I Laughed Because...

These stories are so funny!

Over the weekend, it was my uncle's birthday, so we ordered a cake and some food for him when he visited. My grandma had been saying how my grandpa never eats pasta and doesn't like it, but when it came time to order food he and my grandpa asked for pasta. Turns out, it's just her pasta that they don't like.

Another thing that made me laugh a few months ago when my sister had a non-epileptic seizure while eating a mango. This isn't as scary as it sounds because her doctors have told us that she isn't in danger of choking when she has them and that she still has some awareness. The mango just slowly slid out of her mouth in slow-motion and it looked really funny. I can't mention this to her because she triggers another seizure for some reason. Some of the things that trigger the seizures are pretty strange and funny too. She doesn't seem to like hearing the word 'banana' or seeing a banana so they are banned in our house. She also doesn't like the word 'armpit'. I know it sounds weird, but we manage to find some humour in it and her hospital team had a good laugh with us about these triggers too.

What an awesome idea for a thread, @WheresMySquishy ! 

I am not the most mechanically minded person in the world but I do try and give things a red hot go - on the weekend, I was trying to put a netball hoop and base thing together that we got my daughter for her birthday. It turns out it was a LOT harder than I thought it would be, but I was determined not to give up - it turns out my partner was quietly watching me from upstairs and filming me on a timelapse, and that video is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. I laughed until I was crying. It kind of reminds me of the little industrious characters on Animal Crossing building something really busily - except in my case, I didn't build anything 

Hahaha that's so funny @Janine-RO! It sounds like something I would do.

I've had a lot of funny moments playing video games. Many years ago, when Harvest Moon: Animal Parade came out, my sister decided to have her character marry Wizard. When it was her character's birthday, they had a little party in her house. We were all really excited to see what would happen because we hadn't experienced this event before. Wizard presented her with a birthday present and we were all drumrolling... It turned out to be an eel. A live, wriggling eel. I couldn't stop laughing! Needless to say, my sister was unimpressed. He was such a sweetheart and was a great husband other than that.
I've also been given some weird gifts from the villagers in the latest Animal Crossing such as a toilet, a bidet, a garbage can and a shower. It makes me wonder if our villagers are trying to be passive-aggressive!

Yesterday I laughed because I made a huge mess... I spilt orange juice all over three loads of my washing haha. It was such a huge mess that I couldn't help but laugh! It was like something out of a cartoon show  On the bright side, it gave me something to do with my afternoon!

Haha I'm really clumsy too @Jess1-RO! 🙂 I've wrecked a lot of electronics that way.

Today, I laughed because I finally realised that the compounding chemist mixed up my eye drop prescription and gave me my old lower dose instead of my new higher dose (the difference is 10 times higher than the old dose). I had been using it for a month thinking that it was the higher dose without realising until I tried to get a new bottle and compared the label to my dad's, who was using the higher dose.

I love this thread!

Lately I've been running a program on my laptop that's helping with COVID-19 research (https://foldingathome.org/ if anyone's interested) and when I set it to high, like I did today, it uses soooo much battery. I was using my laptop and it told me my battery was low, so I plugged the charger in. Ten minutes later it ran out anyway! I laughed because my first thought was "me too laptop, I also sometimes work too hard and fall asleep at awkward times"

My sister and I are playing a detective/mystery game we haven't played before and it's made us laugh a lot, just because of how incompetent the investigators are. I turned to her and said, 'We've played a lot of these kinds of games and I think these have to be the worst investigators we've ever seen' and she agreed. It's almost as if they are determined not to solve the cases. The whole plot has been full of blunders so far.

The juxtaposition between us trying to solve the cases and what the characters actually do is hilarious too.
The 'victim' turns up alive? Maybe the body was misidentified then. Nope, the investigators think the victim must have come back to life.
Since there was an autopsy report, the body must still be at the morgue. Can we go there and order some tests to find out some things? Nope, the game casually tells us the body has disappeared from the scene. I said to the screen, 'What? How? When? Why? Wasn't anyone staying with the body?' Apparently, there was a more than one hour window where the investigators left the body totally unattended. But no matter, because all this is immediately forgotten about and dropped as a potential line of investigation.
Let's go interrogate the first suspect we see, despite the fact that we haven't questioned a witness who we've established has already seen the body and may be able to tell us more about what happened. While we're at it, let's take another vulnerable witness to meet with a bunch of gangsters without any security present.
We go and question another suspect (known to be a serial killer) with absolutely zero safety measures in place. He attacks the investigators, steals a gun and escapes. Quick, let's jump into our car after him and send his description out to all the police departments in the area. Maybe we can use the resources at our disposal and set up a trap. Instead, the investigators just stand around chatting and quickly forget that there is an armed killer on the loose.

Maybe the game will provide some kind of explanation for the characters' actions later on but right now, it's funny and mildly infuriating at the same time.

My mum got Macy a dummy and she’s been running around the house with it.. she’s crazy  

Oh my goodness @Bananatime04 , seeing this has honestly made my afternoon! The look on Macy's little face is hilarious, and she makes the dummy look so massive! 

Today, my ophthalmologist's office called to ask me to reschedule the appointment. My mum answered the phone and said, 'Where in the hospital are you?' thinking that it was my nephrologist's office calling. Then they said they weren't in a hospital and were the ophthalmology office. My mum said, 'Oh, I thought you were her nephrologist. She's just got so many problems, I get confused with them all.' Then later, my mum asked me if I had the referral for Mahmoud. I said, 'Who is Mahmoud?' She said, 'Your ophthalmologist'. It's funny because his name is not even close to that.

Something funny happened again today! My sister was having physio at our house when one of her teachers called to introduce himself as her previous teacher was going on leave. My mum talked to him, but every so often he would get interrupted by my sister letting out a scream from the physio touching and moving her legs in the background. So he would say something, and then pause for about ten seconds, then start talking again, then have to stop. My mum explained to him that she was doing physio and he said, 'That reminds me of when I used to have physio and it brought me to tears!' Then the physio said, 'Wonder what happened to him?'

I laughed this morning when my housemates barged into my room this morning with coffee, demanding that I get out of bed and hang out on the balcony. They may or may not have had to pull me out by my feet 

I had a good laugh because I thought I saw my sister eating a slice of pizza, when it was actually a finger bun! I asked her how the 'pizza' was and she burst out laughing and eventually told me it was a finger bun. This was at 3am and in my defence, I didn't have my glasses on and my vision tends to get blurred regardless of what prescription I'm on.

Yesterday I laughed because I bought my friend a bunch of enamel pins off Etsy and finally brought them to her house! She absolutely loved them, but then when her mum walked in the room loudly goes "LOOK WHAT MUM GOT ME!" promptly confusing everyone in the room at once 

A better story was last Friday when I made myself a banana cake with cream cheese icing. I was telling my parents I wanted first slice since I made it, so went to shower and my dad says through the door as I'm getting changed 'Uh Stormy, you might want to look at your cake'. I yelled out 'you haven't eaten it have you?!' and he said no... turns out the cat likes cream cheese there was a big, cat-tongue sized lick over a quarter of it which we had to cut off! It was my first time making cream cheese icing so I guess that's a compliment?

Bahaha @StormySeas17 that's hilarious. I had something similar happen to me with my old cat, Puss. I went to have a slice of cheesecake, and I put it down on the table while I went somewhere for a second. I came back and it was ALL eaten by her. I was shocked. And...while we're on this topic...fun fact - cats can't actually taste sugar....so like what the?? Haha.

@Maddy-RO oh my gosh what a cat! She must have really wolfed it down! I've heard about the sugar thing with cats, I was actually thinking the same thing with my icing  I made a second cake to share with a friend and as soon as he saw it he made a beeline for it again! I had to put it in a container and give him a spoonful off the top. If we're going with cat facts, it's fun to know most cats are completely lactose intolerant! 

I once had a dog who LOVED sweet food- dogs can taste it because they're omnivores I think? Anyway, one day my dad had ice cream and couldn't finish it so put it on the floor next to him on the lounge. The dog wandered up, had a sniff, ate the WHOLE unfinished scoop, stopped for a moment, then started whimpering and crying on the spot. She gave herself a brain freeze and didn't know what to do  

Ahahahhaaha oh don't worry @Bananatime04 ! I'll definitely get my own back tomorrow!

I love how so many of these are animal-related!

Today, I laughed at a video of an adorable dog splashing in a paddling pool. There was an accompanying video of the same dog getting cosy in a bucket of water too.