Laughter is the best medicine . . .

[BonusMom]

Jordozmom-even with SjS, I had tears of laughter when I read about your rogue pee,  what a great thread to start my day with!

[jordozmom]

Oh Bernice - I am crying!!!!!!      I just keep picturing it - the tent swaying and you plastered against the side of it!  I think you and I are a lot alike.  I tell people, every day of my life is like an episode of I Love Lucy - not only do I have the red hair for it, but every day I always get myself into some kind of mess! 

[Bernice]

Jordozmom

Yes! My life is an adventure! My husband laughs and says "It's never a dull moment!" I thank God I love to laugh otherwise I would have given up a long time ago from shame alone!

[jordozmom]

Bernice - Me too.  I actually have zero problem laughing at myself. 

While we are telling husband stories - I have to tell one where I screwed up with my guy and got just what I deserved.  Recently we were at the grocery store and having a little tiff - over something ridiculous I'm sure - and even though I knew I was being a little snippy I was just having one of those days where I couldn't help myself.  I wasn't happy with anything he had to say and I had a comeback for everything. (Ladies, you know what I am talking about - one of THOSE DAYS). At one point he said something and I turned around and just let him have it.  I'm talking hand on hip, head bobbing, finger waiving Claire Huxtable/Designing Women style - BAWK, BAWK, BAWK, BAWK!!  Then I turned around and grabbed the cart and stormed off into the next isle.  I stopped to grab some Lean Cuisines and went to throw them into my cart - only to discover that the cart was filled with big brown boxes.  Huh?  Well IT WAS NOT MY CART!!!  In my mind I thought back to when I turned to snap on him and remembered there had been a grocery store employee in the isle who was stocking shelves - in my fury I hadn't realized that I had taken his cart instead!!!!  I turned to Rich and asked him if he knew that I had taken the wrong cart and he said, "Yep."  I asked him why he didn't tell me and he said, "Are you kidding me?  As mad as you were I wasn't about to tell you that!"  And I'm quite sure that the poor store clerk (who couldn't have been a day over 17) wasn't about to tell this crazy angry lady to give him his cart back!  OMG - I was laughing so hard I thought I would die.  Once I was able to compose myself again I took the cart back to the employee and explained what happened and apologized, then I apologized to Rich for being so nasty.  Boy, I sure felt like a fool.  But, that is what I got for being so snotty, I guess!!!!

[SassieCat]

    Jordozmom, that was hilarious.  I read these and start laughing and my hubby thinks I'm losing it.  Oh well, what does he know!

My mother (red hair) went to a store, when she left got into her car and saw a strange man sitting there.  She asked him, "What are you doing?" 

The man replied, "I'm waiting for my wife."  Just then she realized it was not her car. 

[jordozmom]

OMG Sassie - I would have died!  See - it must be a red-headed thing!!!  AHAHAHAHA!

[Prairie Gal]

Here's a chuckle for today!  This sign was seen in a Laundromat in England.   Automatic washing machines:  please remove all your clothes when the light goes out.

Prairie gal

[susanep]

 Between Jordozmom , and Bernice I was laughing so hard I was crying and coudn't see the screen. My husband said all night He will probably hear me suddenly start to giggle. I have a funny one too, but I am too cracked up right now to tell it. So you will have to wait. 

susanep

[trector1955]

All the stories here are really funny. Well this summer. I went to the water park with my two daughters and their kids. Taylor 15 months and Ryan 5 years old. Well we all went to go down this Hugh winding slide. the girls talked me into it and stayed at the bottom watching the kids. Well I went up to the top and started to go down. well I got stuck. The young man at the top kept saying Lady lay down and let the water push you down. Well everytime i laid down I would get too much water.I was drowning. I wasn't stuck from being too big. I was just stuck I had no friction. I had to sit and use my arms to make me go down. My girls were at the bottom laughting and the guy at the top was telling me to lay down and there was a long line forming. was I embarrassed. Boy did my arms hurt when I got down. Never again will I go up a slide. I am pretty sure it was because I had a pair of jean shorts on over my suit cuz my suit was too big. now how is that for funny. My Mother was walking back down the aisle after Communion at church with my dad years ago. and she fell flat on her face. all my dad could do was shout so loud " Jesus Christ Rita" The whole church looked at him like he was crazy. Boy was Mom embarrassed.

[susanep]

I can't seem to sleep right now so I might as well tell my story, but it's one  you might have had to been there to appreciate. 

Several years ago when my son was about 20 and my nephew 18, and my baby sister about 25 we all had been at the hospital waiting to see how  my mom was. She was having some electrical problem with her heart, but she was ok.

Well, we all had been so serious through this so then my son says let's all go somewhere and do something to lighten up. My sister says that there is suppose to be this big weight loss convention free going on this night , and why didn't we all go to it. (that is suppose to be fun?)

My son says well we can go, and he started kidding around (he's a big  cut up and we are close)
but it better not be any of this 12 step stuff where we all have to admit that we are overweight.

My sister says oh it's not like that, we all can just sit in the back of the auditorium and listen in, and if we don't like it we can all just get up and leave and no one will even know we were there.

UH HUH......We like sheep follow her to this building. We all go inside, and my sister ask a lady where the weight loss group is meeting . The woman says it's inside that door right there on the left.

She opened the door and went in and we sheep followed her, and my nephew closed the door. It was NOT an auditorium, but a room, and one long table with chairs on each side, and out comes a lady,to greet us, and by the way, we are the only ones there.

I was the one sitting right next to her. (it was winter out side), I looked down at my son and he made  rabbit ears at me. I looked away, because I easily get tickled, and once I start I can't stop, I don't care if the president himself is there.

The first thing the lady says to me is we are going to go over the 12 steps, so will you be the first  to repeat after me. I heard my son make a squeeking noise because he was already losing it. My sister mind you can hold anything in under pressure. I tried my best with my voice crackling to say the first couple of steps, and couldn't go on.

The woman  looked at me  so seriously and said mam is there a problem.  Laughing I said well yes you see my mom has been in the hospital and we all needed to relax well, I am sorry but I got to get out of here. I grabbed my coat, and as I flew out, I  heard my son who was fast losing it say, oh mommmmm pleaseeeee don'ttttttt goooooooooooo. Then he scrammed also.

Well I was bent over laughing outside so hard that a cop come over to see if I was alright. My son came out to get me to walk to the other side with him to keep me out of trouble with the cop.

Me and my son later learned what happened with my nephew and sister still in there. Well the nephew kept reading the steps and other stuff. but he said the only way he was able to remain longer was each paragraph he read, he scooted out a bit more from the table. When he read enough that he was finally clear he jumped up and told my sister. Sorry Tammy, but your on  your own.  At that time all of us smoked accept for my sister (go figure), and we were all going through one cig after another outside in the midst of our laughing.

She finally came out and told us she finished reading, and the lady ask what was wrong with all of us, and my sister told her I don't know, I don't know any of them. She wouldn't speak to any of us, but we told her it was her fault telling us we would be in a  big auditorium.

All of us still laugh a bout it to this day, accept  my sister. My mom  got the whole story from my sister, and scolded all of us.

susanep

[Katybarstool]

Susan

That's so funny! It cracked me up rading it. I kept imagining that poor woman's face

By the way, did anyone lose weight ?

Kathyx

[Patze]

Oh my Susan, that had me howling!  Thanks for the smile I'll be wearing today thinking about the weight loss convention!


Patze

[susanep]

No one lost any weight, but we lost a lot of fluids from all the hysterical laughing.

susanep

[Chickpea]

What a brilliant story!  Thanks for sharing.

Chickpea

[Bucky]

You guys are so funny!!  Thanks for the smiles and laughs.   

How are we going to explain ourselves now when we are at the grocery store, watching someone come down the slide at the waterpark, or in a room where we're not suppose to be and we recall these stories and are laughing to ourselves??      LOL

The stories I could tell . . . . the one company I worked at in Ohio there were several people (myself included) who liked to pull practical jokes on people.  We've had some really good laughs.  I don't know how we ever got our work done!!  It's easier to "tell" the story than it is to write it down - I'll share some later. 

It does your body good to laugh . . . laugh often.   

Bucky