Laughing till we cry

My mum was in hospital after a full & she whispered to me( she thought she was whispering as we have been telling her for years that she was going deaf) “you see that male nurse over there, the gay one, he has checked my hearing several times today & said it is ok”. When I stopped laughing I explained that he was checking her temperature not her hearing.

Hattiehelga

We were buying an overcoat for Son's birthday. DH tried it on and the hem was at ankle length, the sleeves were many inches over his hands and the neckline at waist level.
I said "Yes that's perfect, absolutely spot on". The Salesman's face was something to behold, especially when we bought it. He didn't know DH is 5ft 8ins and Son 6ft 2ins so the oversize was just right. When we left the shop and realised the Sales chap's disbelief, we both laughed hysterical tears.

We had something similar to this. Our oldest son had been at university, but needed to live back home to continue studying. That meant he and younger brother had to share a room. We went to look for bunk beds.

We took my younger son with us to size up. In one shop, as my son leaned over the top of bunk bed, we said to the salesman....” we’re looking for some bunk beds for him and his big brother”. His face was a picture.

They were both 6’ 5”!

Working late one evening and intermittently calling the house to check whether my younger son was home (and whether my older son was in) and let him know I wouldn't be much longer. Also trying to phone a new member of staff to check she still intended to pop in the next morning to meet people.
Yes - I mixed them up and when the new staff member's son ( who sounded uncannily like my son) answered, I said "Hello,pet, are you on your own?"
To make matters worse, I still thought it was my son when I got the typical teenage "huh?" followed by "Who is this?" ( my younger son often joked about on the phone). I then replied with the first daft name I could think of and said " Mr McGoo". Only then did I think that something wasn't right. Having apologised and terminated the call, I couldn't speak for laughing with tears running down my face when a colleague came in and asked if I was ok. I also spent the next six months apologising to the new staff member for traumatising her teenage son!

Listening to all the difficult names being read out at my husband’s first graduation. We were 22. My sister in law and I were doubled over, trying to compose ourselves, but being unable to. My parents in law were cross with us, but laughing at the same time. We just couldn’t help it.??

It’s such a shame we didn’t laugh more like that with my husband’s family. Most of the time it was just problems, until we eventually estranged.

My DH and I went to visit his elderly GM. She had the TV on and just as we were leaving there was a news item about a certain film star who was pregnant.
I said ' I wonder who the father is?
' Some big nob' granny replied. Good job we were leaving as we were both ready to burst holding in the laughter.

We were buying an overcoat for Son's birthday. DH tried it on and the hem was at ankle length, the sleeves were many inches over his hands and the neckline at waist level.
I said "Yes that's perfect, absolutely spot on". The Salesman's face was something to behold, especially when we bought it. He didn't know DH is 5ft 8ins and Son 6ft 2ins so the oversize was just right. When we left the shop and realised the Sales chap's disbelief, we both laughed hysterical tears.

When was at school one of my classmates had false teeth as a result of being kicked in the face by her horse. We had an argument one day about politics and as she shouted at me she spat her teeth out and they skidded along the floor. She picked them up, put them back in and stormed off! Me and my friends were doubled up laughing.

The Irish bat expert...

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Sawsage2

A newspaper typist answering a phone call from a man for the Personal column typed 'man looking for a woman for head-on-a-stick pleasure '. Still makes me laugh!

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That took me a minute but hilarious when the penny dropped!

English Lit. class in secondary school. Analysing Macbeth or Hamlet - something tragic. I and the three friends around me disinterested and gossiping. Our teacher standing at the front of the class became exasperated with us and shouted "Be quieTTT!" With that explosive "T" the whole set of his top dentures shot out of his mouth and arched upwards. He caught them neatly as they came down again and popped them back quickly but we four had seen the whole thing while the rest of the class had their heads into their books and missed the experience. They couldn't understand why we four were purple in the face, with shaking shoulders and tears pouring down our cheeks - trying to hold in the laughter. I still recall the pain!

That took me a minute but hilarious when the penny dropped!

annemarg HAAAAAAA.
MISSHEARING .....

Its like 1 day i needed to take a urine sample of my mums to get tested. ( at the Drs )

I said "Right, ill take this to get tested."

Mum said "Ohh is there anything they don't do?"

Me.... "What?"

Mum...." Tesco, they do everything now."

Me ..... "I said TESTED not TESCO."

Mum laughed her stocking tops off .....

GreenGran78

giulia. My Family and Other Animals is one of my favourite books. The part that always sets me laughing is when they are trying to make a dignified arrival. Their dog barks insults at all the local mutts, as they are driving, and they all give chase. The mental picture of them drawing to a halt, surrounded by a seething mass of barking dogs, while trying to keep a British 'stiff upper lip' always gets me going.

Absolutely! Must read it again. I saw that the book has been dramatized by the BBC(?). Lost all of it's humour. Just has to be READ.

I got the giggles really bad when having a colonoscopy.
I’d gone with my friend who is the femail equivalent of Billy Connolly so before the examination she had gone into all these scenarios of what could happen with a camera up your backside.
Thankfully the young doctor saw the jokes.

DH and I were moving house long distance. For the first night in our rented house we were without our furniture as it was being delivered the next day. We had brought inflatable camping beds but neither of us had any experience of such things. We assembled the foot-operated pump and got started with it. It was late at night and it made the most weird grunty, breathy noise. We became conscious that on the other side of the bedroom wall would be our new semi-detached neighbours. The more we thought about this, the more helpless we became, laughing hysterically, rolling round the bedroom floor, tears flowing down our cheeks. What would our neighbours be thinking? We lived there for 10 months before finding a house to buy and during that time neither our neighbours nor ourselves ever referred to the night of our arrival. 15 years on it still makes us laugh.
Runners-up to that laugh/cry experience would be Bob Mortimer's "Would I Lie to You?" sagas, and Bill Bailey's televised stage performances.

On this occasion we did laugh so much we cried, and when we thought of this days afterwards we started again!

I asked my husband how his friend was these days, and it sounded to me as though he said "Oh he's fine, he is going off on one of his sheep shearing holidays soon." Absolutely amazed, I said "I didn't know he could shear sheep!!! There was a silence, husband turned round and said slowly "I said - he's going off on one of his cheap Shearings holidays soon"!!!

I can truthfully say I have never laughed so much in my life!

My daughter and I got the giggles really badly when she went to try on wigs with 2 lovely volunteers at the hospital.

They put one on her, which was just hair on an elastic band, so you could wear a hat with it and it covered your bald head.

My girl said "I think if I raise my eyebrows up and down it will work it's way up and then ping off the top of my head".

The poor women were being so solemn and respectful, but that just made it funnier.

I, with a friend were asked to leave an Anne Summers shop because we completely lost it looking at the Rampant Rabbit.
In my defence i had imbibed a few Gins at a lunchtime jazz club.

A newspaper typist answering a phone call from a man for the Personal column typed 'man looking for a woman for head-on-a-stick pleasure '. Still makes me laugh!

I was at a Russell Brand show and had to make a hasty retreat to the loo due to being almost hysterical. I was obviously totally out of control. Tears were streaming down my face, my nose began, I could hardly breathe at one point. What had he said that tickled me so much? No idea. I didn't even want to see Russell Brand particularly but my daughter asked me along as a birthday treat.

Another time I was watching Michael McIntyre on TV. He was describing British people abroad compared to other nations , ( probably not very acceptable) but I was once again in hysterics.

And I didn't think I liked him either.

Sometimes we just get a fit if the giggles. There's young man on TikTok who I adore. I can just think about his clips and dissolve.

Maybe I just get overly giddy and laugh too much

A laughing until we cried incident was one of the stand out moments in a long standing friendship of mine and has become legend. Just the other day we reminisced about this very fondly. We attended a pottery party in the mid '80s and just found the whole thing hilarious. Not sure why we laughed so much, but we were quite tired and hungry. Last to arrive, first to leave because we couldn't stop laughing. And trying to stifle our laughter just made it worse. I knew no one there, apart from my friend. The hostess was entirely unamused, which made us want to laugh more. I can still recall her pinched and rather severe look. She just couldn't see the funny side at all and looked at me as though I was pathetic and rude, and leading my friend astray. ? We felt like naughty schoolgirls, though the hostess was the same age as us. The atmosphere when we arrived was stiff and starchy, and there was no food on offer, while the pictures of pottery in the catalogue were full of unobtainable food. I found this completely hilarious too. Everyone else was taking the pottery party so seriously, which added to our mirth, I think. My friend tried to control herself, as she had been invited by the host, but couldn't. Couldn't even look at each other without dissolving into giggles. After a while, some of the guests began to smile, realising that we just couldn't help it, and of course, it was funny. It lightened the mood anyway. I am laughing again now. ??? I'm sure we tried to apologise. ? In the end we had to leave, staggering down the concrete steps of the block of flats into the night to let rip fully. My friend never saw the hostess again, though she was invited to 'get together' some time in front of me. ? Good times!

Warning; possible offence could be caused!

Some 15 years ago my BF and I (even then mature ladies of a certain age) went on an outing to Hever Castle - gorgeous place, wonderful gardens. As was our wont we took packed lunches with us and stopped to partake of same, sitting in an alcove in the Italian Garden. It was a very hot day and to ensure that our bottles of water were cold when we wanted to drink them, we had frozen them overnight so that they could defrost slowly until required. My dear friend's water hadn't melted as quickly as mine and she said in all innocence: "I've been sucking on this for ages and I can't get anything out". Her mind is not the sewer that mine is, and it took a little while for her to realise why I had collapsed in a giggling heap - however, when she did she also collapsed and everyone passing us was treated to the sight of two middle-aged-to-elderly women with their arms round each other, red-faced and weeping with uncontrollable laughter for quite some time!

My son was reading Axel Sheffler's Flip Flap Safari to his little niece. As they turned the pages he read the animal noises in such a deadpan voice, e.g. snort snort, that my daughter and I just laughed till it hurt.

Bill Bryson can reduce me to crying with laughter - 'A Walk in the Woods' had my husband laughing on the train so he had to stop reading it there. ( No normal emotions to be demonstrated by commuters. ) However, that lovely video clip of the lady and the waist shaper posted by MerylStreep has had the tears rolling. Priceless- thank you!

This tale is true I swear on whatever you want.
In pub in cCirencester in say 2001/2 really loud music very old pub down side street. With friends we were visiting. Some other Dutch tourists sat opposite in little pub lounge. Everyone roaring laughing juke box loud rock music..........so I decided I could let loose some spare wind without detection.
Wrong.
As soon as I embarked on the release everything but everything went totally quiet! Music, People , just a few chinking glasses behind bar.
To say it was like a cross between an elephant in pain and some strangled ducks.......
Whole place erupted .I was mortified and the Dutch? Said " don't worry it means the same in Dutch!"
It took a good 15minutes for everyone to settle down.......
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