Mine happened in court in front of a judge…it was terrible.
My best friend Shelley died three years ago, and I inherited her two daughters. The youngest girl, Joy was caught stealing a bra and undies set from a store. I had to attend the court hearing with her. The courtroom was filled…and the Judge had her stand in front of everyone and explain what she took and in DETAIL how she did it. The Judge asked questions like the size of the garments, the color, if there was lace, and if the panties were a g-string…etc. anything to embarrass her. The stunned look of horror on Joy’s face did me in. The more the Judge kept asking her questions, the funnier it got. I couldn’t stop laughing. I was asked to leave.
About 10 years ago, my mom came with me to my piano recital. We were all sitting around my teacher’s living room, listening to one of the kids tickle the ivories when one of my teacher’s cats strode through the room. My teacher would always have tea and cake for after the recital laid out on a table in the corner. Well, the cat sniffed out the cream intended for the tea, and hopped up and started licking it right out of the cup. My mom and I were the only ones who saw it and we started to giggle. The cat was just lapping the stuff up and we were trying so hard to be quiet because we didn’t want to be rude. But we could hear the slurping and it was just hysterical.
My teacher noticed us and was soon shooting us dagger eyes but we just couldn’t stop the giggles. All of a sudden she realized what we were laughing at and with a look of horror that made us bust a gut, she leaped up and tackled the cat. I felt bad for the kid whose song we interrupted but lord almighty it was hilarious.
Another case of the giggles that happened at a bad time was last summer. My friend and I were taking a philosophy course that we just hated with a passion. It was 3 hours a day for 3 weeks and it was pure torture.
About the middle of the second week we were sitting waiting for the professor to show up. We started daydreaming about how nice it would be to be able to just go home. We started talking about how it would be so great if the prof came in and said he was sick and class was cancelled. We were coming up with possible illnesses when the prof came in…looking like death. I whispered to my friend that he didn’t look well, and he announced “Class is cancelled, I’m too sick to stay”.
I lost it right there. He was telling us about whatever was wrong with him but I didn’t hear it because I was having a complete fit. I just couldn’t stop laughing. My friend kept poking me to tell me to shut up but that just made me laugh harder. The poor guy probably wondered why I found his sickness so funny.
When I was a lad, my brother and I got the giggles every Sunday at lunch without fail. We would just look at each other and start laughing. My mom would get mad and make us go to our room where we would continue to laugh. This went on for about two months. I can’t remember a single reason why. One day we just made eye contact and that was it.
In driver’s ed. I was sitting beside a friend. It was the class part. The instructor made a really bad joke and everyone laughed but me and my friend got the giggles… Long after everyone stopped laughing we were both trying to hold it in. You know… shaking, sweating, twitching… So flash forward 5 minutes later. The instructor is talking about car crashes and is showing a pile up. He’s talking about the people that died and my friend lets out an ear splitting snort and we both start cracking up. We couldn’t keep it in any longer. Everyone thought we were heartless jerks.
Oh I’ve thought of another one. I found out a friend had taken an overdose. So I took him to the hospital. While we were in the waiting room waiting (well duh!) for the doctor we kept making each other laugh, until we were finally just in fits of giggles.
Whenever I’m undergoing an unusually large amount of stress, I tend to laugh hysterically. I’m almost at the end of a big project at work, and someone emailed me asking for something. I attached what she was asking for and emailed back “Do you want fries with that??” I was laughing so hard I almost fell off my chair. I was nearly delirious (sp?) - I could hardly hit the send button. It wasn’t that funny, but damn, it made me laugh.
I went to the LA Philharmonic with my father, brother and guy I was seeing at the time. It was a Saturday nite, which at the Dorothy Chandeler Pavilion means that is the day you dress up to hear the orchestra which means it seems to be a lot more music snobs at the place. Well the final piece was a new modern piece which was very discordant. Not a style that I like. So I am sitting there listening to this piece when I start hearing bits of cartoon music. It was so funny that I got the giggles. I tried to keep it in, no snorting, but a little bit of air would escape from me throughout the music. During the applause I finally just burst out in loud guffaws. I got some evil looks from the patron around me. Plus I embarrassed the men with me. I have always wondered if the composer put in the cartoon music on purpose and if he would have been offended by my laughter or flattered that I “got” it.
This giggles during a concert was worse than the Seinfeld episode cause I was actually laughing at the music.
When I was about 17, I got runner up in the Miss Riley Days Pageant. The finalists had to go to all the boring James Whitcomb Riley events throughout the festival. One morning, we all had to go to this dusty old basement room and listen to an original record of him speaking. It was all crackly and weird, and when his voice came on we all just started cracking up. There were about 20 stuffy old people in there, and they were very serious about the recording. Haha. We were supposed to be upstanding young ladies representing our town, and we had to be asked to leave. It was terrible, but so funny.
