It’s the weekend before Christmas…a tense time for some as they try to complete their shopping and/or get ready to spend time with family. A perfect time for a little levity.

So, let’s talk about laughter. More specifically, at what inappropriate place have you ever dissolved into laughter?

I’ll go first. Several years ago, I was visiting my daughter in Chicago and we went to a church near her home in Lincoln Park. It was a Lutheran church and we didn’t realize it was confirmation Sunday. So family and friends of the confirmads were out in full force.

Bit of back story–my daughter’s phone had died that weekend. It wouldn’t even turn on. Still, she’d tossed it into her purse when we’d left her apartment that morning.

The minister was giving his sermon (which was being taped) when Wendy’s phone started playing the Flight of the Bumblebees. Her face turned red and she jerked it from her purse and hit the power button. IT WOULDN’T TURN OFF!!! It was as if the phone was possessed.

I started laughing. I couldn’t help it. I was so embarrassed. Everyone was staring and Wendy was frantically trying to get the darn thing to SHUT OFF and that tune echoed in the church. It was funny and pathetic at the same time.

Finally she pulled off the back cover and jerked out the battery. And then, blessed…silence. We still laugh about that time now.

How about you? Ever had an experience where you started laughing when you shouldn’t have??

C’mon, there has to be at least one time….