Darn You, justamom! (Has This Ever Happened to You?)

carnation · #1 09-12-2002, 03:27 PM

Recently, justamom and I were discussing the difficulty of ordering party pictures online because the pictures aren't very sharp! ...I said that in looking at the Bid Day shots, I could hardly tell which girl was my daughter and she said once she actually ordered some she thought were of her daughter--got them back and they were somebody else!! LOL!!!

I started thinking about that while I was giving my class a quiz today--I was picturing JAM opening those shots and realizing who they weren't--and started snickering. I tried to control it, it got worse, and tears started running down my face. Finally I just gasped out to 25 wide-eyed freshmen,"Sorry...something funny happened in the hall before I came in..."

Has anybody else absolutely cracked up in an embarrassing place?

MoxieGrrl · #2 09-12-2002, 03:59 PM

Hehe....I would have liked to have seen you cracking up, carnation

Seeing people laughing makes me laugh too

Yes, I started laughing hysterically at work one day to the point where I start to sound like a chipmunk. It's all because of the Alyssa Milano 1980's workout video review on seanbaby.com.

Like your situation, I just couldn't explain it. It wouldn't have been funny anyone else. But it sure was to me

amycat412 · #3 09-12-2002, 04:19 PM

My boyfriend and I were at the video store Tuesday night--and not that that is an embarrassing place, but the people in line with us seemed to think they were in church, everyone was SO solemn and quiet.

And we're not even sure what set us off, but we both started laughing so hard we couldn't even breathe....seriously, you know when you're laughing so much your sides hurt? And the other people in line and the clerk at the counter just kept giving us dirty looks.

And for the life of us, we can't remember what set us off.

AOIIBrandi · #4 09-12-2002, 06:19 PM

I was in church one day with my mom...

We have this family that has like 10 kids. It seems like every time I see the lady she is pregnant again. Anyway their last name is Pruitt. When the priest was getting ready for communion the cruett got clinked against something else, and he said we need another CRUETT. I thought he said we need another PRUITT (we also were baptising their newest in church that day). I just about died, so when my mom wanted to know what could possibly be so funny and I told her and I thought we were going to have to leave. My mom and I too this day can't think about it without laughing to the point of not being able to breathe and crying.

justamom · #5 09-12-2002, 06:37 PM

AOPIIBrandi-When the priest was getting ready for communion the cruett got clinked against something else, and he said we need another CRUETT. I thought he said we need another PRUITT (we also were baptising their newest in church that day). I just about died,

ROFLMAO!!! HONESTLY!!!

We have one of those families!!!

Carnation, I KNOW what you mean, but lately, I'll be reading something on GC so I only embarrass myself in front of my Hubby and son!

I can't tell you some of the things, but one time in a restuarant with my kids, when they were like 5 and 7, I started thinking about
Fuzzy Wussie was a bear. (how sad it was that) Fuzzie Wussie had no hair...I was dying laughing and could NOT explain it to ANYone! When stuff like THAT happens, you KNOW you have to get out with grownups more often!!!

shultzz · #6 09-12-2002, 06:46 PM

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Originally posted by amycat412
My boyfriend and I were at the video store Tuesday night--and not that that is an embarrassing place, but the people in line with us seemed to think they were in church, everyone was SO solemn and quiet.

And we're not even sure what set us off, but we both started laughing so hard we couldn't even breathe....seriously, you know when you're laughing so much your sides hurt? And the other people in line and the clerk at the counter just kept giving us dirty looks.

And for the life of us, we can't remember what set us off.

Boyfriend huh? I guess that means Hawaii was a success.

KillarneyRose · #7 09-12-2002, 06:49 PM

The Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Date: circa 1975
The Event: My elementary school's pageant "A Year of Holidays"

There I was, one of three second graders chosen to sing one of the Thanksgiving songs. Me and the other two "Indians" were dressed to the nines in our big brown mens T shirts that were cut into fringe along the bottom and braids with feathers sticking out of them.

We stepped up to the front of the stage, the lights dimmed, the spotlight trained on us and the crowd settled into an awed silence as we began to sing.....

Come let's play we're big tall Indians creeping everywhere
Through the woods and thickest forest looking for a bear
We are hungry for some bearmeat Hi Hi Ho Hi Hi Ho!
Bearmeat good and we must find some Hi Hi Ho Hi Hi Ho!

Well, actually, just the two other Indians sang. I don't know if it was nerves or the realization that we were about to perform a really stupid song, but I erupted into a laughing fit. We're talking hysterical, tears running down my face, my stomach hurts, I can't stop LAUGHTER! Amazingly though, as soon as the song ended, so did the laughter and I quietly returned to my spot in the chorus so that the Christmas people could take center stage.

But the doody hit the fan when we got back to our classroom. Right in front of the whole class, my blue cotton-candy haired witch of a teacher announced, "Boys and girls, you will all stand up and thank Tracy for ruining the pageant". And the evil little brats DID!

justamom · #8 09-12-2002, 07:33 PM

Dang Killarneyrose-you have the FUNIEST stories,be it accident prone-inlaws and now memorable performances!

rubyrose · #9 09-12-2002, 11:39 PM

I love your stories! I am so glad to know that I am not the only one this kind of thing happens to. I have quite a few things that crack me up at the most inopportune times. Here is one of my favorites:

I am the oldest of 3 sisters very close in age. When we were in high school, my father, a professor, gave a party for a bunch of his graduate students. My sisters and I were in the kitchen at the time of the party while everyone else was in the great room. We were imitating Bruce Springsteen singing his latest song at the time, and each one of us was taking a turn doing our impression of Bruce. It was my youngest sister's turn, and she let loose with her best Springsteen imitation. Oh yeah, she had the gravelly voice going and the moves happening. Right in the middle of her rendition, one of the grad students, a really cute guy, walked into the kitchen, caught a few seconds of her performance, and said, "Very, very good!" She stopped dead, and we all just gasped. He was polite to us of course, but we were all rendered speechless. Then he refilled his drink and went back into the party. At that point, we busted out laughing so hard that we had to go outside not to interrupt the party and totally embarass our parents.

The 3 of us have not lived near other in recent times, but when we do see each other, this memory comes back up at the most inopportune times. It has been known to happen at the Thanksgiving dinner table in the middle of the meal. The three of us start laughing again about this as if it just happened yesterday especially if one of us sings a few bars of the song. When we fall into hysterical laughter, our husbands and children just look at each other and ask what our problem is. Our parents of course tell everyone that we giggled our way through childhood.

Dionysus · #10 09-15-2002, 07:36 PM

I assumed this guy next to me in a workshop had tourette's or something. He was blinking his eyes and had vocal tics. Alone that wasn't funny at all. But, he was blurting things out in Japanese, quietly, I was the only who heard it. I couldn't help but laugh, people were looking at me like I was crazy because they didn't know what I was laughing about.

SigkapAlumWSU · #11 09-16-2002, 03:58 AM

When I was about 14 or so, a friend of mine spent the night with me. Somehow we had found a Sara Lee cheescake in the freezer and we decided it would be a good idea to sneak it into the room in the middle of the night and eat it. Well, it was about 1am and we were starting to get the giggles. So we started to eat the cheescake, but we couldn't stop giggling. It never occured to us to stop eating the cheescake until we calmed down. It got to the point where we had to stand with our backs to each other and try to eat that way. For years afterward, I could not eat cheescake without rolling on the floor with laughter. To this day, I have trouble eating a slice of cheescake without giggleing, it takes so much concentration. And when I try to tell people about it, no one seems to understand at all.