Funny terrible things
Really terrible things that make you laugh.

We've all been there: something unbelievably awful has happened and while it was really tragic at the time, afterwards you can't help but laugh. Moments at funerals, bad accidents, incredibly offensive statements: all bad at the time, but afterwards you find yourself laughing a fair bit.

Example: At age nine you may have been unable to walk for a month after having a rather bad accident, which may have happened because you went sledging down a hill as it was the first time it'd ever snowed this much in your life.

This hill may have been at the sea side (as this is where you live) and rather close to some cliffs. The sensibility level of this may not have dawned on you at the time.

When it comes your turn to have a go on the sledge, you might not be able to steer as well as your mates, or turn it into the bracken and jump off like they have, instead flipping the sledge and landing on the coastal path below. Five feet from spiky cliffs and sea related potential death.

Whilst lying there on your back, with a heavy sledge on top of you and your mates standing at the top of the slope aghast, a dog, off the leash of its owners who are ambling a fair way behind it, might run up and pee on you.

They might hurry over afterwards and ask you: "Are you alright?"
(greenycrimson I stole the from pyschotherapist, Sat 26 May 2007, 21:49, Reply)