When is laughing inappropriate?
By llowe3
@llowe3 (24)
United States
July 24, 2009 3:18pm CST
My biggest fear is laughing at the wrong time around people who do not know me very well. Although I am a very sensitive and caring person, I tend to find comedy in very sordid or morbid subjects. For example, if someone was relaying a story to me about their grandmother falling down the stairs, there is a good possibility I will giggle a little bit. How horrible for the both of us! It is awkward, but I have a twisted sense of humor.
I would naturally be concerned and want to know if the grandmother were alright, and convey my condolances as appropriate, but the initial thought will remain funny to me.
There are times when this quirk in humor has projected me and insensitive, mean, or juvenile. I take offense because of the many people I know, I am one of the most compassionate. I help whenever I can, I always consider other's perspectives and feelings. I certainly never intend on hurting anyone, but what I find funny, I cannot help.
2 responses
@zhuhuifen46 (3483)
• China
27 Jul 09
For cultural difference, I would not laugh with some of the western jokes. I mean the circumstances when someone gets hurt, or makes a fool of himself. Our first feeling is sympathy instead of laughing.
I understand, in different cultures, this may be regarded as humor. It is ok, but when entering a different culture, better respect the phylosophy or conventional thought of the local people. It is difficult though.
@llowe3 (24)
• United States
27 Jul 09
i have been emmersed in many cultures whether religious or ethnic, so i understand exactly what you speak of.
I have more trouble with scenarios such as watching a documentary in class, something odd may happen and i want to laugh. the more other people seem not to notice the comedy the funnier it gets to me, then i have to try harder to hold it in, and the harder i try, the worse it gets. I've had to leave a room before.
I don't know, laughing feels great. I guess I just have a healthy appetite for it.
@Sweetchariot (1718)
• United States
24 Jul 09
I also have a quirky sense of humor, and laugh when I sometimes am not supposed to. I have told a story here before, but for you I will tell it again, because even today, I can't stop laughing about it.
On my girlfriend's birthday, she returned home from work to find that someone had broken into ther house and stole some of her children's money. Because she also had to pick up her kids from school that day, she was too much in a hurry to do anything about it at the moment, so she ran back to her car, and sped down the street to meet her kids, when all of a sudden she heard the sirens, and was stopped by a police officer for speeding. When she pulled out her liscence to give him, they discovered that it had expired that day, and she should have renewed it before her birthday. So , the police officer made her park the car, and she was driven back to the police station. There she had to have a family member pick her up, and then pick up her kids. She was fined 50.00 for speeding and her liscense that was expired.
After she finally got home, she settled in for the evening, knowing that her family would be celebrating her birthday that following weekend...therefore she was not expecting any company.
However, her family, hearing of the bad luck that she had that day, they decided to go over her house and suprize her....my friend lived at the end of a long dark private driveway. On their way to her house, they proceeded down her driveway, and suddenly hit something with their car, and discovered they had run over my her dog, and actually killed it!!!!!!!!!!
ALL IN ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it! I felt so bad, but I couldn't stop laughing.
