I must confess this!

I laugh at falling people! I know I know, it's really not nice! But I can't help! I laugh so hard that tears heplessly  flush out of my eyes! I don't even try to hide it anymore. I accept my defect and move on laughing! I even laugh at my own falls! I think people slipping, falling..etc are hillarious!

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I'm with you…  I used to feel terrible standing over some embarrassed friend or stranger obviously laughing and trying to choke out, “are you alright” at the same time.  I can't help it though.  People tripping are funny - world askew, upside down, no grace or control, here comes the ground - wham!

I also do pratt falls to make others laugh – especially if I'm carrying something.  I'm pretty good at a fake trip after years of practice.  Tho once and awhile I've actually tripped myself and again I laugh.

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Don't beat yourself up about it. It helps them to laugh at themselves. I trip on stuff all the time and I don't stick my lower lip out if someone laughs at my expense. That's what makes Buster Keaten and the 3stooges so great!

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Okay….here I go…I have this CRAZY neighbor who thinks that no one in the entire world can take care of their cats the way that she does so she does really obnoxious things, like glares at you when you let your cat out of the house, walks your cat back to your house and explains that they could be eaten by raccoons and leaves random bags of cat nip on your door step addressed to the cat. 
Anyway, she left some flea medicine at my door step implying that my cat had fleas….I grabbed the medicine and walked over to her front door and threw it at her house!   Nice and mature right???  Such a high point in my adult life!! :) 

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LMAO!

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I do laugh at people who fall, stumble or run into things, too. I know it's bad. But I can't help it. I inherited this little meanness from my grand ma who would break down in tears of laughter if she someone fell down.

One of the funniest things I ever saw happened at the Pink Pop concert in the Netherlands many years ago. I was there with my then-boyfriend and it had beed raining terribly the night before turning the whole festival ground into a giant mud hole. The place in front of the stage was for some reason surrounded (widely) by a (small) ditch that was crossed by bridges at a few points only. So many people took the short cut by climbing up and down the ditch to get to the other side of the festival and camping area. And I saw these two girls that tried to cross this way. One had already crossed successfully and reached her hand out to the one that was starting up the ditch that had become all slippery and muddy. When she was almost up it looked like she had made it and her friend turned around to walk away. In that very same second she trod on the same spot shortly and then crashed into the mud. I'm sorry to say - it was hilarious!!!