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Worst Moment When You Could Not Stop Laughing
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There have been loads of situations when (usually working with a mate) when it was impossible to not laugh.
Working for BT we had to put a line in an old peoples home and we were in the wardens office looking at the building plans.
It was Friday and was hairdressers day, from outside office the hairdresser called to the warden that Mable wanted to come in and show her her new haircut. All was fine at this point until she came in and it was the worst haircut I had ever seen, just one look at my mate and that was it.
There was no hiding place and the door was blocked by Mable, the only thing we had was an A3 size plan of the building and we just lifted it up in front of our faces, the paper was shaking and there was an occaisional squeak from one of us, but we just managed to keep a lid on it and recovered.
Exit Mable. Then the hairdresser asked if Gwen could cut her own hair, to which the warden replied "No! Not Gwen you know what happened last time she was given scissors"
That was it, I just went to jelly and fell down on my knees just utterly uncontrollable fits of giggling my mate was crying.
The warden was not impressed but there was no way we could hide what we were laughing at.
Anyone else a bad giggler?
Working for BT we had to put a line in an old peoples home and we were in the wardens office looking at the building plans.
It was Friday and was hairdressers day, from outside office the hairdresser called to the warden that Mable wanted to come in and show her her new haircut. All was fine at this point until she came in and it was the worst haircut I had ever seen, just one look at my mate and that was it.
There was no hiding place and the door was blocked by Mable, the only thing we had was an A3 size plan of the building and we just lifted it up in front of our faces, the paper was shaking and there was an occaisional squeak from one of us, but we just managed to keep a lid on it and recovered.
Exit Mable. Then the hairdresser asked if Gwen could cut her own hair, to which the warden replied "No! Not Gwen you know what happened last time she was given scissors"
That was it, I just went to jelly and fell down on my knees just utterly uncontrollable fits of giggling my mate was crying.
The warden was not impressed but there was no way we could hide what we were laughing at.
Anyone else a bad giggler?
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Was it that funny?
I'm a terrible giggler... and at the most inopportune moments usually..... that's what makes it funnier than it actually is!
However, it's not the best time to get the fit of the giggles. A few people noticed too but nothing was said. It's difficult to not laugh when someone says to you, "she's got an odd shaped mouth hasn't she? Looks like a frog," about someone whom you don't particularly like all that much. To top it all likening the situation to the scene in the bar at Moss Eisley space port in Star Wars made it hard to contain laughter.
When the registrar asked if anyone knew of any impediment, my girlfriend whispered, "shouldn't you raise your hand or something?" Naturally that caused me to chuckle, but I tried to disguise it as a cough.
I should point out that I was invited to the weddding as an afterthought and had in fact been asked if I wanted to attend the week before the wedding took place. His wife took an instant dislike to me so that's part of the reason why I was treated more like the cousin everyone forgets about. Throughout the year before the wedding I'd heard titbits of information about the wedding but I was never asked to get fitted for a suit or invited to the stag party etc. Considering I was at the time 20 and my father's only child, it was a farce from the outset but made more farcical by the +1 causing me to laugh during the ceremony.
Displaying inapproriate behaviour at social occasions is a symptom of some forms of Autism.
Might be best getting that checked out at the Docs
Well, they had a Welsh Methodist preacher in, and it was all sort of fire and brimstone stuff, but in Welsh. My Nain (Welsh Gran) was very upset along with my Dad and his brothers and sisters, but I made the fatal mistake of looking at my brother who'd starting giggling because of the minister. Well, that got me, and then my Mum saw us both and she started. The three of us kept our heads bowed right down all the way through and had to pretend to be sad crying, when in fact we were nearly wetting ourselves. No-one noticed either!
But the behaviour might not have been inappropriate. I remember celebrity Chic Murray's funeral - everyone was laughing in the aisles - especially when Billy Connelly was doing his eulogy. It was the kind of funeral that the deceased had asked for.
My husbands Grandads funeral was the same.
Several grandchildren (all adults) had the giggle.
The worst incident was probably hearing that somebody I knew had a family member just recently died. In my defense it was a group conversation, I wasn't paying full attention and I had just remembered something that happened the previous day.
Other that bursting into fits of giggles during intimate moments with my OH (they are used to it now, and also blames my mother for this family trait), nothing else.
Snap but it was my partners grandma, isn't it awful, you feel so bad but can't stop yourself!
we also both had a fit of the giggles when we got married as we struggle to say the words
Just wow
As the mother of an autistic child I suggest that laughing at inappropriate times happens to most people- the massive majority are neuro typical
Seems these days everything is a symptom of autism- which is a massive disservice to the autistic
think im good i was 17 at the time cant remember what set me off, my first funeral and all the seriousness of it i suppose i just started laughing and couldnt stop, i loved my gran loads she would have found it hilarious:D
If you dont laugh you cry i chose to laugh
Exactly. I think laughing at funerals is probably more widespread than people might think and is one of the human responses to very stressful situations. Not deemed socially 'appropriate', but not unusual. It does not indicate that the person laughing is amused - more that they are on the verge of hysteria and under emotional strain.
I attended a church christening service once with a fairly large family group. The church was packed as several children were being christened.
It was the kind of service where congregation members get up at the front and sing or do a reading. An ancient little lady and man got up to sing a song. They were 'harmonising' but neither of them really had it any longer and their high quavery disharmonising was somewhat amusing, even though I knew it was heartfelt.
I was just wincing to myself and thinking "Blimey, that really does sound a bit rough" when I detected a tremor in the pew on which I was sitting. I couldn't understand why the whole pew was shaking until I looked to my right and spotted three of my sister-in-laws literally shaking and crying with laughter (they are some of the worst inappropriate gigglers ever). That set my OH off and I just couldn't hold it any more. I managed not to guffaw out loud, but at one point a little wimpering noise escaped which set me off again.. It was moritfying, my eyes were streaming and my nose was running and I could only find one old tissue to try and cover my shame.....
Can never tire of this golden moment in ITV's the Chase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmwGFX5pgXw
No-one dare laugh but I was absolutely bursting, it seemed to go on forever. We couldn't even leave the room because the parrot wasn't allowed to get out.