Among Friends

[LyndaGee]

I was at a wake with my mother.  When we went up to the casket, I noticed my mom had the oddest look on her face as she viewed the body.  I started to giggle a little.  The Undertaker thought I was weeping and came over to comfort me.  Wow, I would've been so embarrassed if anybody caught me chuckling.

[TX-starlight]

A friend & I went to a bar I had never been before. I didn;t know a sole there, but she did. I went to dance with someone, while she was talking with a guy she knew. After the dance the guy asked for my #. I wrote on a napkin & handed it to him. The guy my friend was talking with said to me, "I can't believe you gave your # to a stranger. I laughed & told him it the police dept #. I still laugh about that, 30yrs later. 

I have MANY bar stories I could tell on here,lol. There are some good laughs on this thread!!

[mistriTsquirrel]

I worked at the front desk of a hotel when I was 18 or 19, and that job provided a few strange moments.

I remember one day--I think I was still new--I made a mistake.  A woman called for one of the railroad workers who regularly stayed at the hotel.  I looked to see what room he was in and connected her to his room.  Not long after that, I got a call from a woman who sounded like the same person, asking for the same guy.  I assumed I must've accidentally disconnected her when she had called a minute or so earlier.  So I apologized for that and connected her to his room.

Not long after that I got an angry call from that guy.  Apparently the first caller was his girlfriend and the second caller was his wife.  Whoops.

[jubilant]

When I was 21 I had to have a pretty major surgery which required a "bikini cut".  Needless to say, I had been seen "down yonder" by several doctors and specialists multiple times.  On the day I was to be released from the hospital, my family doctor came in to release me.  I was standing there talking to him and felt awkward as I was wearing a sun dress and all dressed to go home.  He was standing there looking at me and said he needed to check me out before I went home.  Standing there in front of him, I reached up under my dress and pulled my panties down.  He looked at me puzzled and asked,  "What are you doing"? Imagine, here I am standing right in front of him with my panties down to my ankles.  I said, "Oh, I thought you wanted to check me out"?  He looked at me and said, "All I want to do is press on your tummy".....I must have turned 20 shades of red as I very quietly reached down and pulled my panties up!!  I was so embarrassed. I'll bet my doctor and the nurses had a good laugh on that one! Being only 21 and having already lost all dignity....I felt so stupid!  

[FuzzyFace]

oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one who remembers that episode!

"A little song

 A little dance

 A little seltzer down your pants"

[RedTop]

Picture this, West Virginia, little country church, no air conditioning, and my uncles funeral.   

The church was totally packed with people, and flowers that stifling August day.   My grandmother had asked her good friends (a married couple) to sing my uncles favorite hymn.   The woman is playing the piano, and her husband is standing to her left, a few steps forward.  There’s a vase of roses on the piano close to him.   They start singing the song, loudly, since the church had no amplifiers or speaker system.   

I was seated in the pew with my cousin and brothers, and all was calm until my cousin and I spot a big bee buzzing around the flowers.   It was flying back and forth between the many arrangements, and then found the roses on the piano.   About this time our singing duo got to the chorus, and when the man opened his mouth wide to sing it loud and proud, the bee nearly flew into his mouth, which scared him and he backed up, nearly turning the vase of roses over, as well as almost knocking over the standing spray behind him.   

At this point my cousin and I totally lost it and burst into uncontrollable laughter.   We instantly dropped our heads to hide the fact we were laughing, and next thing I knew one of the people seated behind us was rubbing our backs in a comforting measure, thinking we were sobbing.   We laughed so hard we cried, so our eyes were very red when the service was over.   

For many years, our entire family thought my cousin and I fell apart with grief that day, and we never said anything different.  Sometime within the last 10 years my mom started talking about her brother, the funeral, and how all the neighborhood gossips turned out for the funeral to see if his ex-wives showed up.   They showed up, and all were seated with our family.   When Mom came across the grief thing again, I fessed up about the fact we were laughing.   No one else saw that bee!   

[haddon9]

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@embgm wrote:

My 80 year old mother went for a mammogram after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of her age she hadnt had one in a number of years. The technician asked her if she had any implants and she replied yes. The tech seemed surprised and asked in one or both breasts. Her response was in her mouth.

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@embgm  OMG!   Too funny!  I could see my 91 year old mother with the same response!!  Ha Ha!

[Leiloni]

Talk about some funny stories, it is 3:43 a.m. PST & I'm laughing so hard my cats looking at me like I'm crazy, I woke her up! These stories are soooo FUNNY! I haven't laughed this hard in quite some time, thank you!!! All of them are equally as funny, my tummy hurts, thx for the great, long laugh!

[Starpolisher]

At Sunday mass there are always two collections. My ddil always gives my two year old granddaughter some money to put into the basket.Two weeks ago at mass, as the second collection was being taken, my darling two year old granddaughter reached her little hand out to the usher. As he stopped and pushed the basket towards her, she excitedly said "I want some money too!" My ddil and I couldn't help but laugh as did the others seated around us!

[mistriTsquirrel]

I remember when my dad was in the hospital, and they wanted to do a second biopsy of his femur.

Apparently this involved a hammer and some sort of chisel.  ::cringe::

Anyway, he was in recovery for awhile, and was saying how much it s*cked to have to lie there while the doctor was hammering away.  So I guess he was aware of what was going on, even with sedation.

When he was being wheeled out of the recovery room, my sibling and I thanked the nurses for taking care of him.  Then my dad said, "yeah, thanks for beating the **** out of me with a hammer."

 At least his sense of humor was still intact.