Don't Juuuump....
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85147)
Shingle Springs, California
September 22, 2010 3:29pm CST
So I'm back from my walk (beautiful day today), and I walk up the stairs, and there is a guy in the hall looking into the elevator shaft, doing maintenance, I assume. And I suppress this overwhelming urge to shout "don't jump", walk back to my desk, and bust up laughing. Did you ever suppress an urge to do something like that? Did you ever actually do it?
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
22 Sep 10
Hi, Dawn!
Yup. I've done it, and once it resulted in a complaint to my boss, but it's usually just good for a shared laugh!
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@GardenGerty (159754)
• United States
22 Sep 10
I am sure I have on occasion suppressed such an urge, and then on other occasions have gone ahead and said it. I hate it when those sneaky little thoughts in my brain cause me to laugh maniacally for apparently no reason. People then wonder what it is I have been ingesting to cause me to behave that way.
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@BarBaraPrz (46490)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Sep 10
I used to get the urge to flip the hem when passing a guy in a kilt...
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
22 Sep 10
I'm sure I have but honestly I haven't thought of an example of when I thought something and never said it. I'm sure I've thought such things many times at work as you can't always express your humor or sarcasim there. Glad you had a nice walk on your lunch I used to do that from time to time when I worked full time. It was nice to get out from under those flourescent lights.
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@crysontherocks77 (1273)
• United States
22 Sep 10
okay, so most of mine is with road rage. Cause sometimes I wish I could just get out of my car and knock some common sense into those people. Especially those that do it on the intent to purposely make you have to stop or slow down when your on the inerstate or highway and they pull right in front of you with nothing behind you for atleast a mile.
@cloudwatcher (6861)
• Australia
26 Sep 10
Hi Dawn. I'm sure there are many times, but I can only think of one.
My friend was looking for a pot plant to hand on the wall above the toilet. She had looked at dozens but was still undecided. There was a nice Devil's Ivy which is very hardy and a great indoor plant. "But will it be suitable for the toilet?" she asked. So I looked at the ticket and read "Suitable for all indoor situations: kitchens, bathrooms, TOILETS etc" She grabbed it, bought it, and it wasn't until she got it home that she read the label. Enough said . . .
PS Years later it is still thriving and she has forgiven me.
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@cloudwatcher (6861)
• Australia
27 Sep 10
I'd never thought about "pot plant" before. It conjures up an unusual indoor decoration. You are right: it should be potted plant. Don't you call them pot plants there? Must be the lazy Aussie way.
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@cloudwatcher (6861)
• Australia
27 Sep 10
I must remember that if ever I visit there! I can imagine asking a shop assistant where they keep the pot plants. That would be worse than asking for the manchester department in England. (here in Oz all linen is called manchester and every department store has a manchester dept)
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@Erilyn (3020)
• United States
23 Sep 10
I wouldn't have been able to stop myself. I would have said it. I think my filter broke recently. I haven't been able to stop myself from saying things like that lately. We got a delivery at work today and the guy was trying do show me some magic tricks, I just looked at him. He was wondered why I wasn't amazed.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Sep 10
oh dawn yes I stifled my urge to say loudly oh you look just beautiful when I see this rather odd resident, a man who loves jewelry and wears earrings and a necklace set. He is not what I would call attractive poor man but he will stop and check his face in the long mirror in the hall
'and stand there for maybe several minutes. If I did not see he is male I would think its a woman cross dresser.He really is a personable person to talk too but he definitely has some womanish habits. I like him in spite of his checking his looks in the mirror.I have often wondered what he would think if I had blurted out"oh you look just beautiful" wow.![](/Content/images/emotes/rofl.gif)
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
23 Sep 10
Oh, I'd be resisting the urge to push him!![](/Content/images/emotes/devil.gif)
Yes, I do that many times. I just think my mind's way too mischievous than I can actually dare.
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@bluemoonpavilion (4658)
• Singapore
23 Sep 10
That was real funny dawn...
I think I'm evil sometimes. When I see my friend about to step into a puddle and I would shout out and the next I know she step in it and made her shoes all wet, then I would really laugh out loud.
For strangers, if I see something silly being done by someone in public, I would be more polite and laugh quietly to myself, but laughing nevertheless. ![](/Content/images/emotes/rofl.gif)
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@makingpots (11915)
• United States
23 Sep 10
Suppress the urge? Nah, I'd have said it, I'm sure I would have. If he didn't see the humor in it I would have just snickered on gone on about my business. I amuse myself. ![](/Content/images/emotes/doh.gif)
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@pinksplotch (268)
• Quezon City, Philippines
24 Sep 10
LOL.. i also had the same urge when i rode a jeepney (public utility vehicle) and there was this talkative lady with a big black mole at the tip of her nose. i was so irritated because she was so noisy i wanted to butt in "so why do you have a "booger?" i'm so mean! i was laughing hard deep down inside, LOL.
@prashant_utneja (44)
• United States
23 Sep 10
hmmm thats sound kinda funny, i did lots of funny thing in life however not like this one day one of my friend used to ask to everyone that you know who is my father offcourse he has rich father thats why he uses to ask this stupid question, but buy mistake when he asked me same thing for show-off i said to him.....dont you know who is your FATHER you should to see his face..
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@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Sep 10
hahaha
How about "don't you know who your father is? You are always telling us..."
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