed, redheaded, freckle-faced, asthmatic and you do the math on how and why I became so witty. Some might say I had no choice…
Best,
Rhonda
