Laugh at yourself...

[Kate*]

Does anyone have a story or something that they did that is funny now, but it wasn't at the time? I just had something crazy happen to me and thought I'd share:

So, the hot water knob on our bathtub was in the process of breaking when I decided to take a shower on Monday night. I was home alone and my mom was going to get home later than usual because she had to run an errand for me. Anyway, so of course this was the time the knob had to break! I immediately jumped out of the shower, got dressed and tried to turn the remaining piece where the knob had been by hand . That did nothing so I ran to the kitchen and then to the garage thinking that a wrench would work, it didn't. Meanwhile the water is running full blast and I'm beyond panicking because my mom is going to kill me for breaking the shower and running up the water bill, I can't turn off the water and I'm wasting it. It finally occurs to me to turn off the water to the house, that way at least I wouldn't waste water and my mom could fix it when she got home. I started frantically running up and down the stairs multiple times trying to find/figure out which valve will turn off the water. Well, I accidentally turned off the gas to the hot water tank instead because I was freaking out and didn't know what i was doing and that knocked out the pilot light, so now we had no hot water, but I didn't realize it because I assumed that the hot water had just run out because it had been running for so long. After an hour and a half my mom finally came home and managed to turn off the broken faucet with a set of pliers (DUH). She's snaping and swearing at me for messing with things because we eventually realize that I messed up the hot water tank and we have no hot water(and no idea exactly what I did to it) plus she was going to call the plummer on Tuesday to fix the thing anyway. I went to bed and was a wreck the whole night worrying about carbon monoxide poisoning or blowing up the house because we could smell gas in the basement. The next night the plummer came out and relit the pilot light then he came back tonight and fixed the faucet and gave us a new shower head.

My mom told me that my dad had done a similar thing before I was born. She couldn't remember why they had to turn the water off, but my dad went down to the basement of their old house with a GIANT wrench and ended up turning the water shut off valve the WRONG WAY and it broke and water started flooding the basement full blast as well as gushing out of the bathroon faucet (which was the reason they had needed to turn the water off in the first place, apparently) Of course this was a Saturday night so my mom started frantically searching the phone book (this was over 23 years ago) to try to find an emergency plummer to fix it. They ended up having to call the city and pulling some head city water guy out of a party so he could thow a team together to come fix this mess, they had to shut off the water from out in the yard and then they came back the next day to fix the water valve in the basement and the faucet.

What happened to you?

[Le bonheur*]

On Sunday I was running down the stairs and I missed a step and I landed on my feet. Which was fine until my ankle gave out, twisted, and then I fell and hit my head on my neighbor's door. (I live on the 2nd floor of an apartment, so I hit the 1st floor's door). I didn't find it funny until after the fact when my Dad looked at me and said, "Brittany, thank you so much for that laugh. I haven't laughed in the longest time and you just did the trick by falling down the stairs." So it was a win-win. Except my ankle and head hurt for days after. Now I'm laughing about it.

[justfallinginlove]

Last week I was home alone and we have REALLY creeky stairs. So I was in my room playing music and all of a sudden I think I hear the stairs so I pause the music. Nothing. This repeats a few times until I know that I really do hear something. So I turned my music off and peeked out the door. I didnt see anything (you can only see the very top of the stairs from my door) but then I hear the stairs creeking super loud. My heart was pounding and I was litterally thinking Oh my Gooood they're someone coming to mass murder me even though theres only one of me so it wouldnt be mass but Im gonna diiiieee Oh my goooooshhh. and things like this for like 5 minutes peeking out the door then Im thinking Geez what's taking my murderer so long. Okay I've gotta go look. So I muster the guts to open the door and walk out to see a my cat jumping around on the stairs trying to swat at a bluebird that was on the window. I spent the next 2 hours trying to get it out til it finnally flew out the window I had opened to do so. I still laugh just thinking about it;

[Floriferous]

Alright well, in my Intro to Theater class we're doing pantomiming. The first day we started it my teacher was just like, "Alright, I need someone with a clean mind." Needless to say we all put up our hands to see who she thought was "innocent". She chose me. xD As soon as she said my name EVERYONE in that class just started cracking up. My teacher was like, "What, I think Amanda seems innocent."
She got responses like, "She is NOT innocent."
"Do you know her brother?" (He was in drama club which she advises.), and
"Most of the things she knows she learned from Sam."
Then she says, "Alright, I want you to pantomime eating a banana."
And this is me: O.O Train of thought, "How do I not make this perverted..."

[Kate*]

On one of our 5th grade trips to the science center we all got on the escalator after being told to tuck our shoelaces inside our shoes so they wouldn't get caught. Well, I guess somebody stepped on the back of my shoe or something, but I immediately panicked and instinctively screamed because I thought my shoelace was caught in the escalator. One of the teachers gave me a VERY angry look (one of the few I've ever gotten) and then everybody kept asking "Katie, why did you scream??!!" It was pretty bad.

Then there was the field trip in fourth grade where I got sneezed on by a horse.

[Iridescence]

I had a good laugh on these

When I was about 3 or 4, I was at my Nana's house and while she was asleep, I crawled out of her bed and went in her daughters bathroom and got a hold of her eyeliner and drew a line across my face I was frantically trying to get it off my face before she woke up but I failed at that and she was like "Fallon Rose!"
-sigh- good days.

[JKmadu619]

The other day I was helping my parent's at the grocery store, loading the cart and whatever, and I completely wiped out. The floor was soaking wet and I didn't notice, and went right head over heels. A bunch of people were chuckling so I took a bow once I got up.

- Justin

[dr2005]

Originally Posted by Kate*

Then there was the field trip in fourth grade where I got sneezed on by a horse.

Priceless.

I think my best one in this category would be from my first Jiu-Jitsu grading a few years ago. We were in the part known as a "V", which for those who aren't familiar with it means one person standing in front of a V-shape of people (hence the name) and those people being sent out one at a time to attack them. I'd done my stint in the V, and all things considered did a good job so was feeling pretty good about things. The next person in was a higher grade and we were told to do bodygrabs on them, and I was told by sensei to grab them over the arms. Suffice it to say, this person had a mental blank and couldn't remember how to get out of it, so they panicked - and brought their knee up between my legs so hard my feet actually came off the ground. Suffice it to say that did the trick! After being thrown, I hobbled off the mat and saw stars for pretty much the rest of the grading. The sensei, meanwhile, was killing himself laughing at what happened.

It wasn't much fun at the time, for obvious reasons, but looking back it's pretty bloody funny.

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

I was outside the exam room doing some last-minute studying for my second-year sociology exam. I was pretty confident because I did well in the tests and term paper. The course has 2 lecturers as it's taught at different times of the day and I had the lecturer who was also the professor and in charge of the course. Once I entered the exam room, I noticed a different lecturer was there, which didn't bother me because I thought the main prof is elsewhere as he teaches more than one course. I sat down, listened to the usual babble of "what not to do" and "what could get you thrown out".

Once we were allowed to begin, I flipped to the first page and almost pissed myself. The multiple choice questions were so odd but I could still answer them. The prof warned us that he'd pick nitty-gritty fine-point questions. After finishing them, I turned to the short answer questions and almost shat myself because I knew none of it. This was meant to be a criminology course but all the questions were about designing a certain experiment and used terms I never heard before. I flipped through the rest of the exam and there was no hint of criminology.

Feeling dejected, I closed the exam book hoping it was a bad dream and it sort of was. I looked down and saw... the wrong course code, it wasn't my course! I was relieved but very worried because I thought I may have missed the exam. I called over the TA, told him and he flagged down the lecturer, both of which looked at me bewildered. I told them my name, gave my student ID and sure enough, I wasn't in that course. I talked to some person from the registrar so they could tell me where my exam was and that is when I learned my course had no exam! The course codes were very similar and I carelessly looked at the list the days before the exam.

I handed back the exam to the professor who now realized I wasn't pulling her leg but her facial expressions suggested she thought I was loopier than Daffy Duck. She was convinced I was writing the exam in place of someone else and thought I got cold feet about it. When I asked her why, she showed me all my answers to the multiple choice questions were correct!

At the time, I found no humour in it at all. I was cursing myself why I didn't wear a diaper because I was certain I was going to fill my pants in fear. Looking back on it, I can see the humour.

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Another time was when I was around 15 years old and went to a petting zoo. My family and I were on vacation and all the descriptions made the petting zoo seem to be huge. When we got there, it was pretty lame but I figured, we traveled all the way down here, let's make it worth our while.

I went into the area with goats and it wasn't all that fun. A few goats tried to rape me, one or two of them kept shoving their snout at my butt area pretty hard, while another went to my front then decided to nibble and pull down on my shorts. After avoiding being gang-raped by goats I decided to look at smaller animals, such as chickens, which were pretty boring. I noticed this larger area with a bunch of people standing around, taking photos and laughing, so I went over there. Turns out, there were llamas.

I always thought it was a myth that llamas can spit. I thought since they can conserve so much water, they probably just drooled and it landed on someone's head, who tried to save dignity by saying they were spat on. So I went up to them and one was calmer than a tranquilized cucumber, while another was moving around a bit but not a whole lot. Then came the third who was moving around the most and I thought I'd pet it rather than the ones that were more or less motionless.

My father warned me not to and said llamas can spit if agitated but ignorant me told him out loud it was a myth. Others who were petting the llamas heard that and chuckled, saying I was wrong and it's not a myth. I asked if anyone got spat on yet and they all said they hadn't. Being all smug, I walked up to the llama like I owned it but it was getting agitated, so I continued.

Then it spat on me. It wasn't a small spit like a human can do, it was a bucket-sized spit and it came in fast and hard, right on my face, in my hair and dribbled all down my shirt. Everyone laughed and my father said, "not so much of a myth is it". Looking back, it was pretty funny and a bit gross but at the time I wasn't all that amused. I just muttered, "stupid llama" and walked off to dry myself.

[snoogums]

once I tripped on a speed bump and I bump into objects all the time and apologize.
Another time in grade 5 history my class had to do a project where we got into groups and made up a skit. I was in a group with 3 guys. They were always clowning around being goofy. So of course our skit had to be a comedy type thing. I have always been shy of presentations and all that so they only gave me one line. When it was time to present our skit and I had to say my line I started laughing sooo hard cuz it was too funny to say and I ended up sitting on the floor and peeing my pants because I couldn`t stop laughing. SO BAD!

[Sincerely Yours ♥]

Once, I was basically trying to light something up for smoking, but the fire caught onto my hairspray! My hair was on fire for like a minute! Thankfully, it didn't spread to anywhere besides the area I used hairspray on. I definitely do not light anything next to my head anymore.

[EndureEmo]

when i was 3, my sister used to call me a princess...
at the time i didnt know what it ment.
she said it as if it was a bad thing!

my sister would say "eliza, your such a princess"
i would say to mum "mum, sarah called me a princess"
and id storm of in a rage of anger,
and id slam my bedroom door and cry.

what kind of 3 year old has an additude to slam a bedroom door?
i mean O_o iv never seen a 3 year old know to do that before its more of a teenager thing to do!

i couldnt remember this, but mum and my sisters bring this up all the time! oviously at the time i was very angery, but i find it one of the funniest things in the world

[EndureEmo]

when i was 3, or 4 i used to want to be a little boy...
so one day i got a texter and drew a doodle on my belly, i thought i was cool walking back inside from playing as a boy. i was walking around for the rest of the day only playing with boy toys and not wearing pink!

[Choose]

When I was younger, I was going trick-or-treating with a bunch of friends. Part of my costume was one of those masks that you can see out of but no one can see in. Well, apparently when it's dark you can't see out of it as well.

I was running full speed, following my friends to the next house and I ran square into a big ol' tree. I blacked out for a couple minutes and woke up next to EMTs, seeing stars. I did not get a concussion, but it is hilarious looking back on it. Just running running running... POW! Right into a tree.

[Cabron]

I was talking to my friend online the other day and I got hungry, so I went to get up off my bed to go upstairs. I guess my mind was somewhere else because I managed to somehow trip on the upper corner of my bed (I had been lying on my stomach) and land on all fours on the ground. I just stayed like that for a minute wondering what just happened. Thank god no one saw me.