Funny Response #2:
Laughing
hysterically. When one turns bright red in the face and continues to laugh for
no reason. Just Because. Well, technically there usually is some sort of
reason. Generally, though, it’s a pretty small reason. Not the type of scenario
that you imagine when you think of as inducing a lot of laughter. As I believe
I had mentioned previously, I believe these moments are usually not the result
of something just being THAT funny. Let’s be honest, most things are not
particularly funny for just being HA-HA funny. Situations are humorous by the
comfort and the feeling of warmth around you. Similar to the last situation of
“A hysterical, bursting out laughing, type of moment,” this occurred when I was
surrounded by my closest friends in high school. Junior year. On the way to the
homecoming dance. After girls to the typical process of spending about 4 hours
doing each other’s hair, and makeup and making so-so-important decisions such
as “which clutch matches better”, while the guys all the while pace back and
forth for about 3 hours after they changed their clothes and called it good, my
friends and I were finally ready for photos. For this story, it is necessary
for me to tell you that I went to a small private school with a graduating
class of 27. The type of school where you encounter everyone in at least one
class, and many students stay at the school from elementary school through high
school. So, its easy to say that we had all become pretty good friends
throughout the years, the type of friendship that comes from understanding
someone at every stage along their lives. The awkward braces stage, the “boys
have coodies” stage, the 8th-grade “I’m all that” phase, and the
freshmen “bottom of the pit” phase. Well, we know reached it as upperclassman.
Junior Year. Not to the sadness of senior year, but past the in-between
sophomore stage. Well, I’m getting a little off topic remembering the good old
days, so back to the story. As I said, my friends and I had finally finished
getting ready and we were all ready to take pictures in my friend Giselle’s
living rom. We always got ready for dances in her home, being that her house is
rather insanely large and has artworks hung everywhere. After the individual
date photos, and whole group photos, the girls (including myself) insisted on
an “all-girls” photo, something every teenage girl would understand. Well this
part of the story I’m not entirely clear on. I’m not sure what was said, or who
said it. Knowing my friends, some sarcastic comment was probably made to
someone and someone laughed in response. I’m clearly not very good at telling
stories. Well anyways, somehow or another, in response to laughing my friend
Whitney managed to slightly trip. Being that she was standing in the middle,
she managed to pull the rest of us down with her. So in a chaotic turn of
event, we all managed to fall down in one big pile in our 5-inch tall heels.
After that we all just continued laughing, And that, my friends, was a true of
moment of hysteria. Is falling down necessarily that funny? Of course not. Did
we probable end up showing a little something we didn’t plan to in the process?
Most likely. But in the end, in the comfort of your friends, when you all do it
together and everyone has the same memory, its hilarious. So there we were, seven
girls in blue and black dresses (Not quite sure how that worked out) laughing
our heads off. And the best part? It was all captured in a lovely photo
(Lucking before anyone landed in an unflattering pose)

Allison, I totally agree with your comment that situations are funny due to the people you are with, not necessarily due to the event that occurs. The fact that you graduated with 27 people astonishes me because I graduated with a class of 1000. I can completely empathize with the process of getting ready for a big dance, and there is almost always a humorous occurrence in these situations. I LOVE the picture, because it captures the moments so perfectly. So many times it is hard to describe something funny that just happened, but this visual representation describes it perfectly! I'm sure the dance turned out to be a complete success!
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