Inappropriate Laughter ???

Question

Have you ever gotten into a laughing fit in a wrong place? Please explain.

Answer 1

Yes,
I was at my coworker’s mother’s funeral. Someone had walked out of the bathroom with one of those protective toilet seat covers tucked into her skirt. I tried to stop but couldn’t stop thinking about it. As she walked around the room, no one said anything. I was laughing so hard I was in tears! I couldn’t stop. I tried to cover it up by acting over come by the passing of this women (who I didn’t know). I finally had to leave.

Answer 2

I was in a meeting with all the top managers (I was a supervisor at the time) as well as my best friend who worked there. She was a real go getter, although we go home and talked about how much this job sucked and how boring these meetings were. (We even had a new trainee who fell asleep in a meeting before.)

Anyway, someone said something stupid and boring like, "Did you know we had two customers who asked the same question on....?" To fake her enthusiasm, my friend let out an over exaggerated gasp so loud that it out shined all the other fake gasps. I couldn't help but started laughing, which was obviously really inappropriate. I think that marked the end of my career there because not only I didn't care enough to try to fit in, I laughed at their pathetic efforts.

Answer 3

I tend to laugh when I'm in a heated argument with my husband. I don't know why I laugh because there's usually nothing funny about the situation. It's probably a nervous response.

My mother laughs in horror movies, which I find inappropriate. Here I am, terrified out of my mind, and she's sitting there, pointing at the movie screen and laughing. So I guess I come by it honestly.

Answer 4

While in school during prayers. Some kid would do something and a group of us would be giggling. A teacher would turn up and screw our ears.
In Law School we had to present projects. There was this guy(the other hostel guys thought a bore) whose turn it was. So Karan comes to the last bench where we sat and said that when he finishes we all will belch loudly. So we practised a few and started having a fit and couldn't do it finally. So Devaki (a girl) belched and said that was how you did it.

Answer 5

Oh yes... I just cannot control my laugh if someone slips and falls or if something slips out of someone's hand and they bend down with a lot of trouble to pick it up.. Gosh..I just cannot help but laugh.
It does not even strike to me that I should help them get up from the floor when someone falls. The very first response I give is laugh out loud.

Answer 6

Yes, at my dad's funeral. I was a teen when he died and the whole illness was hugely stressful. The day of the funeral they put us, the immediate family, in the sales room where there were displays of headstones. One was the type that had the "vase" where flowers could be put and my brother (in his 20's) said that those "vases" were really peep holes for the buried to look through....well grandma started laughing first, then mom, then the rest of us. I know it was stress related, but when the funeral director walked in we were all laughing our heads off. I think it was good for us really....
Now more recently at a Bar-Mitzvah - not so good.....

Answer 7

I've had time in church where something happens and it's all I can do to keep from bursting out laughing. Also, I've gotten in trouble laughing at the dinner table.

Answer 8

That is a horrible problem of mine. Growing up, if my parents were yelling at me, I laughed. At church and funerals, I really have to fight the desire to laugh.......sometimes I have to leave for a bit. It must be a stress reaction!

Answer 9

I used to but over the years, I've managed to control it.

I work with really sick people and sometimes they die and you have to console their family members so.... no control.... a lotta trouble! I force a somber expression and then think of something sad.

Answer 10

Yeah, at my wedding as I watched my bride to be coming down the aisle.