I need a good laugh these days problem is there's not much to laugh at with one catastrophe after another happening lately. So i looked back for some humorous incidents. I suppose laughing can loosely be called a hobby.
Meditation Day at the religious retreat
Think it was 8th grade when we were all corralled up for a field trip to a religious monastery for what was supposed to be a meditative retreat.
The boys were separated from the girls and sent to different grottos for the event.
After a sermon by one of the priests on prayer, reflection and meditation, he required us to be extremely quiet and meditate for a HALF HOUR? He left the grotto and closed the door. It was indeed quiet for this pious event. It was so quiet you could literally hear a pin drop.
All was going well then out of this still quietness, without warning, there was a very very LOUD echoing flatulence squeak!
The laughing and commotion was so loud, the priest heard it outside and came rushing in. He tried everything to quiet us down, the more he tried the louder the laughter got. At some point he finally realized it was hopeless and started laughing himself not knowing the root cause of it all.
What did he think would happen trying to get a bunch of 8th grade boys to be quiet for a half hour?
Duncan, the break thru wonder dog!
My old buddy Duncan had a habit of running up the back porch stairs. One day he ran up those stairs faster than usual and with his 80 pounds of inertia, he couldn't stop in time.
That old dog broke right through the bottom partition of the screen door. He lay on the kitchen floor with the goofiest look on his face.
Instead of being POd having to fix the door now, i laughed and for a few days after too.
Taking notes
Our group had a new manager. A more than serious guy who never cracked a smile. A manager with new silly out of place rules.
During his first staff meeting he required us all to take detailed notes and would randomly pick one of us to refresh the events of the last staff meeting. Now this was kind of a joke as staff meetings previously amounted to brief project updates then a BS session with soda, beer and pizza at the end.
So the next staff meeting we all complied with our notebooks and pencil in hand. That is except John a Chinese Engineer who was sort of a jokester.
He sat there erect with a very serious look on his face eyes glued to the new manager.
There was some snickering, giggling and when i looked at John, his 'note book' was a tiny 1 inch by 1 inch piece of paper!
We all tried to hold it back but it was becoming increasingly impossible. Couldn't help myself, my laughter dam finally broke and let out with a loud belly laugh and most others followed. There were a few with straight faces who didn't think it was funny which made it all the funnier to the rest of us.
The new manager clueless with a serious look kept asking whats so funny? I repeat whats so funny? He finally felt around his face and looked down at his zipper!
The place was up for grabs now.
The department Director whose office was just down the hall even barged in to see what the commotion was all about. After a few minutes he got a contact laugh. That was the last straw for that new manager never even cracking a smile during the mayhem stormed out of the room.
Finding out later the cause of the ruckus, at the next staff meeting he made a brief statement no longer requiring us to take notes.
Meditation Day at the religious retreat
Think it was 8th grade when we were all corralled up for a field trip to a religious monastery for what was supposed to be a meditative retreat.
The boys were separated from the girls and sent to different grottos for the event.
After a sermon by one of the priests on prayer, reflection and meditation, he required us to be extremely quiet and meditate for a HALF HOUR? He left the grotto and closed the door. It was indeed quiet for this pious event. It was so quiet you could literally hear a pin drop.
All was going well then out of this still quietness, without warning, there was a very very LOUD echoing flatulence squeak!
The laughing and commotion was so loud, the priest heard it outside and came rushing in. He tried everything to quiet us down, the more he tried the louder the laughter got. At some point he finally realized it was hopeless and started laughing himself not knowing the root cause of it all.
What did he think would happen trying to get a bunch of 8th grade boys to be quiet for a half hour?
Duncan, the break thru wonder dog!
My old buddy Duncan had a habit of running up the back porch stairs. One day he ran up those stairs faster than usual and with his 80 pounds of inertia, he couldn't stop in time.
That old dog broke right through the bottom partition of the screen door. He lay on the kitchen floor with the goofiest look on his face.
Instead of being POd having to fix the door now, i laughed and for a few days after too.
Taking notes
Our group had a new manager. A more than serious guy who never cracked a smile. A manager with new silly out of place rules.
During his first staff meeting he required us all to take detailed notes and would randomly pick one of us to refresh the events of the last staff meeting. Now this was kind of a joke as staff meetings previously amounted to brief project updates then a BS session with soda, beer and pizza at the end.
So the next staff meeting we all complied with our notebooks and pencil in hand. That is except John a Chinese Engineer who was sort of a jokester.
He sat there erect with a very serious look on his face eyes glued to the new manager.
There was some snickering, giggling and when i looked at John, his 'note book' was a tiny 1 inch by 1 inch piece of paper!
We all tried to hold it back but it was becoming increasingly impossible. Couldn't help myself, my laughter dam finally broke and let out with a loud belly laugh and most others followed. There were a few with straight faces who didn't think it was funny which made it all the funnier to the rest of us.
The new manager clueless with a serious look kept asking whats so funny? I repeat whats so funny? He finally felt around his face and looked down at his zipper!
The place was up for grabs now.
The department Director whose office was just down the hall even barged in to see what the commotion was all about. After a few minutes he got a contact laugh. That was the last straw for that new manager never even cracking a smile during the mayhem stormed out of the room.
Finding out later the cause of the ruckus, at the next staff meeting he made a brief statement no longer requiring us to take notes.