Traveling? Here’s why you should pack your sense of humor
Did you hear the one about the professor who spent 24 hours trapped in airport hell trying to reach a conference on happiness? It is not a joke. Travel has become absurd enough that humor is now a survival skill, and psychologists say the gap between the trip we are promised and the circus we actually get is exactly the thing we should be laughing at. The interesting part is what laughter actually does for a stranded traveler, and the way experts say to use it that most people get exactly backwards.