Should i laugh, or should I cry?

Archeron

Ever have one of those moments where you genuinley dont know whether you should laugh or cry? I had one recently.

Housesitting for my brother while he was on holidays, I got quite bored and invited a few friends over to watch a few DVDs. A few beers were had, a bit of messing and joking, the usual. After a while, we ordered a chinese and were getting ready to watch a film.

During the course of the messing, some cushions got thrown on the floor. One of them landed on the couple of stairs that led down to the sunken living room. As one mate was walking down the stairs with a big plate of chinese precariously balanced in one hand, he typically tripped on the cushion. Almost everything on the plate went flying across the room, and because he was ready to munch it, the lids had been removed. The fried noodles went flying to the right and splodged on the top of the white couch, then bounced down and landed on the seat, lying there like some big dead noodly jellyfish. At the same time, the chicken curry went head first into the TV screen, slid down onto the DVD player, getting right into the air vents on the top, and then dripped all over the new carpet. The only thing that stayed on the plate was the spring roll. (which was very tasty)

I really didnt know whether to laugh or cry. So I done both.

Ever had a situation that made you confused as to how to feel?

youcancallmeal

I laughed

connundrum

When I was 19 I spent the guts of €17,000 doing up my car with a view to taking it to car shows etc. (Sorry yet again to Mrs. Connundrum ) I had it fully finished and on the road for about 3 weeks before a Hyundai Atoz promptly made it's way into the side of my shiney beauty.

I remember sitting on the side of the road and looking at the car being pulled up onto the tow truck. I had the shakes and kept laughing, everyone around me must've thought I was a psycho but if I hadn't laughed then I damn sure would have cried.. and probably never stopped.

greenkittie

noooooooooooo all the yummy food i cried.

danniemcq

mate came outta atlantic homecare and there was a young couple and their kid. they had just bought one of the huge bathroom mirrors which woulda cost a bit. so father tryin to find keys mother holding mirror kid running around.

kid trips-hits mother-mirror falls-shatters

he managed to keep it together but the family burst into tears. i think i'd have laughed though. does that make me a bad guy?

Kolodny

Archeron wrote:

lying there like some big dead noodly jellyfish.

Seriously, who buys a white couch? That's just asking for trouble.

I had one of those moments a few years ago when I slipped on icy steps and gave my hip bone a nasty knock. I was in excrutiating pain and felt like bawling my eyes out like a 5 year old but instead I started laughing hysterically. Shock I suppose.

skywalker

Archeron wrote:

lying there like some big dead noodly jellyfish.

That made me lol if its any consolation. What happened when your brother got back?

The Sweeper

Bought a round of beers last saturday. Shoe came off while on way up steps of beer garden. Tray wobbled, and one bottle of bulmers set off a domino chain reaction. Nowt left on tray but a glass of water. That was three lagers, two ales and two bulmers, smackity crash splash.

Beer garden went quiet. I curtsied and made an award acceptance speech, before returning to the bar with this glass of water and saying "barkeep? same again. this time you can carry them."

Laugh? I nearly roffled.

(Though other people's "OMIGOD that's like SOOOO BAD" reactions were more annoying.)

WhizzGDK

i was meeting the sales director out for dinner to discuss a pay rise, the meal went well and as part of the raise i wanted to have take home privilages of the company car i am using, on leaving the restaurant, i was parrallel parked, and pulling out of the space i rear ended his brand new jag, in a state of panic i flicked it into reverse and bashed the car behind me to.

i laughed, he cried, got the pay rise but no use of the car.

Siogfinsceal

WhizzGDK wrote:

i was meeting the sales director out for dinner to discuss a pay rise, the meal went well and as part of the raise i wanted to have take home privilages of the company car i am using, on leaving the restaurant, i was parrallel parked, and pulling out of the space i rear ended his brand new jag, in a state of panic i flicked it into reverse and bashed the car behind me to.

i laughed, he cried, got the pay rise but no use of the car.

classic- that had me in knots!!
Rang a mates dad one night by mistake instead of her when I was very drunk and made a right show of myself (thought he was a guy who had stolen her phone and was v rude). Did not see him for a long while but ended up over at the house a few weeks later and tried to behave myself so the poor man wouldnt hate me. They have electric gates in the house and when leaving, I was trying to turn round my jeep and reversed into a lamp post they have on the lawn and got locked into the garden as the gates closed. Got out of the car and am stood on the lawn trying to push the lamp post back in place when the intruder lamp comes on and theres her dad looking out the window. wanted the ground to swallow me up

Splinter

ehhh bad bad leg cramp in my thigh while have a "quiet" moment with the lady last week...i cried and laughed.... ohh...and ten minutes ago i emailed the director of my job by total fluke and told him his vocal range astounds me...bugger....email followed very quickly to inform him it was for the wrong reciepiant...thank god he say the humerous side...

Archeron

skywalker wrote:

That made me lol if its any consolation. What happened when your brother got back?

I cleaned up best I could. Covered one of the couch stains with a cushion. He never mentioned that one. I pulled the TV stand out a little bit to cover the stain on the carpet. I had to replace the DVD player though, that bit hurt.

Siogfinsceal, that story is classic. I can imagine your face when the light came on.:D

Siogfinsceal

not surprisingly I have not been over to the house since. poor man aparently he just turned to my friend and said in a very concerned voice 'is she okay , like is there something wrong with her?'

Tar.Aldarion

Siogfinsceal wrote:

he just turned to my friend and said in a very concerned voice 'is she okay , like is there something wrong with her?'

Haha, that is wonderful.

You are not lucky with that dude, I can imagine him giving you a ball the next time he sees you.
'Here is a ball, you can bounce it'.

Ruu_Old

OP, got a larf out of your story. I am just after tripping over that stupid gumball machine in the house and cornflake blow after going flying out of my hands, no milk in it though *wipes brow*, easy cleanup.

LikeOhMyGawd!

I was in the cinema with a few friends and in the lobby they had a special VW beetle promotional car for the move Antz which was out at the time. The car had a big fibreglass ant mounted on it. As I was coming down the escalator towards the car I could see there were a couple of kids swinging from the ant’s tentacles. As I neared the bottom of the escalator there was a load crack and one of the tentacles broke off and the kid fell to the ground, still holding the broken tentacle in his hand. We couldn’t help ourselves and burst out laughing. I could barely see out my eyes for tears. As we got close to the car the poor kid, still in complete shock, had clambered to onto his feet and turned around towards us…he was a Down's syndrome boy but we still couldn’t stop laughing.

Mossy Monk

Archeron wrote:

I really didnt know whether to laugh or cry. So I done both

i cried
the poor dvd player

irlirishkev

I was renting a room in a gaff in East Wall a couple of years back. Before I moved in, I knew it could be a bit dodgy round there. I also knew there was no offstreet parking in which to park my Honda Civic, but i optimistically figured nothing would happen, and besides, it was so close to work, I'd be a fool not to live there.

2 months into living there, lying in bed one night, I heard a massive crash. Came downstairs to find out some scumbags had joyridden a car into my little civic. Totally destroyed the front end.

I wanted to laugh 'cos deep down I knew something like this might happen*, and I wanted to cry, 'cos I loved that car. I drew a happy medium and got really really angry instead..


*before the East Wall Brigade get on my case, yes I know this could have happened anywhere..

Trinity

Bought my first car, drove it home, tried to put it in the garden and ripped it off the gate. The whole side of it. Was like the titanic. Door had to be replaced. Cried then laughed.

Reversing same car couple of weeks later, bit too fast, didnt know the wall curved, hit the wall. Laughed.

Uncle came to visit one day, came in and said jesus what happened to your car? I didnt know what he was talking about, went out and it was totalled at the front. Joyriders had crashed into it, couldnt claim on the insurance as it was a hit and run so didnt have any reg number for the car that hit it.

That car was just bad luck (although admittedly i should have had more than one driving lesson before buying it) :rolleyes: