# Inappropriate laughter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265 "2013-03-29T15:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265/41 "2013-04-02T02:25:58Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > The back pew had a bunch of little old men sitting on it and when another one came to sit down there the end of the pew just fell off - and the whole pew collapsed and all the little old men slid down to the end on top of each other. > > and > > There was plenty of room for those old men to move to another safer place, but Nooooo, they wanted to sit there. So it served them right that when the family was called out for one last prayer while the casket was shut that when they came back in and we had the usual “Will the congregation rise” thing…then sat back down, well the pew gave out again under them and once more they went _bump bump bump_ down on top of each other. > > and > > So I told the story - and like I do when I’m with people, I sort of acted it out while I told it. As I got to the point where the little old men went “bump bump bump” for the second time down that broken pew, I tripped and reached out my hand to steady myself. Of course it would be that what I reached out to steady myself on was the end of Gramma’s casket - and it was in the middle of this big open space in the church foyer…on a wheeled thing…and we discovered as the casket slowly rolled away from me that those wheels were not locked. Uh oh. > > As Gramma rolled off, my arm (my hand was still on the casket) was stretched out and I found myself falling slowly forward in a somewhat graceful manner until with a thump I was full length on the floor on my stomach, in a skirt (yep - real graceful here)…watching everyone as they watched Gramma roll towards the open side door of the church lobby. It was very quiet in that church lobby. No one moved. Finally, one of my cousins yelled out “Well, somebody **STOP** her or she’s gonna miss her own funeral!” I was crying real tears for quite a while reading that. LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Noodles\_Fellicini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Noodles\_Fellicini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noodles_Fellicini)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265/42 "2013-04-02T02:31:35Z")
Not a funeral, but still inappropriate. I was with my mother and sister at the symphony, acting appropriately and formally adult. Partway into the second piece, the soloist walks onto the stage and sits down in a chair directly in front of and facing the conductor. She then proceeds to sit there, staring at the conductor basically at crotch-level, hands folded primly in her lap, as the music plays on. Minutes pass and she sits there, completely immobile. More minutes pass, there is a pause in the music, it starts up again and yet she does not sing. All we can think about is this soloist. Why did she come out so early, is she really a soloist, is she ever going to sing? More minutes, and then, finally, she stirs – one hand slides out of her lap and dangles limply at her side. My sister stage-whispers across my mother to me, in her best David Letterman, “She’s HYP-MO-TIZED.” We lost it. We had to take turns scurrying to the lobby to stop laughing just to set each other off again when we sat back down. We haven’t gone to the symphony together since then which is just as well as they probably wouldn’t let us in. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265/43 "2013-04-02T02:31:57Z")
I was at a school information night for students and parents who were interested in joining out ourdoor ed. group. The (new) principal of one of the schools got up to give a speech which is when I found out she had significant difficulty with pronouncing _r_. Everything was going OK until I whispered to my friend next to me: “Should we ask her to _pause_ _welease Wodger_?” At least three people had to leave the auditorium. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265/44 "2013-04-02T02:59:58Z")
Ladies and germs, I believe the phenomenon ya’ll are referring to is known as the [Giggle Loop.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdYM1nMmuc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265.md?page=2)