you feel it creeping up inside

it is the wrong time

totally inappropriate

can't help it, feel the tickle

lips curling, gonna loose it

yep, I've done it.  My son knows I have this tendency and just the other day he tripped and almost fell.  Watching his long legs and arm flailing through the air did it for me.  He quickly turned and looked right at me.  He had seen the squint in my eyes, the creasing in my lips and he knew... 

Then it came that big loud laughter.  I apologized as I did it.  I'm...so....sorry....know..it's.. not funny.

 It was contagious, he couldn't keep frowning at me as I belly laughed his misfortune.  Pretty soon we were both bellowing and I was so glad he was understanding of my inappropriate laughter.

Other times it has not been so easy.  You know you shouldn't but can't contain it.

My friends and I were at the hotel and needed help connecting a dvd.  The guy that came kept talking to himself.  I finally started to quickly shake.  My friends saw me and were trying not to get tickled and mouthed at me to stop. 

I tried, I really did.  They wouldn't look at me but could feel me shaking with laughter and again it was contagious.  Bad bad

My husband, who was a full time vocational minister for many years also knew my short coming.  One time in service, I was at the back and he was sitting at the Lord's supper table.  I couldn't see him very well and another man was talking.   My husband slowly etched his head over to the side to see me. 

All I could see was his little pin head moving to see me through all the little other heads.  It totally cracked me up.  A time when I should have been fully reflecting and meditating and I almost snorted. 

I shut my eyes so quickly as to think that if I could sqeeze them tight enough, my lips would continue to stay sealed.

Can you relate?  Let me know I am not the only inappropriate laugher.

Can anything be done?! :)

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Posted by Anonymous

Oh, definitely. My most frequent and worst time~while my youngest is saying the blessing at the dinner table! She says the cutest and funniest things sometimes.
It's so good to see you back. I'm glad you've had a wonderful time of catching up on friends and home. I know you are looking so forward to this next year. I pray God continues to provide a way for you to be able to stay home where you want to be.
Letitia

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Posted by jodyjarvis

My problem is making innappropriate comments. Both my husband and I have a sort of warped sense of humor. So sometimes we will be sitting in Sunday School and one of us will think of a funny thing and whisper it to the other and then have to try to stifle our giggles. Other times I will just blurt out a silly comment when I am in a group or when speaking to someone. I just think of something that tickles my funny bone and don't always stop to think if it is completely appropriate.

For example, recently a friend of mine became a grandmother for the first time. Her daughter named the little boy Leoni. I blurted out that it sounded like a good name for a pizza!

So I have to try really hard to keep my funny little thoughts to myself instead of letting them run out from between my lips or risk hurting someone's feelings or even spoiling a solemn mood, like at church.

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