Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to wonder if everyone has irrational 'giggle triggers'?

26 replies

bringincrazyback · 03/07/2018 21:21

Inspired by a certain thread I just read tonight, but I won't say which one so as not to make a TAAT (though I'm sure people will work it out anyway, lol) It got me wondering about something else, though.

I've always wondered if I am odd/weird in having a few 'irrational giggle triggers', so to speak. I've always assumed it's just me, but even at the grand old age of 50 I still cannot hear anyone burping without getting the giggles big style. It perplexes me... I was well brought up, my family isn't coarse or crude at all and I got told off if I burped myself (so did my dad), yet it always just used to completely crack me up. Fair enough as a child - I guess it probably gave the giggles then because it was forbidden - but still to be cracking up over burps as a (normally intelligent, sensible and adult) woman of 50?! embarrassed titter

Another one: I'm in an amateur theatre group and get the helpless giggles for some reason I can't fathom when I fluff lines in rehearsals, I can never get myself back on track which can get embarrassing! It gets worse if anyone takes the mickey out of me for fluffing the line... I think that must have a nervous origin of some kind, although I don't feel consciously nervous in rehearsals (and, thank goodness, it's never happened during a show...) The giggles over burping, on the other hand, I cannot figure out for the life of me...

Is it just me? Grin (I'm fine with replies along the lines of 'Yes, it's just you'/'YABU and weird', in fact I'm half expecting them. Grin )

OP posts:
arranfan · 04/07/2018 20:21

I blame MN for a number of mine.

Pombears (seeing Bear or someone mentions them)
Funerals (so many reasons, so much inappropriate family behaviour)
Burka (lady)
Maui
Sistene Chapel (screaming at MA)
chihuahua (to be fair, it had a Healing Ministry)

I have multiple music triggers - and this means they can crop up randomly in a surprising variety of public venues.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread