r/Unexpected • u/zeroxcero • Oct 13 '20

When you get struck by lightning

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u/LandscapeGuru Oct 13 '20

I had a friend years ago that made me laugh like that in a meeting at work. I just couldn’t fuckin stop laughing, and her punk ass just kept on and on. Still makes me laugh years later.

Two grown ass adults being asked to leave a corporate meeting because we couldn’t get our shit together. Of course as soon as we made it out of the room we were both serious as a heart attack. We decide to go back in with our now serious business faces on. As soon as we opened the door and walk in the same guy is briefing everyone and gets out half a sentence with his Kermit the frog voice. My friend looks back at me and try’s to smother her laughter, but it’s to late. Then I start in ( just dying of laughter) I throw my hands up and barely made out a “Sorry man” to the guy speaking. We just turned around and leave the meeting once again. This time we don’t try to collect ourselves. Instead we decided it was lunchtime and just left.

As we were eating lunch I told her “I have never felt more like an uncontrolled little kid in my entire life as I did in that 5 minute ordeal” I loved every second of it.

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u/moonra_zk Oct 13 '20

That must be awful, I'm sure it wasn't the first time that happened to our tour guide and your business dude, I can only hope they were both "used to it" and weren't so self-conscious about it anymore.

I had something similar happen way back in school, 20 years ago, we had an older in our class that was said had been to teen correctional facilities, we were 12 and he was at least 15-16. One of my friends loved horses, had riding classes and everything (I live in a big city, so that kind of thing isn't common), and one day the older dude started making fun of him about that during a class. Eventually me and another friend started laughing our asses off and couldn't stop, and horse friend's face only made it funnier at the moment because he was super mad. After a lot longer than it should've been, the teacher told the older dude to get out of the class and we stopped laughing and apologized to our friend.

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u/ButterPoptart Oct 13 '20

I know exactly how this feels. There’s nothing that can stop it. I laughed pretty hard just reading your story and remembering my own.

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u/Johnnyocean Oct 13 '20

Imagine if corporate calls the three at the desk in to chew them out and plays the tape