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From: ohio
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posted April 12, 2009 09:20 PM         

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Yup, 26-- me too. I'm not an empathetic cryer. On the flip side of that, if I do break down and cry, people are usually FREAKED OUT!

LOL... oh, well. I can deal.

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From: UK
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posted April 15, 2009 09:04 AM         

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Future, I love David Sedaris!!

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posted April 15, 2009 10:20 AM         

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I went to a presentation for parents at my children's school last year and the teacher was demonstrating the new interactive screens just installed and it didn't matter what he did, it wouldn't work. And like all the naughty children, a fellow mother and I were sitting up the back, and she looked over at me and we sat there sliding down the chairs slowly, trying so so hard not to laugh. And, of course, teachers have eyes on the backs of their heads, no matter what ages their students are, and he knew and commented, which made it worse. We had tears streaming down our faces and were really trying not to laugh. It reminded me of the kid in Year 5. I was the good kid in the class and he was the naughty one so the teacher, interestingly, sat us together - and at the back of the room - where we would play with matchbox cars and put things in the hair of the kids in front of us. He had a knack for catching flies and pulling off their wings which would end up in the hair of the girl in front. Ah, fun days.

Oh, and a couple of years ago, I had the misfortune of cracking up at the wrong moment, when one of the mothers at school was telling me about something completely distressing to her. I made the mistake of looking over at another mother who smiled (laughingly) at me which made me crack because I'd been trying to stay straight. And in the middle of uttering something very sympathetic to this lady, my voice cracked and then laughed. There's just no way to recover from that one.

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posted April 15, 2009 10:27 AM         

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My sister's front tooth is missing (I threw a cricket ball too hard as kids) and she has a false plate that she can remove with a flick of her tongue, exposing this gaping hole that makes her look like a wino. She does this to me when we're in someone else's company and the other person can't see. She'll be completely deadpan and I'm in tears laughing, usually at really inappropriate times. Once I was somewhere with her and she stuck a fag in the gap and lit it and I lost it totally.

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From: nevada
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posted April 15, 2009 08:51 PM         

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I had one of those moments recently.

I was called in for a conference at my youngest sons' school.
I had every one of his teachers there and they were all ticked off.
It seems my son was arguing with this girl and told her she had a moustache which made her cry.
I was expecting anything but that and since nobody really told me what the problem was it caught me totally off guard.

Unfortunately I just put my head down and laughed.

although I don't condone making fun of anybody, I had vivid memories of my own brothers saying the same exact thing.
(I think I cried too, but not as bad as my sister who really did have a slight shadow )

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posted April 16, 2009 06:47 AM         

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Good stuff ladies.

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posted April 16, 2009 03:47 PM         

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This comes to mind though probably more funny in the moment. When I was 19, my bf and I that met in the army went camping and got connected with a group of 'big scouts' called Rovers who had come down for an annual organized bush bash with vehicles.

We were all drinking steadily because it was absolutely freezing. The bf was telling us a story whilst bouncing a little on this low trailer. Suddenly he lost balance, and rather than fall he flipped in a somersault, totally tanked as he was, and landed on his feet with cigarette and some of his drink still intact. Then looked at us with a totally shocked but goofy grin and we all cracked up.

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posted April 16, 2009 05:34 PM         

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Whewwwww I had to turn that off bc I was rolling bc he was rolling..Tears started to come out of my eyes..I will keep this though its gonna be very much needed..

It reminds me when I was lil and we use to play giggles,snorts and laughs..My cousin would start off with a lil giggle and then I would mimic him and then him me and before you knew it we were on the floor laughing our butts off for really no reason..

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posted April 16, 2009 09:14 PM         

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I used to do that too, and my children do - usually when they are getting tired and they're on holidays and just all lying around bunks and sofas.

The absolute worst for me is when I know I have to behave and I'm trying really hard to be well-behaved and I'm around someone who has a bit of a thing about convention. They don't have to say anything, I will be shockingly thrown out just by a look. Then they can get away with just the odd smile and snort while I'm looking like a mental case and no one can understand that there was anything funny at all.

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