Did you ever laugh so hard you couldn’t stop? Like something mildly or moderately funny gets you started but the laughter gains momentum and all of a sudden you can’t stop? You laugh and laugh some more – whatever you were originally laughing at wasn’t really that funny but no matter. The laughter takes on a life of its own and before long, you’ve either got tears running down your face or pee running down your leg. Serious laughter.
That was me earlier this evening. I was sitting at my laptop wrapping up my workday when Gary called my cell phone. He was quite upset because he thought that his bed was a boat and he tried to drive it to a Boy Scout meeting where he either became stuck in our driveway or was lost one town over. He needed me to come to rescue him but wasn’t sure where he was so he said he would try to use the GPS in his phone to figure it out and call me back. I logged out and trudged upstairs; he was in the bed where he had been all day and, for some reason, the ridiculousness of it all just struck me and I began to chuckle. But he kept talking and the chuckle started to take on a life of it own. At this point, my chuckling began annoying him. “I don’t know what you’re laughing at,” he bellowed, “I’ve been driving this boat all over the place for decades,” And that’s where the chuckle turned into an unstoppable laugh. He continued on and on and on about the Boy Scout meeting and the boat bed and I could not stop laughing. As I kept laughing harder and harder, he started talking about nitroglycerin and looking for the Secret Service and I laughed until the tears started to run down my face.
Because it’s no laughing matter.
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