Do you remember when you laughed so hard your stomach muscles hurt?! [View all]

Ty, Oldbaldy...your post header totally brought up this memory.

So while my dad was an only child, my mom had 1 sister, 2 older brothers, and the 1 youngest brother. I loved them all, and their wives & a husband in various degrees. Extended family get together with them, and our cousins were usually a lot of fun.

The 2nd oldest brother sometimes, though, was a kind of a stuffed shirt a fair amount of times. Later in life: in his ?mid-fifties he'd gone to Mt Athos in Greece (Orthodox Greek Monastery). He came back, and had loosened up. Since he lived to his mid-90's we got to enjoy his changed personalty.

We also just went over as just us (my parents, me, and my sister), and which ever relative family.

So this was a long time ago in my ?early teens. This uncle had a good stereo (my cousin introduced me to The Who),
along with a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape machine. Fun! This uncle had a good singing voice, and probably sang Greek Orthodox hyms in Church.

One time he sang into the tape recorder. The music system was in the closed in porch. We, cousins, and my sister were in the living room right next to it.

He played it back. But...
For some reason something went wrong. Maybe a loosened tape?

Instead of a regular replay - his voice came out all wobbly. Consider how that sounded in comparison to his stuffed shirtness.

Well, I thought this was hilarious! My reaction came within several seconds, and I couldn't stop! I d k if I was already sitting on the carpet as we often did, or was on a chair, and gently fell off as I laughed away.

Can't remember if he came over to find out "what was wrong", which might have made me laugh even harder. Of course, I couldn't tell him *why* I was laughing so much! I kept going even though it hurt.

Well, I finally calmed down. Wow, did my muscles ached!


So did this ever happen to you?
Hope you didn't get in trouble if you were laughing at someone for a good reason.
Or it just could have been some very funny experience!