Ever have a laughing fit in an inappropriate place?

[WDW Poly Princess]

Oh, I just thought of another one! From high school, again

My drama club was putting on Little Women, and I was in the audience with a few friends, watching the play in between working on stuff behind the scenes. There was a man sitting right in front of us who kept coughing REALLY loudly, and we were starting to think he was just going to fall over and die! For the life of me, I cant remember why we thought this guy was so funny at the time, but within a few minutes, we had been cracking jokes back and forth, and we were sitting there with hands over our mouths, literally shaking from trying to hold our laughter in. When the lights went down at the end of a scene, we expected the audience to applaud, and figured we could go ahead and laugh since the applause would cover the noise, so we all burst out laughing. The only problem was, the curtain opened for the next scene, and nobody had time to applaud, so everyone in the audience heard us laughing. We ran out into the hallway and collapsed onto the floor laughing- we ended up having to sit out there for almost half an hour before we got it under control. The drama teacher wasn't particularly happy with us the next day, but since one of our little group of uncontrolable laughers was her son, she couldn't get too mad

Isnt it sad that the thing that starts all of these laughing sessions usually isnt all THAT funny?

 

[KaraKW]

I burst out laughing in the movie theater while watching "Contact". The ending was so utterly ridiculous, I just couldn't help but laugh and laugh. No one told me to "shhh!", so I guess they all thought it was pretty absurd, too!

 

[one_cat]

I was a groomsman in a wedding. At the front of the church we were supposed to make a right turn and line up in order. Well, the best man had not been to the rehearsal and lined us all up backward. We would have been walking down with a different bridesmaid than we had walked up with - which was funny in itself. AS the bride started walking down the aisle and the audience turned around, the best man hissed "Switch." We all switched places and stood like we had been there the entire time. Many of the audience did a double-take when they looked at the front again. It was too much for me, I had to pinch myself to keep from laughing out loud. Everytime I would get myself under control I would think about it again and would have to stifle the squeaks. It was a very long wedding for me.

 

[KimRaye]

Originally posted by Dream
As for laughing at inappropriate times? Oh yeah...been there! My family has kind of a sick sense of humor when it comes to people falling...makes us break out in fits of laughter!!!

I am sooo there, Dream-wise, with MY Own family! We are some sorry excuses for sick humor!!

When Mom was telling me how Dad fell down the whole flight of basement stairs, leaving shoe-scuff marks way up high, as he had fallen heals over head, I was initially frightened but, She was laughing so hard I lost it!! I tried, briefly, to enlighten my family at future gatherings that this was NOT funny but, to no avail!! Including myself!! Whenever Dad goes near those stairs and ANY noise occurs, we just lose it!! (Mind you, these are notoriously dangerous stairs ~ We're sick I tell you!!)

No matter how serious something was or, could have been, we are laughing hysterically! It's very hard to ask "are you ok?", when you've already started giggling!

Shoulders shaking in Church, at weddings & funerals and, even when hearing someone tell something really awful. (Major nervous tension in my family, I suppose!)

I've been 'shoulder-shaking' just reading all these stories!! shhhh..... I have to be quiet!!

 

[holycow]

Quite a number of years ago a good friend of ours passed away...which was in itself tremendously sad....BUT at her funeral they had a family friend sing a song that he had writtten....This guy is quite famous in Nev. (I had never heard of him before) but when he finished the song he says "Thank you, Thank you very much" He was imitating ELVIS....I lost it then and there....I couldn't get it undercontrol....everyone saw my shoulders shaking as I was sitting close to the front so I had lots of kleenex to make it look like I was crying....
I wanted to die that day! From embarrassment! ...My DH and I still laugh about that one....

Holycow

 

[Mr.MouseFan]

I was sitting in the waiting room at my doctor's office two weeks ago with a bunch of other people when all of the sudden, we all heard this humongous thud. Well, when you go through the first door, there's a pane of glass to your right and another door to the waiting room right beyond the glass. Turns out, this guy didn't see the glass or the door and ended up walking smack into the glass! I immediately had to look at the floor and bite my lip because, unfazed, the man figured out the door, walked in and took a seat like nothing happened. By some strange miracle, everyone else in the room was able to keep their composure until the man got up and went outside to have a cigarette. Right after he left, the whole room cracked up.....rather loudly, I might add....LOL

 

[disnee15]

My Last laughing fit.. hmmm

In band on friday, im 2nd chair and I sit inbetween two boys that have a facination with paper cranes... well one of the paper cranes and they started acting like it was dying and put it on life support... then they made it crashed and used to pencils shock it.. so every two seconds i heard BOOM! .... Then it "died" so they ripped it in half and threw it at one of the other trumpets... that was a enough.. then my band teacher raised her baton and it was time to play.. but we were laughing so hard we couldnt play! Not a good time, my band teacher has a nasty temper!

 

[mamajoan]

Good Catholic girls in church.. ya we always seem to get the giggles.. The more you tried to control the volume.. the more you shook and shuddered in uncontrolled giggle spasms...
God forbid.. you sat directly in front of one of the nuns.....

When I was a kid we sat as a family of 4 in one pew. To avoid disgruntled children, we usually sat, brother, mother, me, dad.. well.. Mom and I were known on many occaisions to get into fits of body shaking giggles.. for no good reason. My dad would glare at us...poke me in the ribs, etc.. then he would Separate MY MOM AND ME.. by sitting between us.. by this time I would be gulping for air.. poor dad had a severe hearing loss, so he usually did not know what we were giggling about.. to be honest..neither did we...
You know going to church has never been the same since my mom passed.. she was a corker...

 

[UrsulasDaBomb]

ROTFLMAO*

 

[Regina]

In my second year in Art School, we had "life drawing" classes, meaning nude models.

After the initial embarassment, you get used to it, but there was one model who liked what he was doing a little too much.

My friend and I had a side view of him, when suddenly a certain body part "moved". At first, I gasped and nudged my friend to see if she saw it. She hadn't. Next thing we know, his "little friend" decides to really go into motion. We were dying.

A different male model was once lying on the floor, when a fly came along. You can guess where it landed and decided to stroll around for awhile. I cracked up.

At funerals, there's the time that my very Italian aunt screams out when my sister and I entered: "Frank, Frank, your nieces from Jersey are here Frank." (Um...he's dead, I don't think he can hear you.)