Have you ever been unable to stop laughing in public?

I’ve never had it happen, but this is one of my favorites.

Yes, and I enjoyed every moment of it.

It’s quite hard to make me laugh hard. But if you do, nothing can stop me roaring out with laughter.
I once had one of my friends do something immensley funny while out together, and I couldn’t stop laughing loudly. To be honest, I was too busy laughing to take any notice if people were staring or not. And no, I didn’t care if people were.

All the time. I don’t generally try to stop. Why would I want to stop laughing??? Were there people there? Yes. Did they stare? Maybe. Did you care? No.

It’s happened many times. Most of the times, the people do actually stare like I am an alien or something (I don’t laugh like a normal person does. It makes me laugh even more haha) but I don’t care anyway. Sometimes I laugh so hard I can’t even walk, and if I fall down it makes the whole thing funnier for my friends (also laughing)

Hmm..well if laughing at your own party counts as ‘public’, as in lots of unknown party guests, friends of friends, friends of the bands, then the most recent would have been two summers ago. A friend and I standing on my front hill in the yard laughing uproariously watching a guy trying his best to pick up on another friend of ours. It was hilarious, you know, one of those types that just loves everything the other person says, OMG…can you spell phoney schmoozer? lol

He had her trapped by my garage with an arm up against the wall in full on schmooze mode.

We damn near wet our pants, and, to make it even funnier our friend was casting “please rescue me” looks our way that just made us laugh even harder.

That same summer my daughter and I took off for a week in the Redwoods and we had a laughing breakdown one night, traveling for MILES up the tiny little Hwy. 1 short cut into Ft. Bragg at sunset one night. We both had to pee, there was nowhere to pull over and to top it all off the obscure local radio programs we were tuning into lent a surreal flavor to the whole thing. “and now, Bobo Remus will show us how to make organic Baklava” with the gayest voiced dude to ever pick up a rolling pin. lol

We damn near wet ourselves and I could hardly keep the car on the road. :-D

Yeah, the policeman wasn’t at all impressed.

The time that comes to mind most readily was in class one day. The teacher was a huge hardass so I was scared and trying so hard to hide my giggles but I just couldn’t. stop.

It’s idiotic too what I was laughing about. I was sitting next to my friend and we were doing this “cause and effect” assignment where we had to write C or E next to different statements and my friend said “C-E, E-C” in a really funny voice and it just broke my brain. I don’t even know.

The most significant memory I have of this happening was when I was probably 13 or 14 years old. I was taking a walk with my sister when a group of girls that we went to school with rode up to us on their bicycles. They surrounded us, dropped their kickstands, and put their tough-girl faces on. Then they proceeded to threaten to “kick our asses.”

Even at 14 the absurdity of the situation was so hilarious to me that I busted out laughing in such a way that we still talk about it 15 years later. It was epic, loud, hysterical laughter. Good times, good times. :)

Coincidentally, it ended with us walking away unscathed… still giggling.

Yes! And it felt darn good. I did not care if there were people there or not or even if they stared. All I know is I was having a good laugh and could not stop. Sorry if that did not rhyme.:\

Yes. It happens all the time. The worst is uncontrollable church giggles. My mom used to get so mad at my dad and I, we would just look at each other and crack up for no reason.

I showed my mom a YouTube video the other day and she didn’t think it was very funny, then the next day while she was getting her hair cut she said she thought about it and had to literally pinch her lips shut to keep from laughing out loud.

@redfeather when I was a kid I used to get in trouble so much for laughing in church that my grandfather would keep Hall’s mentho-lyptus cough drops in his pocket to shut me up. To this day they are the only cough drops I will eat. :)

@ANef_is_Enuf my mom would just stare at my dad and I and then he would go out in the lobby and I’d wait a couple minutes then go after him and he and I would go laugh in the parking lot then come back in haha

It has happened to me on a few occasions. One time I remember was when was I was at college and learning shorthand. The teacher was reading out a passage and it had a sentence about budgies or something in it and every time she got to that bit I started laughing and couldn’t stop. She had to stop each time and when I settled, she started reading again. We used to have to keep writing down the same passage so she had to read it over and over again and every time she got to that sentence, I would start laughing again. She threw me out of the class in the end and said I had to stand in the corridor. Oh dear… :D Just made me laugh even more!

Yes! When I start laughing, it can take fifteen minutes to make me stop laughing, even if it wasn’t very funny. It gets even worse if someone else is laughing too, because laughing is contagious for me.

@Mariah One of the worst laughing fits I’ve ever had was in school.

I was in economics, when I answered a question that he asked me correctly. However, it ended with me saying, “That’s why you would buy milk, then sell it after a few months.” I immediately realized what I had said, so I pointed how that would be a bad idea because by then your milk would have gone sour, and the teacher just smiled at me. I exploded.
I couldn’t stop laughing for five minutes. Then, when I finally calmed down, he went to speak again. He glanced at me and I started laughing again. He tried to continue the lesson, but my laughter interrupting him was making me laugh even more. Other people laughed at him being unable to continue, so that made it worse. The teacher walked away and sat down, giving me a look that was making my sides hurt horribly with laughter. At that point, I was laughing so hard and for so long, the laugh was sounding kind of evil. A friend who sat next to me comically dragged his desk away from mine, and now I just laughing so hard I thought I was going to start bleeding. The teacher had now started pacing back and forth, trying not to laugh, which made everyone in the class laugh more, which made me think I was about to die of laughter. Seriously. The class ended without anymore progress in the lesson.

By the next day, almost the whole school had heard about the incident, and everyone couldn’t help chuckling/laughing at the sight of me. And I couldn’t have been happier.

Haha I have a story. A friend and I went to eat at Burger King. They were having some special deal for some event, I forget. But the hamburgers were wrapped in gold coloured wrapping. It was all fancy and shit. So we’re eating, and discussing the ridiculously fancy burger wrappers. My friend crumples up her wrapper and goes, I wonder how much I could get for this at a pawn shop.

I thought that was so fucking hilarious that I started laughing like a maniac…I couldn’t stop. I tried…tried to stifle my laughter, because people were looking…but by trying to force it, I ended up laughing even harder and…blew a bunch of snot all over my mouth and chest. I still couldn’t stop laughing.

Later, my friend said she herself was doing her best not to laugh at me when that last part went on, and said I was red like a tomato from trying to hold in my laughter before I horked all over myself lol. I noticed her too, she had a big smile on her face, and I think she was trying not to spit her mouthful on me.

A similar thing happened to me before that, when I was dining in a fancy Italian restaurant and the dude next to our table said that he liked al dante noodles a lot.

I cared, but apparently not enough. ^^

People stared a bit but most people that walked past us just smiled. The ones stopping to see what happened after a few seconds figured out what happened and they started laughing too.

For certain values of ‘public.’ We were joking about how one of the guys – who wears his hairs cropped close to the scalp – must all the same wear a hair net. One of us made a joke about how he probably got a discount at the barber.
It wasn’t really all that funny, in retrospect, but I broke out laughing anyway.