Here’s the deal. It’s Friday.
I have things to grout, things to install, sawdust to inhale… but I can guarantee that at the time you’re reading this I’m sitting in front of my computer at my Actual Real Job, bleeding from the eyes. It’s been a long week.
Yesterday I was googling material for some training I’m creating for a national brand of, um, sparkly things… and what I thought I typed into the search box was “[unnamed brand] happy ducks”, but then when I looked in the search box of my browser window three hours later, I realized that I had mistakenly googled “[unnamed brand] happy dicks.”
Yeah.
The fact that it took me three hours to figure that out is the best way I can explain the kind of week I’ve had. At that point I just put my forehead on my desk and laughed until it sounded like I was having a seizure.
And I thought in honor of that happy moment I’d share a few other things that have made me laugh until I cried recently.
From my favorite new blog that has nothing to do with building houses (thanks Heather, for recommending it) 2Birds,1Blog – Sorr About The Bag.
From this very site, wherein I do something really stupid with a piece of drywall – The part that makes me laugh is not the video of my own idiocy, it’s the IM commentary from my co-worker Brian as he watched it.
Brian D: “ehh”
Brian D: “ehjhh”
Brian D: huh huh
Brian D: SMACK
That was not only a shout out to two of the funniest things I’ve read all year, but also to two of my co-workers. So, see, the Actual Real Job isn’t all bleeding eyes. Sometimes it’s bleeding eyes and laughter.
Other things I’ve laughed at recently:
- Is Herman Munster your real estate agent?
- I know, everyone knows about this, but still – Sh*t My Dad Says
I’m not sure you can call that roughing it, son… Well, for one, there was a fucking minivan parked forty feet from your sleeping bags.
He’s not even my dad, but he still explained why I should shut up already about living in a garage.
Oh my god, do you just want me to stop blathering about things that make me laugh and give you something for free, because that’s why you showed up to this corner of the internet today?
Okay.
The guys from RE:Solve offered to give away one of these handy 456-in-1 tools.
Okay, it’s like 17 tools in in one. Stop being picky. This is the thing that’s going to allow you take your entire car apart and put it back together when you break down 200 miles from nowhere in the country one day. Not that I live there and would know anything about it.
Leave a comment about one thing that’s made you laugh so hard you cried to enter.
C’mon… I need the laughs.
Giveaway ends a week from today! And…. Go.
PDF 
Possibly Related Posts
Comments
Holyoke Home
I believe the internet was invented solely so that this could be created: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/03/pie-verus-cake-scientific-approach.html
Enjoy the laugh.
Sara @ Russet Street Reno
I will take that multi tool, maybe it will build me some shelves. The laugh til I cry moment that comes to mind is when me, Shaun and my parents went to House on the Rock in WI, and visited the ‘Infinity Room’.
It extends out 218 feet from the main building, and 150 feet above the ground. It has no supporting beams underneath, and sways in the wind. Shaun got about 30 feet out and then dropped to his knees and crawled back out. Me and my parents were DYING of laughter watching this 6 foot man crawl out of the room because he was terrified!! We still laugh til we cry just talking about it now.
http://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_Attraction_TicsAndTours_Reg_Tour1_InfinityRoom.htm
Shane
My moment to laugh until I cry is pretty similar to yours. Though I still wonder if the tears were from the laughing or just the pent-up frustration being released.
I was working on a new web startup, switching out the back end to a different structure. To configure it, there are tons of XML files. I spent a week working on figuring out why it was crashing. I had misspelled XML “XNL” on the first line. For the whole week I was looking into all these obscure errors people had reported thinking I might have found a bug in the underlying system. I’m pretty sure I consumed a six pack that night.
Not likely to make anyone else laugh, but it is what it is.
Amber
This probably makes my family laugh but…
I was sitting the couch one night, having just come home from a long day at work in a suit and knee high panty hose. Out of the corner of my eye, I see my dog has something dangling from him mouth. It was my knee high, but only one of them. So I start chasing the dog around the house, shouting “Mom, Bear’s got my ho! He’s got my ho! Help me!” We STILL laugh when it gets brought up.
kitliz
Because obviously “Ho” is the singular form of “Hose”. Yeah, I’m totally with you. lol.
Chelsea@ThisFreshFossil
This moment came when we were busy installing laminate flooring throughout the living room, dining area and kitchen.
When we ripped the carpet up out of the dining area/kitchen, we realized it was glued down onto the subflooring, with layers and layers of sticky goo. We tried placing the laminate wood over the glue, but when you stepped on it there was a horrible “sticky” noise. We were stumped. We tried placing paper over it, thought of adhesive removers, talked to every flooring employee at every home improvement store we could find, researched and brainstormed for HOURS. Nothing they suggested seemed to work in the short timeframe we were working in (my parents were only staying a week).
We were sitting around, discouraged and losing hope as our latest “solution” had failed, when suddenly my husband exclaimed, “baking soda.” “What?” I asked. He repeated, “baking soda.” My parents and I stared at him in confusion and then each other. We thought the stress must’ve been too much and he’d fallen off his rocker. He jumped up and ran down to the laundry room to grab a box of baking soda we had stored down there. He returned with a box of the stuff and promptly poured a thin layer of it over the stick, and placed a piece of wood laminate overtop of it. Then he stepped on the piece of flooring. It was dead quiet for a moment before we started celebrating and laughing so hard we were crying.
And yes, we totally still have baking soda under our floor in our kitchen. And everytime we think about that (and what the next people who rip out the laminate will think), we start laughing.
~Chelsea
Julie
My hubby was in a major truck accident this past week. He was very fortunate in only ending up with 5 stitches on his face, and we are all grateful he is alive. The accident was the fault of his team driver…who fell asleep at the wheel…and now Hubs is home for a bit, waiting for stitches to be removed, and also for a new truck and team driving partner. He was telling me that one thing he does when he looks in a mirror and starts to get angry about the scar that will be on his face after all of this is he says Kuh-kuh-kuh-Ken. (His driving partner, named Ken, had a stuttering problem…possibly not the most pc thing to do, but whatever). He said that when he says it, it makes him laugh instead of being so pissed. We hadn’t realized the kids had overheard until we were driving to church yesterday and suddenly our three year old piped up with “Kuh-kuh-kuh-Ken” from the back seat. We laughed until we cried. Possibly only funny to us, probably a “you woulda had to a been there” deal, but there ya go…that’s what we’ve laughed at recently.
Bente Amandussen
Hi – love your blog!
What is funny depends so much on the situation I suppose, but this thing made me laugh until I cried the first time I saw it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSgRkBWNlBo
Enjoy!