When is the most inappropriate time you've ever laughed?

Born lippy · 23/12/14 - 09:07

All my life I've found myself laughing hysterically in situations when I shouldn't - at bad news, for example, or someone showing me their artwork, or on stage in a school play I once started laughing so much I cried and fell off the stage!

Know that sounds awfully cruel but it's like a physical thing I genuinely can't control it but do try desperately to hide it - not easy, I have a very loud noticeable laugh $:\$

My ex used to laugh post coitally haha it would set me off.. He assured me it wasn't personal........

It's all well n good as a kid but now I'm trying to decide what job to get and several career options are immediately ruled out because I know I'd laugh when I shouldn't

Is it just me....??

vierte · 23/12/14 - 09:16

Usually when someone's telling me someone's died or when they go into details about what a horrific death it was. I've laughed at a few funerals and memorials so always tend to sit at the back now.

Croctacus · 23/12/14 - 09:20

During my wedding.

I ended up on my hands and knees laughing to the point of crying, mascara all down mty face.

Cosin · 23/12/14 - 09:23

Last time I laughed inappropriately was when this flustered guy approached me in the sauna as I had picked up his towel by mistake and was using it as a headrest. I think he wanted to hit me as I swapped it back damp with my nice dry one.

idlewilde · 23/12/14 - 09:24

I laughed during my grandmother's funeral last year. A full blown Catholic affair, after the communion wine had been given out, the priest sat in his chair on the altar and closed his eyes. Next thing he was being shaken by one of his ministers to wake him up. Very funny. My gran, bless her, would have thought it quite the scandal.

eugenespeed · 23/12/14 - 09:27

I laughed during my sisters wedding.

I was 10 though.

Porcupine · 23/12/14 - 09:30

During my sisters school concert. I am going back a very long time !!

Basically she used to play the piano and she had been practicing forever and it was a very serious affair. Everyone was dressed up nicely and the stage was set. But then the trumpet player came on and played a duff note. My Mum who was sat next to me gave me a look that only she can do .... and that was it, I couldn't stop laughing. I was trying to hold it in, which made it worse. My Mum was then in hysterics and the audience around us kept staring at us. It was mortifying. I hope the poor boys parents weren't near to us.

Born lippy · 23/12/14 - 09:33

Oh my God your stories are so funny :-D has anyone ever noticed, and scolded for laughing?

I laughed at a job interview once, was so nervous. I looked a total crazed moron, but seeing their confused serious faces just made it funnier at the tine! I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.. Had to be escorted out..Didn't get the job 😞

TWS · 23/12/14 - 09:34

most of the way through my grans funeral

Born lippy · 23/12/14 - 09:34

Porcupine wrote: »

During my sisters school concert. I am going back a very long time !!

Basically she used to play the piano and she had been practicing forever and it was a very serious affair. Everyone was dressed up nicely and the stage was set. But then the trumpet player came on and played a duff note. My Mum who was sat next to me gave me a look that only she can do .... and that was it, I couldn't stop laughing. I was trying to hold it in, which made it worse. My Mum was then in hysterics and the audience around us kept staring at us. It was mortifying. I hope the poor boys parents weren't near to us.

Hahahahaahah this is one of the worst hahaha

Born lippy · 23/12/14 - 09:40

Duff notes are the worst, I don't know why, the harder they are trying the funnier they are!

did anyone see the x factor judges houses audition with Andrea few years back? That last note? I almost got a six pack laughing, watched it so many times

Born lippy · 23/12/14 - 09:43

this is the one!

Mrs O: "that last note - was it meant to be like that?"

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ALhiez2DOa8

BastardBeaver · 23/12/14 - 10:32

Not me but my dad, at his mothers funeral when she was off to be cremated, he looked to the side and saw a No Smoking sign and burst out laughing.

EvieJ · 23/12/14 - 10:41

idlewilde wrote: »

I laughed during my grandmother's funeral last year. A full blown Catholic affair, after the communion wine had been given out, the priest sat in his chair on the altar and closed his eyes. Next thing he was being shaken by one of his ministers to wake him up. Very funny. My gran, bless her, would have thought it quite the scandal.

Me too, at my fathers funeral. First I'd ever been to (it was a long time ago). At the end people were queuing up to shake our hands at the pew. Id never seen it happen before Grief, nerves, it started and I shook each hand through giggles. Still feel really bad about it now. :-(

Born lippy · 23/12/14 - 11:34

Oh dear... You guys really put the 'fun' into 'funerals' :-\

Evie I can just imagine that is the kind of thing I'd do, sorry you felt awful after but it is involuntary!

It's a shame how sombre they often are , I prefer ones which are like a celebration of the person's life though these are strangely more emotional.

I know I would be happier to think of my relatives smiling at my funeral than crying n grieving ..

That no smoking sign story was a right corker!

xorosetylerxo · 23/12/14 - 11:37

I'm really bad for laughing at funerals because I always think about the fun times i had with them

Or our school did an assembly for the 2 minute silence for the year 10 and 11's and they played the worst version of that song they play after the silence it was dreadful whoever it was was well off tune

Wee Tinkers · 23/12/14 - 11:52

At our nursing home xmas party a resident's father was telling me a very sad story about someone dying in horrific circumstances. In the middle of it I became very aware of the snowman hair band I was wearing.

I pictured what I must look like and the thought of my sombre and sincere face with the snowmen bobbing about maniacally with my solemn nods was too much for me.

I did try to keep a lid on it and didn't laugh out but I must have looked like I was simultaneously having a stroke and a seizure trying to contain myself.

Born lippy wrote: »

Oh my God your stories are so funny :-D has anyone ever noticed, and scolded for laughing?

I laughed at a job interview once, was so nervous. I looked a total crazed moron, but seeing their confused serious faces just made it funnier at the tine! I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.. Had to be escorted out..Didn't get the job 😞

I did that once. All down to nerves. Hysterical nerves. I even at one point slapped my thigh.

I have never slapped my thigh while laughing in my life!

Oddly I got the job. It was between me and one other. Liked my "confidence" apparently.

[Deleted User] · 23/12/14 - 12:24

Another funeral one. At a family friend's funeral many, many years ago my late dad started singing a hymm a few seconds before everyone else. That was enough to set me off and the more he told me to stop laughing the worse it got. I hope the people who were sitting behind thought my shaking shoulders were down to my distress.

newyorkcitygirl · 23/12/14 - 12:27

A friends wedding as they were giving their vows.

kitty86 · 23/12/14 - 12:30

I can't help but laugh at people when they fall over or hurt themselves in some way, I will rush over and ask if they are ok and if they are I get the giggles. I've done it with strangers, family, partner. It's a terrible thing but I just can't help it.

Mrscee · 23/12/14 - 12:41

Seen a guy walk into a pole once while waving at somebody in a shop. I thought those type of things happen on tv .Me and my daughter were holding on to ourselves, trying not to laugh too loud and tears all down our face.

vodkamargarine · 23/12/14 - 14:36

Eons ago I was on Jury Service and it came to the verdict bit. We had been there for over 2 weeks and it had been a very intense case. To my horror, as the judge started to ask the foreman what our verdict was I felt an uncontrollable urge to laugh! I was mortified! I had to sit with my elbows on the little shelf thing in front of me and put my hands over my mouth as I just couldn't control it, there was these poor s*ds (although they did deserve it!) being told they were going to prison and there was me p***ing myself laughing! I think the tension must have finally got to me!

EvieJ · 23/12/14 - 14:57

vodkamargarine wrote: »

Eons ago I was on Jury Service and it came to the verdict bit. We had been there for over 2 weeks and it had been a very intense case. To my horror, as the judge started to ask the foreman what our verdict was I felt an uncontrollable urge to laugh! I was mortified! I had to sit with my elbows on the little shelf thing in front of me and put my hands over my mouth as I just couldn't control it, there was these poor s*ds (although they did deserve it!) being told they were going to prison and there was me p***ing myself laughing! I think the tension must have finally got to me!

Ooh not a good time !! :-)

Luckyyem · 23/12/14 - 15:08

I always laugh at bad news. I tend to be laughing with tears streaming down my face, I think its my coping mechanism. Doesn't make it any easier though. I'm lucky that my loved ones know its my knee jerk reaction, mum says I have done it all of my life.

I think definitely, without doubt the worse time was when my brother died. I was 15, he was 14. The police had just arrived at our house to break the news. My mum - understandably - let out a noise that I had never heard before, or have since and I burst out laughing. Obviously I was devastated and the laughing very quickly gave way to sobs. I have carried that guilt for almost 20yrs, although I still laugh at inappropriate times

Mandark · 23/12/14 - 15:30

As a little kid, I once giggled at the naked people on telly. Unfortunately it was World at War on TV and the naked people were Jews being led to their deaths!! Didn't go down well at all especially with the older relatives who'd fought in the war!!

Mandark · 23/12/14 - 15:37

newyorkcitygirl wrote: »

A friends wedding as they were giving their vows.

I've done that one too when a mate who was a total lad was getting married. Didn't seem real!!

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