When were you in a situation where something struck you as funny, but it was inappropriate to laugh? What did you do to suppress your laughter? Explain the situation.
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
Plenty times.
Attended a friend's wedding. The priest was bald and had a comb-over. A slight breeze kept fluctuating through the church and a lot of loose hair kept straying from a supposed style dance on his head due to the wind. I guess I was the only one who found it funny or I didn't think it was that funny and tried to hold in my laughter which was fairly easy at this point, but the more I tried to hold it in, the funnier it got. The funnier it got, the more effort I had to hold it in and was on a spiral until it became almost unbearable. I kept my cool by breathing deeply in through the nose and out through the mouth while bowing my head down grabbing the bridge of my nose pretending to pray and did not look toward the priest or wedding party at all for the rest of the ceremony.
This has happened quite a lot throughout my life and I guess that's a lot of practice to slightly suppress and divert the inappropriate behavior. This is one of Many stories that come to mind but it's more of "I guess you had to be there" kind of point.
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
Inappropriate Racial-wise.
Saw 2 Asian women at a train station having a conversation. They were obviously not from the same province because they were both struggling to understand each others heavy broken english. I chuckled to myself.
Shame on me
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Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
I was at a mall food-court & got my order of "butter chicken" which is my favorite Indian dish. Piping hot with the sweet smelling steam nicely sitting on a bed of rice.... mmmmmm (I feel like some right now ) Anyway I proceed to sit down at a table and realized I'd like some salt sachets and I go and ask the shop dude for some salt, with him confirming "you would like some salt?" At that time he was in the middle of dishing another customer 's plate and as he said the word "salt", a sizable piece of saliva shot straight from his mouth onto the food of the plate in his hand, don't think he was aware of it. He handed me my salt and I walked back to my table laughing to myself Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Those last two stories were funny, especially the one with those two Asian women talking together in the train station.
I'll contribute a story of my own. I was waiting for the bus on a day where it was raining so much that it seemed like the world was coming to an end. I was under a scaffolding to keep myself dry while I waited for the bus.
The storm drain at the corner of the street was clogged, preventing all that water from the rain from going into the sewer, forming this HUGE drainage puddle.
This lady was waiting (or trying to figure out how ...) to cross the street with her baby that was in the stroller.
I think you know where I'm about to go with this.
A bunch of cars drove by her, all of the drivers doing what they could to avoid driving over this puddle that started to look more and more like a lake. One taxi, however, decided to take a dive into the water by driving through it. The force of the impact created a huge wake, kind of like the one you see in this picture:
The "tidal wave" splashed right onto the baby! And I mean all OVER the baby, the dirty water 'n all. I could see the baby squirming all over the place for a few seconds, trying to remove itself (I couldn't tell of it was a boy or a girl) from the stroller it seemed. None of the water got to the mother, and I don't think she had any clue to what had just happened to her child, especially since the baby wasn't crying. Right after that, the mother was able to cross the street with the stroller, with no idea still to what had just happened to her baby.
Right after the water splash and before they crossed the street, a co-worker turned to me and saw that I wanted to laugh. He asked if I was laughing because of the baby? I said yeah, and we both started laughing out loud. For a second I thought I was the only one who saw that, but the fact that another person saw it, too, and found that to be funny as well, made the whole thing even funnier.
-National
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
My supervisor was showing off at work his new high quality ear-bud earphones one day. Gave me a listen to a partial part some work-out song and when the bass dropped, it was like BOOM! Thumped deep bass with no distortion and the mids and highs were crisp.
He was bobbing his head to his sounds and when people started calling and yelling at him, he didn't hear them as he was zoning out with his new sounding equipment, with a smiling proud (close to arrogant) look on his face.
Serious time he dropped one ear to do some important work with a bud in one ear and the other just hanging. Now after his immediate tasks were done..... He went to pick up his coffee..... and guess what went for a swim . the hanging ear-bud dunked straight into the mug. I turned my head straight away holding in my laughter for dear life, but just imagining the priceless look on his face (which I did not see) just made my withheld burst that much harder to contain. A workmate saw it too and gave the (Nelson from ' The Simpsons') laugh loudly "HA ha" .
This event gave me huge smile for the rest of that week
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
Once, was waiting to get onto a bus with a friend. A few people in front of us. As I stepped into the bus, my friend sez, "press your nose down really hard (flat) and turn around". I pressed my nose flat with my index finger and turned around, was met face to face half a meter apart with a dude with a huge flat nose. He was sitting in the front seat and didn't look at all impressed .I guess you had to be there.
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(I feel like some right now ![[Drool]](graemlins/drool.gif)
) Anyway I proceed to sit down at a table and realized I'd like some salt sachets and I go and ask the shop dude for some salt, with him confirming "you would like some salt?" At that time he was in the middle of dishing another customer 's plate and as he said the word "salt", a sizable piece of saliva shot straight from his mouth onto the food of the plate in his hand, don't think he was aware of it. He handed me my salt and I walked back to my table laughing to myself ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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. the hanging ear-bud dunked straight into the mug. I turned my head straight away holding in my laughter for dear life, but just imagining the priceless look on his face (which I did not see) just made my withheld burst that much harder to contain. A workmate saw it too and gave the (Nelson from ' The Simpsons') laugh loudly "HA ha" . 