In front of the store, black grandfather says to a crowd, "Hey,
   this dude's hysterical! Tell them what you just told me.", as he
   walks into the store with an old white buddy of his. But I felt
   the 'public speaking" pressure building up, and as hard as I
   tried, I couldn't retell a simple two-sentence joke I just made
   up. As the crowd grew irritated with me, I even picked up an
   object to act out the joke. Now the words were coming out, but
   as I was about to tell the punch line, they had all turned away
   and lost all interest. Not a dream, not a nightmare - just in
   the realm of, "Yes, it could happen." :) "