# Things that get you laughed at by neighbors and loved ones **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837 "2001-05-18T16:17:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837/1 "2001-05-18T16:17:55Z")
Having your wife walk in on you in the kitchen singing the New Kids on the Block song “Hangin’ Tough” to yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837/2 "2001-05-19T01:38:15Z")
And rightly so! Christ, what were you thinking? And post more oftem, dammit. Ya friggin’ slacker. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837/3 "2001-05-19T01:52:50Z")
Almost a year later, and I still get teased for [the cat-box incident](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28606). ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837/4 "2001-05-19T02:34:41Z")
Great mental image! Yea, that’s funny. What in the hell were you doing that for?!?!?! Did you expect people _not_ to laugh at you? ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837/5 "2001-05-19T03:16:59Z")
I’m almost ashamed to be posting in the same thread as you, **Mullinator** ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837/6 "2001-05-19T06:46:58Z")
[li] Wearing a polka-dotted plastic shower cap.[/li][li] Enjoying Spam luncheon meat and Easy Cheese.[/li][li] Talking to myself in a normal coversational tone when I shop alone.[/li][li] Making snorting noises when I laugh really hard.[/li] Being very clumsy. (The most recent incident involved me falling out of a small plane —while it was still on the ground, of course!— because I got my foot tangled in the cord that hooks the headphones to the dashboard, or cockpit, or whatever the heck it is. Wow, that hurt.) ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-get-you-laughed-at-by-neighbors-and-loved-ones/65837/7 "2001-05-19T08:28:12Z")
This didn’t happen to me, but to my dad’s boss, and has the smell of a joke enhanced by being told in the first person, but for what it’s worth . . . "One of my brother’s favorite things to do growing up was giving me ‘noogies’ which wasn’t hard to do, as he was several years older than me and a lot bigger. Even as adults, he’s still quite a bit bigger than me, and continued doing this at every opportunity. I always swore I’d get him back, and carefully waited for my opportunity. My brother and I were busy installing outlets in a housing division. One day, I came into work a few minutes late due to traffic problems, and found Frank squatting beside a baseboard instlling an outlet. He hadn’t heard me, so I snuck up behind him, and screeched a battle cry as I clamped him in a head lock. He started bucking and screaming obsceneties at me, but I wasn’t going to let this opportunity pass by, so I held on for dear life and gave him noogies to make up for a childhood filled with them. For a good minute, I rubbed his head with my knuckles until both his scalp and my hand were bruised and bleeding, when I finally let go. And I had never seen this man before in my life. He was the building inspector come to test the wiring."