Saturday, November 23, 2013

Falling into Hysteria (Funny moment 2/2)

I would like to begin by pointing out that the name is corny. I am aware. But it fits, so I am just going to leave it.


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)



1 comment:

  1. 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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