I laughed so hard I cried, Part 1

If I had to name my favorite thing ever, it's laughing until I cry. God, I love that sensation that something is so damn funny that I can hardly breathe.

This has happened to me three times recently. The other night in bed, Brian and I were watching some newsmagazine or another on how mean girls are to other kids. Apparently the internet is helping mean girls be just that much crueler. To hear Diane Sawyer have to use the term Fruity McGaygay as she read aloud from some blog was just too much. First off, how have I lived so long to have not had that term in my arsenal? How many friends might I have taunted with that gem? Secondly, does this thought ever cross Diane Sawyer's mind: What the HELL am I doing?? Aaah, Fruity McGaygay. Delicious.

Another moment came when we brought Annie over to our neighbor Mrs. M's house so that Brian and I could go see the new birthin' wing of the hospital. Annie brought her Woody doll. But Mrs. M., God bless her, really wanted it to be Buzz Lightyear. But she couldn't spit out Buzz Lightyear. So the Woody doll just kept being called "Bud Bud er Bud Light". At the time I kept my cool and just let her run with it. She doesn't need to know the difference between Woody and Buzz or Buzz's real name, even. But the next day I spoke to her on the phone and she started it again, all this talk of Annie and Bud Light. When I hung up, the tears came. I was shaking as I tried to recount the details to Brian who couldn't understand why it was so funny to me. I dunno.

Finally, last January during our girls' gift exchange, B shared a story. She had recently moved to California and her sister, C came out to help. While B was outside waiting for the moving van, C was chatting up B's landlord inside. When B returned to the apartment, the landlord was filling B in on what he and her sister were talking about. Oddly, though, he said, "...as I was telling your nephew here..." NEPHEW!?!? B's sister is a feminine 40 some year old woman! Nephew!?!? A slip of the tongue obviously but so absurd that it took me a good half hour to get over it.

So, uh, anyone out there? What made you laugh so hard you cried?