Memories that make you laugh out loud

[Mammyloveswine]

I hope I'm not being unreasonable on a Friday night to ask for those memories that when you remember them have you randomly laughing away.. . Even when you're in public (I.e sat on the bus..)

Here's mine...

When we both still lived at home my sister was laying in bed late one night, having fallen asleep listening to her iPod.. the next thing she is rudely awoken by our naked mother landing on top of her! Turns out my mum (pissed) had taken a wrong turn on the way to the toilet, wandered into my sister's room, slipped on a magazine and landed on my poor sister! Even funnier was that my poor mum broke her thumb in the process!

It still makes me laugh when I think about it now

Alan’s Funny Stories...

I was 14 on holiday in orlando and we went to a resturant and my dad was as usual chatting to anyone that would listen! He has a scottish accent an. he suddenly said in the poshest we have those at hame then looked at mum and said hame hame why did i say that the four of us just died laughing for the rest of the meal. It was 22years ago but it still makes me died laughing when i think of my dads face when he said it!!! It was a def you had to be there i often wonder if the waiter thought it was as funny !

Many years ago, when I was at uni, I took on a holiday job at a nursing home. It was quite a posh nursing home, which curiously had previously been the private school I had gone to before it closed down. I got drunk at the work Christmas party and remember being taken home in a taxi singing Jingle Bells (I would have to be drunk to do that lol). Then when I arrived home, my mum was standing in the doorway watching me being helped into the house by a family friend who I really fancied. He found it hilarious but my mum really didn’t, her face was a picture!

Thank you for this thread, great idea!!

Years ago my brother and I went to see 'Thriller', the Michael Jackson musical. It was part of a social thing arranged by my work and there had been a free bar beforehand so he was a bit tipsy. This was evidenced by him dancing along - he would normally consider himself way too cool for that. Anyway, the finale involved dancers dressed as the 'Thriller' zombies creeping down the aisle and onto the stage. My brother was on the end of our aisle and didn't notice the first zombie until it was totally level with him. He jumped in the air, face full of panic and started trying to slap the zombie away (think of a very camp doggy paddle style slapping!) Even the other dancers started laughing. It was so out of character for him that I'm still laughing about it 15 years later...

My funniest one is from way back in the early days with my now DH. We were both teenagers at university and were cosying up on my (single) bed watching a film. He was spooning me and - as teenage boys do - was a little ‘excited’ He whispered in my ear “is my elbow digging in to you?” To which I replied “no, your elbow isn’t...” and then I burst out laughing uncontrollably. He leaned back against the wall but the bed was on coasters on a tiled floor so it rolled out and he slid down pinned between the wall and the bed. I’ll never forget his face when he realised he was going down!

😂 loving this thread!

Sixth form college. My friend Tim was fooling around before the tutor arrived, doing handstands on the desk, using the wall behind him to balance.

Me: Careful! You'll put your foot through the window.

Tim: I won't!

He kicked up into another handstand and his foot went straight through the window.

This was on the way to the airport. We arrived at the airport parking id booked but they had no record of us.
Husband went up to the desk with the paperwork and went to sit down on a chair sort of sideways but because he had a rucksack on he completely overbalanced and literally cartwheeled over the chair, legs right up in the air and landed in a heap the other side. Me and our son who was 5 were crying with laughter and H got really annoyed which just made it funnier.
Every time I had almost composed myself son would re-enact it again and set me off again.

To add insult to injury it emerged I'd booked us into a different car park, not the one of directed him to.
H only cheered up when we (finally) got on the airport shuttle bus and my badly positioned luggage fell off the rack and gave me a fat lip.

Gre8

I’m Scottish too, and I am PMSL at your dad speaking Pan Loaf!

We were in Orlando years ago and we taught the taxi driver “Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff The Bus”

I was having a heart to heart with my workmate in the coffee room, she was telling me a story of a lady she used to care for with dementia. She was reiterating something the lady had said about a baby she'd lost and often saw it in strange places. She was giving me the dialogue and pointed under my chair. I was so caught up in the story that I screamed, pulled my feet up onto my chair and tipped over backwards and crashed to the floor. She was laughing so hard and I was laid out in a giggling mess, heart pounding and still trying to look for the bloody baby.

Went to a nice little cafe one Sunday afternoon with my parents. The table we were sitting at had a curved edged, and when my DF went to cut into his cheese toastie the plate slid off the edge and the toastie, side salad and plate ended up on his knee. DM and I almost passed out from laughing, which made DF even more annoyed which made us laugh even more. Must have been about fifteen years ago and we still laugh about it now.

Also one of my Uncles got horrendously drunk at my Auntie's annual Xmas party. He removed a set of battery powered led lights from the Christmas tree, wrapped them around his head then collapsed against the wall then fell into a huge cabinet filled with expensive pottery and knocked it over. It truely is the funniest thing Ive ever seen in my life.

Another one with an ex Best Friend story...

I needed a new dress for a party, she persuaded me to try on this sheath like dress with a frilled hem, which was a little, ahem, tight. I got it on all right, but having established it was not for me, we then had to get me out of it. BF pulled it up by the hem to try to pull it over my head, and I got completely stuck in it, with the frilled hem jammed around my head.

BF said, 'you look like a sunflower', and that was it. We had complete hysterics in that changing room, me in my undies with that bloody dress stuck around my face. It took about ten minutes to extricate me (and I had a feeling we had to rupture a seam to do that). But the memory of being that helpless with laughter, in my bra and knickers , has stayed with me for nearly forty years...

Dh is a builder and has to wear heavy steel capped boots to work.
He used to give me a lift to the station every day in his work van.
He would moan and rant that I was making him late if I was not completely ready to leave when he was ready.
Cue, every day him standing by the door shouting "You are holding me up, I'm ready to go, come on, come on" then once in the van it would be more of the same "I'm going to be late you know etc, etc (winge winge).
This particular day was no different, we got in the van with him going on, and on.
Being used to it I mentally switched off and got out of the van to get my bag which DH had stashed in the back, DH decided I was taking too long and flew out of the driving seat dropping his keys , he bent down to pick them up and started to shout, repeating " Oh Fuck it, fuck it" at the top of his voice , in his temper he was stamping his feet and jumping about like a tantruming toddler, still shouting "Fuck it"
I looked down at the keys , still in the road and realised that he was going to work on a building site in his bedroom slippers!

That was the only day he was truly late for work.

Lovely thread, really did laugh out loud.

My dh best friend is hilarious. Not sure why really. He stays with us a lot and they are often referred to us ant and Dec. They just bounce of each other in a really lovely way. I've never had that with a friend I don't think. They really make me laugh.

One that's stuck with me of our own was dh and I on holiday years ago. We went to village in the highlands with the dog for a weekend. Arrived and headed straight to the pub for tea. It was a beautiful evening and the outside tables were all over the lawn surrounding a lovely pond. I was sipping my wine and looked up and said what's wrong with the ducks. Dh just started running. He never runs. It was like the you tube clip with the owner screaming Fenton. Our dog had chewed her lead and was almost water skiing across the pond chasing the ducks. I could not stop laughing. Proper can't breathe laughing. Everyone else was joining in. There were ducks everywhere and every time dh got near her she took off again. She didn't hurt them it was just the flapping made her chase them. He was soaking, flapping and shouting. The barman gave him a free drink for the entertainment and a nice lady gave us her spare lead. Still makes me smile after all these years.

My funniest memories always involve DSis, she's a walking disaster! (She's also on MN so apologies sis )

A quick list of her funniest moments include:
Getting into the back of a taxi after a night in the pub only to have the driver turn round and ask her what she was doing in his car - not a taxi at all.

Calling me one day and sounding very far away, then all of a sudden laughing at full volume - she had the phone upside down.

Trying to find her seat on a plane and tripping over something and flying head first down the aisle.

Being H&S champion at work and walking into to a H&S meeting and tripping over the wet floor sign.

The best though (you really had to be there) was the whole family at the table eating Christmas dinner. It was quite late in the afternoon so the lights were on. DSis got up to go into the living room and when she came back in she switched the lights off. We all turned towards her thinking she was bringing in a cake with candles or something and she said "why are you all sitting in the dark?" It turns out she accidentally pressed the light switch as she came back in! It still makes me laugh every time I think of her confusion and our excited anticipation

My Gran started to find the stairs in her house a little tricky so arranged to have a stair lift fitted.

The man arrived to fit it and gave a verbal demo. He then said my Gran should use it whilst he was there so he was sure she knew how to operate it correctly. My Gran got in the chair and set off up the stairs. It stopped, then she made the journey back down. She then got out of the seat and did a comedy "ta daaaaa" complete with jazz hands, at which point the elastic in her skirt gave in and slid down to her ankles.

We couldn't speak for laughing. Either the stairlift man missed it or he had no comedy in his body but he was totally straight faced.

I have a MASSIVELY convoluted yarn that never fails to set me off. It's extremely farce worthy complete with mistaken identities, awkward silences and a finale of realisation that had me convulsed with uncontrollable laughter slap bang in the middle of a restaurant.

It's the most I have laughed ever

I absolutely love these tales, it's a grand change from the 'make me feel sad/vexed/infuriated' that I sometimes read on here.
I get very caught up in all of your posts and replies and I feel your pain greatly when something bad happens to one of you or you have a story of unfairness.
Give me more funny moments PLEASE!!!

Shakey, you know we need to know the story!!!
And another from me, but a hadd to be there moment. I had just gotten together with my now DH (few months in) and my then four - ish year old son scrambled into the kitchen on a pair of roller skates. He didn't stand a chance. He did a typical slapstick falling over kind of movement. He was literally skidding backwards and forwards for about two minutes and not once did he go on his ass. Me and (then) bf were screaming with laughter, totally cemented the relationship and I knew he was the guy for me.

I moved to London but had a course in the city I had been living in. Good opportunity to catch up with my old flatmate who was lovely though rather proper and I knew from living with her had a jealous streak where boyfriends concerned.

. Went to her flat had nice time then her new boyfriend offered to drop me at the station as he was going anyway. As he dropped me off for some reason I leaned over to give him a social goodbye kiss on the cheek, but he wasn't expecting that and turned his head so I kissed him on the mouth. Utterly mortifying but I laughed all the way home. She never spoke to me again! Was a total accident, very happily engaged at the time and don't make a habit of leaping on friends boyfriends

I can think of two:

1. At uni back in the 90s, someone stole the wheelie bin from our shared house. We got the phone book out and looked for the right council number to call. I called the number and gave this huge spiel to the lady who answered the phone, who then said "I'd love to help you dear but this is the library". We all laughed so much it was impossible to call anywhere else!

1. Went on a family holiday to a cabin in Wales with DH's family before we got married. His dad got his slippers wet somehow so put them under the radiator to dry. DH and his two brothers spent the next 4 days pouring water into them so they never actually dried. Every time his dad checked them he would say "I can't believe they aren't dry yet" and we would all fall about laughing. It still makes us laugh now, 17 years later.

When I was almost 16 my boyfriend and I had decided we were ready to 'do the deed' and came up with a plan - I was to bunk off school sick for the day, and he would cycle the 10 miles to my house and come in while my mum was at her 4 hours of lunch and afternoon calls as a career. It all goes to plan - mum leaves, a few moments later he comes in the backdoor, having watched her from a ditch near the house. He climbs in bed and we fumble with the condom etc - and ten seconds later it is all over. However we don't get a chance to even acknowledge the underwhelming loss of our virginity, because suddenly we hear the front door opening! I shove him down the back of my bed and grab my nightie. Under my bed was always a filthy hoarder hole so no idea how he even fit, but I'm sure it was horribly uncomfortable. Minutes later my mum comes to my room, two cups of tea in hand, sits herself down in my bed and tells me her work got cancelled. Then she launches in to a long spiel for about twenty minutes about how she wishes I would break up with my boyfriend, he's a lovely lad, but he's so ugly and I could do so much better and god, all those spots, and his teeth... on and on while I'm crimson k owing the poor guy is naked and under my bed listening to every word.

She finally left the house a few hours later to do a different call, and my poor boyfriend crawled out from under the bed. He told me he had fallen asleep pretty much instantly, but I always wondered how much he heard...

Flyingspaghettimonster - I reckon she knew

A lady I knew was a very strict headmistress at a private all girls school attended by my sister . She was always going on about modesty and telling the girls off being immodest / showing too much skin.

Turns out one day I was at the gym in the sauna. Had a bathing suit on . Said lady - the head mistress walks in BUTT naked and sits next to me. I said oh it's Mrs so and so isn't it . You do know my sister is at your school ( she was one of those always getting told off ) . Fancy seeing you here

When I was first going out with my current DP, we had a lovely night in and an early night . Well, as I slept, I had the toilet dream where I was going for a wee and yes, I pissed in his bed! I was mortified. I woke him up and told him, thankfully he burst out laughing. As did I. I knew at that point he was the one. 15 years later he still brings it up and it still cracks us up!