The vegan at my brother's BBQ actually made me drop the dad joke habit

At my brother's place in Austin last month, I cracked my usual 'I'm on a seafood diet, I see food and I eat it' line at the grill. His wife's friend, this quiet guy named Marcus, just looked at me and said 'That joke is why people think dads can't read a room.' He didn't laugh, nobody did, and the silence lasted a full ten seconds. He then asked me if I had any jokes about my own cholesterol, and that got me thinking about why I lean on the same tired stuff anyway. Anyone else had a stranger or friend's guest shut down a joke so hard you actually stopped telling them?

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