*Have you ever wanted to laugh SO BAD but couldn't?

kellyyfaber · Apr 24, 2005

It's really really hard for me not to laugh when something is funny. I'm the type of person that if you fall, I will laugh first *then* see if you're ok. I can't help it. I wanted to hear stories from everyone about a time that they were *dying* to laugh but couldn't. Here's mine. Let's hear yours!!!

I was managing at Enterprise Rent-a-Car a while back and part of that job is giving the customers a ride if they need one after they returned their rental car. I had this one older gentleman that gave me a rough time from the moment he walked in the door, he griped about everything. We were busy so he had to wait about 10 min. and he griped about that. I had to answer the phone while I assisted him and he griped about that. The insurance company would only cover a mid size car and he griped about that. I put him into his rental car and he said the dashboard and windsheild was dirty. I just wanted to get him out of there so I personally washed the windshield and I soaked the dashboard with ArmorAll so he wouldn't have anything else to complain about. After a week, he returned the car and he needed a ride back to his bodyshop so I gave him a ride. He had a flashlight in his hand and he put it on the dashboard. I was stopped at a stoplight and he was complaining about how crappy the rental car was. When the light turned green and I pulled out, the flashlight slid off the dash and nailed the old guy in the....um..family jewels. I guess I had used too much ArmorAll on the dashboard (that HE made me clean) Anyway, it was so funny all I could do was sit there with my mouth wide open until I eventually faked a cough. When he got out of the car, I laughed so hard that when I got back to the office, everyone thought the guy had been mean to me and I was crying.

cheeseface · Apr 24, 2005

That is soooo funny and it sounds like the guy deserved it!

kellyyfaber · Apr 24, 2005

Originally Posted by Hydroaxe

That is soooo funny and it sounds like the guy deserved it!

Yes, it was irony in its purest form. The very dashboard he made me clean was his undoing

You've gotta love karma

beckiboo · Apr 24, 2005

Ah, sweet revenge! I worked at Waccamaw Linen in Charleston South Carolina back in the mid 1980's. They sold artificial plants.
One lady asked if they needed to be watered. I said, no, it's artificial, not alive. She said I know, but does it have to be watered? It was hard not to laugh at her.
Another customer asked if the beach towels were for drying off or for laying in the sun. I told her they could be used for both-but later my boss asked why I didn't sell her TWO beach towels, one for drying off, and one to lay in the sun!

maverick_kitten · Apr 24, 2005

when i had to cut a snooty customer out of a dress in the changing rooms of a shop i used to work in. to make matters worse she was trying it on with no underwear!!

couldnt wait for her to leave so i could tell everyone!!

kellyyfaber · Apr 24, 2005

Originally Posted by Beckiboo

Another customer asked if the beach towels were for drying off or for laying in the sun. I told her they could be used for both-but later my boss asked why I didn't sell her TWO beach towels, one for drying off, and one to lay in the sun!

That's so funny! Anyone who has ever worked with the public has a story or two about dumb customers!

kellyyfaber · Apr 24, 2005

Originally Posted by maverick_kitten

when i had to cut a snooty customer out of a dress in the changing rooms of a shop i used to work in. to make matters worse she was trying it on with no underwear!!

couldnt wait for her to leave so i could tell everyone!!

OMG it would've been VERY VERY hard not to just bust out laughing. I'll bet you really just had to bite your tongue.

maverick_kitten · Apr 24, 2005

especially as we couldnt both fit in the cubicle and she had to move into the communal change area to be cut out of the dam thing!

i didnt know where to look and was really conscious of where to cut!

cheeseface · Apr 24, 2005

Originally Posted by maverick_kitten

when i had to cut a snooty customer out of a dress in the changing rooms of a shop i used to work in. to make matters worse she was trying it on with no underwear!!

couldnt wait for her to leave so i could tell everyone!!

Originally Posted by Beckiboo

Ah, sweet revenge! I worked at Waccamaw Linen in Charleston South Carolina back in the mid 1980's. They sold artificial plants.
One lady asked if they needed to be watered. I said, no, it's artificial, not alive. She said I know, but does it have to be watered? It was hard not to laugh at her.
Another customer asked if the beach towels were for drying off or for laying in the sun. I told her they could be used for both-but later my boss asked why I didn't sell her TWO beach towels, one for drying off, and one to lay in the sun!

That's hilarious!!!

rapunzel47 · Apr 24, 2005

Originally Posted by Kellyyfaber

Yes, it was irony in its purest form. The very dashboard he made me clean was his undoing

You've gotta love karma

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person

mom of franz · Apr 24, 2005

Easily about a dozen years ago, I was in a patients room helping the traction guy set up the traction for a patients bed. The patient's nurse, a great nurse but a real whirling dervish came in with the patient's meds. She poured the patient's meds and filled her plastic cup with water to take them. About 3 seconds later, she spat out the water, sprayed us all, and announced, "I just drank my own urine!" The nurse's aide had just left the room after getting her routine urine sample. She had forgotten to dispose of the unneeded urine. I ran out of there so fast, found an empty room and laughed my ass off. The traction guy was right behind me.

KittenKrazy · Apr 24, 2005

A couple of years ago we had a lady in who asked to use our phone. My clerk politely told her that we didn't have one, she'd have to go next door to the gas station and use theirs. Upon hearing that, the lady got really, really huffy and called my clerk a liar and asked her why she couldn't use that phone that was on the counter beside her right hand...... with a straight face, Lisa told her "because that's the bar code scanner, not a phone!" I'll give us both credit, we didn't laugh until the lady finished stomping out the door!!

Oh, and there was a little old lady who needed to use the bathroom really bad, and since the ladies room was occupied, we told her that it was ok to use the mens. Mind you now, when I say little old lady, I mean in her 80's probably, ok? When she came out, she asked her daughter what that thing was on the wall (meaning the urinal)!

cazx01 · Apr 25, 2005

yes! i'm the type of person who laugh's in most situations

Like once i was in town with my friend, she slipped on the curb and went fflying..... omg i couldnt stop laughing to save my life, i was crying with laughter

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But i also laugh when i'm nervous too

lillekat · Apr 25, 2005

Alex got me a good'un yesterday afternoon actually. I was trying to tell him off for snatching a biscuit from my hand when I offered him one. I don't like a child with no manners... so a let him know and I prompted him, in the hope he'd remember to be polite....

"Alex... you mustn't snatch, it's not nice. Now where are your manners? What do you say? Th-"

"thorry"

I did kinda ask for that one really... but I had to turn my back so that I could s****** and pretend I was coughing. If I'd laughed to his face the telling off woudln't have worked!

kellyyfaber · Apr 25, 2005

Originally Posted by Mom of Franz

Easily about a dozen years ago, I was in a patients room helping the traction guy set up the traction for a patients bed. The patient's nurse, a great nurse but a real whirling dervish came in with the patient's meds. She poured the patient's meds and filled her plastic cup with water to take them. About 3 seconds later, she spat out the water, sprayed us all, and announced, "I just drank my own urine!" The nurse's aide had just left the room after getting her routine urine sample. She had forgotten to dispose of the unneeded urine. I ran out of there so fast, found an empty room and laughed my ass off. The traction guy was right behind me.

I don't think I could have made it out without laughing. I think that might be the best one so far!

These are great guys!!! Thanks for sharing, I needed the laughs.

meiam · Apr 25, 2005

this weekend actually the dishwasher at my parents business called in because he shot himself in the foot!!

how do you shoot yourself?

i thought it was hilarious...he isn't the brightest guy anyway

katspixiedust · Apr 25, 2005

These are all soooooo funny!

I'm having a hard time thinking of one of my own right now, though I KNOW I've had plenty (I'm constantly laughing)!!! Hmmmmm.........

brianlojeck · Apr 25, 2005

I'm in a supermarket that keeps the condoms locked up in a glass case (like they do with booze.) A customer is looking in, with a staff member standing by to unlock the door. the customer asks "Do these come any smaller?", at which point the poor teenage staff guy almost fell over trying not to laugh. To his credit he didn't let out a chuckle, although I think he had to hold his breath to do it.

Turns out the guy wanted a box with less condoms in it, but it took that corner of the store a good long while to stop snickering... ;-)

katspixiedust · Apr 25, 2005

Originally Posted by brianlojeck

I'm in a supermarket that keeps the condoms locked up in a glass case (like they do with booze.) A customer is looking in, with a staff member standing by to unlock the door. the customer asks "Do these come any smaller?", at which point the poor teenage staff guy almost fell over trying not to laugh. To his credit he didn't let out a chuckle, although I think he had to hold his breath to do it.

Turns out the guy wanted a box with less condoms in it, but it took that corner of the store a good long while to stop snickering... ;-)

Nice one! But...they keep the condoms LOCKED UP?! That sounds intimidating!!! lol

kellyyfaber · Apr 25, 2005

Originally Posted by katspixiedust

Nice one! But...they keep the condoms LOCKED UP?! That sounds intimidating!!! lol

...putting up just one more obstacle for the guys to overcome.

They're pretty tough on guys in CA evidently.

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