most inappropriate time you have laughed/smiled?

[SteveArt]

i think for me , when i was in school i used to smile when i was being told off.

Funeral. Wasn’t upset by the death of the person but they were a partner of a relative. Their mum was very elderly and emotional (obviously) so I felt choked up on their behalf.
Front row of church having had to walk in behind coffin and brothers stomach made the loudest most fart sound ever.
We shook and cried silently.
Everyone thought we were upset. We weren’t. We had the hysterical emotional giggles.
Awful

At school we were told in assembly that someone in our year had been airlifted to hospital the night before with a very serious illness they were unlikely to survive. As me and my friend were walking to our first lesson we were trying to cheer each other up. She said something that made me laugh just as we opened the door to the classroom. The room was in silence and lots of people in tears and they all turned and stared at me, I felt awful!

My mum, gran, sister and I were at mass when I was a teenager. The priest was new and had an odd speech impediment where he would elongate syllables of certain words, eg 'In the name of theeee Father.' First time he did it my gran lost it, she was squeaking and shaking. That set my mum off, which set me and my sister off. It was a small quiet church and we were very near the front. It was just awful. We couldn't stop. Every time he did it (which was every second sentence) gran started again. We felt so bad because he could see us. I felt sick afterwards from holding in the laughter.

Oh God, I blush even now. I rang a magazine to ask if I could speak with a particular cookery writer. The person who'd answered the phone said she was very sorry, but the writer in question had died. I laughed out of sheer nerves. They were very short with me, understandably. I was very young at the time.

For me it happened in school, during a class my teacher started crying because a parent had recently passed away, the whole class was silent until I let out an uncomfortable laugh.. I still feel awful about it, she was one of my favourite teachers!

Also at a funeral of an extended family member. I wasn’t close to them at all. My dad was beside me and doing silly awkward shuffling and pulling weird faces because he was squished up and his shirt coat was irritating him and I just caught glimpse of him pulling a really stupid face and burst out laughing. I was mortified. Still am. People turned and looked at me like didnt blame them.

My grans funeral, my stomach rumbled really loudly and I caught my brothers eye at just the wrong moment, his lip twitched and that did it. It was awful, took us a good 10 minutes to stop silently sobbing with laughter and even longer before we could safely look at each other again.

My grandads funeral. I was devastated but when the minister got the name of every grandchild wrong and ended the list "Kylie and Jason" I became a bit hysterical. Even my nan looked around and mouthed "who?" at my aunts. I was half crying/laughing and desperately tried to stop, but actually we all laughed about it afterwards and I know my grandad would have laughed his head off.

@Booboopidoo it was my grans partners funeral

DM and I travelled a long way to Aunt's funeral, I was driving. Had a nightmare journey, lots of unexpected delays, really worried we'd be late, so DM getting stressed. We knew we were close but not sure which way to go at the next big roundabout. DM is looking off to the left muttering, 'Think it's that way' so doesn't see what I'm pointing to when I say, 'Do you think she's in there?' DM says, 'Hmm, who, where?' And turns round as i say 'Aunty, in there!' To see that I've stopped at the lights behind a hearse. The look on my mother's face- I thought I'd given her a heart attack! Once she got over the shock, she said Follow that hearse! It was Aunty and we followed the hearse but I had to park behind a van so that we could compose ourselves and stop laughing hysterically before my cousin saw us. Aunt would've loved it.

An elderly man collapsed in front of me, smashed his head onto a wall then ended up laying half in the road. Blood everywhere, he was unconscious, cars driving past almost hitting him.
I burst into hysterical laughter, tears down my face from laughing so much. Luckily some other people had saw what had happened and ran over to help. I departed the scene.

The day after my Dad died Unexpectedly.
My DB and me thought we had better find out what we had to do enxt and visited two funeral homes. Co-op were fab.. kind and straightforward.
The other... spoke to us in fake hushed tones, insisted we needed a million expensive extras and they opened their coffin brochure (very glossy ) with coffins starting at 3k!

I thought 'Fuck me, for that price I'd want Dad stuffed and mounted in the living room'

Then I heard a snort... it was DB... I hadn't thought it, I'd SAID it out loud.
We both collapsed laughing and made a swift exit!!!!

To be fair, My Dad would have also howled with laughter!!!

When my Dad broke the news that my Grandad had had a massive heart attack and wasn’t expecting to make it through the night. I just laughed,a horrible sniggery laugh. I was about 14 at the time,20 years later and I still feel bad about it. I had the same reaction when our form teacher told us our classmate had died in a hit and run.

My lovely friends grandfather died very suddenly and I burst out laughing when she told me, I still feel dreadful about it and can only put it down to shock.
We're still good friends about 40 years later but I've never forgotten it.

Aunt's funeral. Was held in a large church and they had a microphone, at the start of the service something was obviously not connected right and it made the loudest echoing fart noise for a good 5-10 seconds. I made eye contact with DH and we just lost it, shoulders shaking, trying to stay silent...hopefully we managed to disguise it as crying but I'm sure we weren't the only ones trying not to laugh in that moment!

@SteveArt

I did that in school too. I also do it now when confronted with something uncomfortable...it's rarely well received. Especially since it makes me look guilty of something.

At my school leaver's service, I was in the first year at school and in the choir. The school secretary sang at the service too and she had a very operatic voice. My friend caught my eye and I simply couldn't stop giggling (silently).

Music teacher gave me a cross look.

She used to sing at every leavers' service - so did the choir. Even in the upper sixth when leaving myself I was hard pushed to act in a mature serious way and not to giggle thinking about the previous years' gigging.

Seems laughter and death are a common partner....

I remember being very young - about 6 or so. Me, my DB, DM, DGM and DGF in the car. We were calling at a friend of GP's to collect some plants. DGM goes to get in the car, misses, falls down the gap between the kerb and the car. I scream, DM laughs and DB is just stunned. DGM gets up, covered in soil - in her hair, mouth, ears.....

Well when I feel nervous or awkward I laugh so there's been a few. Last week I gave evidence in court and did it....

I see your funerals and raise you..when viewing the body of an elderly relative.
Was led through the hushed plushly carpeted halls of the chapel of rest by a very obsequious and euphemistic funeral director to the room where Great Aunt Agnes was laid out in her Sunday Best.
Lost the plot didn't I. Tears, shaking, totally uncontrollable laughter. Had to go outside and didn't manage to pull myself together to go back in.

Me and DH laughed and snorted all the way through our wedding vows! No idea why we just could not calm down, but I thought we'd end up getting told to leave still cringe at it!! On a plus note our wedding photos are great and natural haha!

At my grandad's funeral earlier this year. It was led by my gran's brother, who is a minister for the batshit wee free so the speech was lovely and personal. However, he is the only religious person in the whole extended family and he went on a bit of a Christian tangent while glaring at us in the front row.

My mum caught my eye and we started silently laughing, which I don't think helped our case with my Great Uncle.

I cried with laughter through and old relatives funeral many years ago.

The person doing the service (vicar?preist? Idk, I was only 14 can't remember), anyway he spoke in broken English, I think my mum said he was from Poland, again not too sure

Old relative was called Bob. Broken English man kept referring to Baowwwwb - the whole family failed to find the humour and I'm lucky to still be part of it tbh.

At least 30 years later it was brought up at a family gathering where they all said how awful I was! I was like come on, can you honestly not see how funny that was, but apparently not. So not only was I a terrible person back then, I have failed to mature into a batter one according to them, bc i still find it funny

Through my entire wedding ceremony. I could barely say the vows through the shaking/ tears. Dh was just looking at me like wtf. Nerves do strange things to people.

The pp about the new minister nearly made me spit out my tea

The scattering of my mans ashes.

The funeral director was with us saying a lovely poem but it seemed to go on forever - showing my age here but I tried my best to hide my giggles and eventually turned to my brother and said

"this is an art attack, THIS is an art attack, THIS IS ART ATTACK"

He couldnt stop laughing and my mum overheard too and started smiling, it was actually a nice icebreaker.

and for those not old enough to get the reference, the man on art attack would draw huge pictures out of a can of seemingly never ending salt!!