I've almost tripped people just for a laugh.. I have a problem.

I have a problem.

I laugh. I laugh a lot. I laugh at appropriate times. I laugh at inappropriate times. Yeah, I said it, I laugh at inappropriate times.

And its not just at any inopportune times, its specifically when close friends (if they would even allow me to call them friends after what I do…) get hurt.

One day when I was walking the Lincoln Memorial with two dear friends, and one of them trips on a curb and literally goes parallel with the ground and does not land the fall gracefully. Not only was it not graceful, every surrounding person was in shock and immediately rushed to her aide. As for me, I proceeded to fall to the ground and roll on the ground in a fit of laughter. Not just any laughter, but the “I can’t breathe-snorting all over the place-tears from my eyes” kind of laughter. Do I ask if the friend is okay? No. I am in a fit of laughter, isn’t that enough? Apparently not. The said friend’s knee was hurting for three months after this event. Yeah, I am a great friend.

Another time I was ice-skating with a fun friend of mine. We were experts on the ice, and we had taken a pause, and all I hear is a yelp, I look over and my friend is flattened and completely sprawled out, back-side on the ice. Was my reaction one of concern? No. The laughing fit came over me and I was bawling my eyes out from laughing so hard. What is wrong with me?!

It almost gets to the point where I will go out of my way to potentially trip people to get a laugh. This is bad.

I was going to try and get help, but laughter is the best medicine right?