[kimmydawn]

Have y'all ever been so incredibly stressed that it scrambled your brains or you just simply go blank or something like that?

Sometimes it's not funny and increases the stress/anxiety, even leading to panic. However, sometimes it can be hilarious.

Well, here's a good story to share along those lines:

Yesterday was my oldest grandson's first birthday. My young daughter (only 20) was nervous to host the party and make sure everything was perfect. I couldn't do anything...dr's orders due to surgery.

Anyhow, she was down to decorating the highchair after racking her brain to do the other decorations (I finally helped her a bit there). She tied a helium balloon to the back of his chair and asked what she should do with the other, regular balloons. I just said that they'd look good on the highchair...offhandedly. My idea was that she could put them around the streamer that was covering the front of the tray.

Well, apparently she put string on it and tied it to the back of his highchair like she did the helium balloon. I then look at her because she's huffing and puffing, and she's trying to get a balloon flying in the air and it was sinking. She looked at me immediately and said, "These are broke! Why aren't they floating???"

I started cracking up, asking her if she was serious. She'd just blown them up herself five minutes earlier. She was frustrated at my laughing and still didn't get it! I explained that they weren't helium.

Her face turned beet red, then of course, still being only 20...blamed ME!!! LOLOLOL. She said, "Well, you told me to put them on the high chair!!!" I said, "I meant around the tray or something, even with pain meds, I know they wouldn't fly!"

hehehe.

Does anyone have a funny "stressed silly" story to share?

KD

[nowheretorun]

great way to start the morning KD! here's one...

when i was about 16 i was in South Dakota working a harvest crew... during some offtime the other drivers and i went on a rattlesnake hunt... (we wanted the rattles and just thought it would be exciting)

one of the guys was a real 'survivor' type... carried his knife on his hip and was always on guard for something or other... (liked him alot)

we walked along the path and suddenly he jumped back, screamed 'Snake!' and we all froze in our tracks cause he was looking only a few feet away.....

he jumped back, drew his knife, and prepared for attack.......

we watched as the weeds shook a little bit and out jumped.... a frog....

it was hilarious or maybe you had to be there... hugs to all

[sabby]

LOL....two cute and funny situations.

I have one from my holiday as a matter of fact.....my friend and I were in tears we were laughing so hard at it.

Now, since I am from the US...driving in the UK is VERY different. Different sides of the road, the car and shifting as well. When I drive there, I have to be very hypervigilant and pay close attention and think about everything I am doing.

So, we are driving in Scotland...through a small village looking for a B&B and someplace to eat. It's been a long day...I'm tired...and getting giddy. My friend doesn't drive so we joked that I had to come all the way from the US to drive her butt around the UK

Anywho....we took a side street to come back to the main road. I had to turn right....remember in the UK, we drive on the left side of the road, not the right. I make the turn while I'm jibberjabbering with my friend and I automatically turned into the right lane instead of the left. I look at the road and what do we see.......a lorry (tractor trailer) smack dab in front of us!!!!!!!!!!!

My eyes widened....I threw my hands up off the wheel....I yelled "ACCCCKKKK"....grabbed the steering wheel and got back into the left hand lane.

Now, by this time my friend is absolutely cracking up laughing.....I guess I made quite the face when I ACCCKKKED.... We just couldn't stop laughing and we got to the point where we started snorting while we laughed and crying too. I almost had to find a place to pull over to get through the laugh attack so I could continue driving.

This was a real clear point to me.....when driving in the UK, I must not be tired....cuz oh boy...the consequences of that are not good


sabby

[kimmydawn]

hehe.



thank you for sharing that NW.

KD

[kimmydawn]

thanks for sharing!!!

KD

[mak62184]

I have one. It's a story from when I used to work at a Boy Scout Camp. But, thanks to this incident, I never ever am going to use the bathroom in the middle of the night without a flashlight again.

So, we had all these crazy stories about ghosts being around. I sort of believe in them, so I believed most stories that people told about hearing or seeing them around camp. Well, one night I had to go to the bathroom really really bad in the middle of the night and could not find my flashlight. So, smart me put on my shoes and insisted that I would be fine walking to the latrine in the same field as the building I was living in, without a flashlight. It wasn't so bad until I got closer to the latrine and noticed the door was open. I really thought there was something in there and it was going to get me, but I went in anyway. Then I scared myself into believing the ghosts were watching me and were going to get me, along with animals. So I ran back to my living quarters as fast as I could and I think I may have locked the doors. I also thought I was hearing the ghosts trying to come in the building. However, it was just the air conditioner making noises. I obviously was fine, and nothing got me. But I really did think I was a goner or nobody would find me until 6am, when swim front staff had to be up.

[EJ711]

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kimmydawn said:
Have y'all ever been so incredibly stressed that it scrambled your brains or you just simply go blank or something like that?

All the time.

My solution is to lie down, until the stress leaves me, and I can re-establish my priorities.

So glad to see you back online.

EJ

Sometimes it's not funny and increases the stress/anxiety, even leading to panic. However, sometimes it can be hilarious.

Well, here's a good story to share along those lines:

Yesterday was my oldest grandson's first birthday. My young daughter (only 20) was nervous to host the party and make sure everything was perfect. I couldn't do anything...dr's orders due to surgery.

Anyhow, she was down to decorating the highchair after racking her brain to do the other decorations (I finally helped her a bit there). She tied a helium balloon to the back of his chair and asked what she should do with the other, regular balloons. I just said that they'd look good on the highchair...offhandedly. My idea was that she could put them around the streamer that was covering the front of the tray.

Well, apparently she put string on it and tied it to the back of his highchair like she did the helium balloon. I then look at her because she's huffing and puffing, and she's trying to get a balloon flying in the air and it was sinking. She looked at me immediately and said, "These are broke! Why aren't they floating???"

I started cracking up, asking her if she was serious. She'd just blown them up herself five minutes earlier. She was frustrated at my laughing and still didn't get it! I explained that they weren't helium.

Her face turned beet red, then of course, still being only 20...blamed ME!!! LOLOLOL. She said, "Well, you told me to put them on the high chair!!!" I said, "I meant around the tray or something, even with pain meds, I know they wouldn't fly!"

hehehe.

Does anyone have a funny "stressed silly" story to share?

KD

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[mak62184]

I have a new one now. It happened at work today.

We have some really awful and scummy people who live above the restaurant I work in. I mean, these people do drugs, drink, and really are not seeking help to get out of the situation. My dad told me it's pretty much a crack house up there. I do not associate with any of these people at all, just to make it clear that I just know they live up there and see some occasionally.

So, sometime between the restaurant closing last night, and me coming in to work this morning, some idiot up there not only pulled the fire alarm to go off, but they physically pulled the whole box off the wall, breaking the alarm system. The main box is downstairs in the restaurant. So, we had the wonderful sound of this alarm box going off, and not being able to do anything about it at all. It took 2 1/2 hours for the alarm system company to come over and fix it. Ridiculous. In the mean time, my boss tried to get it to go off, but instead had the entire system for the whole building go off for a second. Then the police and fire department came for a second time. I'll admit, although I really did worry that something was really wrong when I went in this morning, and the awful noise that is still stuck in my head, it was sort of an amusing situation. I just can't believe someone would be so stupid.

[kimmydawn]

Oh, gee!

Thank you for sharing that. See that's something I would do...try to fix it and have it all going haywire.

Thanks again and I'm glad everyone's alright.

KD