The very unexpected...

I need to share this one and it's absolutely true:

Last week some friends and I were discussing humor - what makes something funny.  We decided that a major element was the unexpected.  So...I was reading Luanne Rice's 'What Matters Most'.  It's a smarmy thing about a nun and romance and visions.  There is a long story as to why I was persevering with it.
I got to the part where one of the protagonists is pregnant and hiding in a freezing cold attic.  She begins to pray:
"Help me," she wept. "Mother of God, please help me..."
Holy Crap if help didn't come.
 
And then, without missing a beat, she collects the narrative and carries on.

Okay.  It really was the unexpected and it did make me laugh.