A giggle a day keeps the doctor away

I think it's great when funerals feel more like a celebration of a person's life with lots of laughter, rather than being depressingly sombre.

Your anecdote about that photo at your uncle's wake is brilliant. 

That's a wonderful anecdote Debbie, and has helped to put a smile on my face. 

Ha..

Why did the golfer need a new pair of trousers?

Because he got a hole in one!

Those are very funny stories.

Thank you for sharing them

I love stories like this- they're funny, but also a sign of how much everyone loved the person who's died.

At my uncle's wake we had a slideshow of photos. Most of them were photos of him as best man at people's weddings, looking after people's kids, proudly standing with the heavy machinery he operated at work... and then there was a photo of him flashing his bum out of the cab window of his JCB digger he would have found it SO funny that we put that picture in and it got some big laughs on a very sad day.

I think I need to do more giggling. I seem to be surrounded by doctors.

Here’s one I often think about that brings a smile to my face. My brother and I were tasked to get a Christmas tree as our dad was too busy with his construction business. So we took his Landrover and went to chop a tree, or rather my brother did and I stood and watched. Lol. Anyway, he chopped the tree and it fell so he jumped back, screaming like a girl and the tree fell on the roof of the Landrover denting it considerably. I fell over laughing. I laughed so hard it actually hurt my lungs and heart. He was really red in the face and still screaming. One of the most funny Christmas’s I’ve ever had.

Unsurprisingly our Dad didn’t find it as funny as I did.

Another was during a fishing trip (extremely boring IMHO) I was told a fish was finally on the line and I moved so fast to look that I rocked the boat and fell in the water. I expected myself to be really angry but actually I found it hilarious and was in the water just laughing. That one always makes me smile.

And one of my faves that my sister told me about was when a man rudely pushed her aside and she actually fell and it broke her watch. So she followed after him saying excuse me to try and get his attention but he didn’t look back and kept ignoring him so she pulled his ponytail to stop him and as she did it turned out to be part of his wig and it came off in her hand. LOL! This really happened and apparently everyone just burst into laughter. The man snatched it back and ran off. My sisters watch was sadly broken and she never got the chance to tell him about it because she was laughing. But she said it was worth it just for that.

That's a brilliant, heart warming story S 

I did a similar thing when my mum died.

I told the celebrant about mum refusing to be weighed in hospital with both legs on the scale and telling the nurses (each time) that she hadn't put both legs on the scales since the 1970s.

So, the celebrant mentioned the putting only one leg on the scales and said that it had worked really well for him and he had lost lots of weight!

This is True.
Just over Two Weeks ago i had to ring the G.p to cancel a  previviously made appointment.
She asked what the problem was, and i told Her i didn.t feel well.
She said  " Are you backwards or something " ?

Er, thanks... I think. 

Not sure if this you being serious, or you joking.

When i say " Our " i mean Me and all my Mutiple Personalities.
We all wish you the very Best. 

Who is 'Our'? Sorry, but it's not clear what you mean by that. Muchly confused.

You are always on Our mind.......

https://youtu.be/f4bteoFLTA8

Hey, that is the ONE thing about The Titanic Sinking.
Once They realised that there was a hole in one side of the Ship, why didn.t they make a hole on
the other side to let the water out ?

I'm not sure if others will find this amusing, but the memories continue to make me smile...

My dad had been a volunteer with a litter-picking group, and they would often sing the Heigh-Ho song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ("Heigh-Ho Heigh-Ho, it's off to work we go...").

When we were arranging the funeral service for my dad after his death, my mother mentioned this to the celebrant. As we had told the Celebrant about my dad's sense of humour, she came up with a suggestion that we knew my dad would have found hilarious. I feel it's important to mention that we wanted the funeral service to reflect my dad's personality, and leave people feeling uplifted.

So, we are nearing the end of the funeral service, and the Celebrant announces that 99 Red Balloons by Nena will be played. My mother, son, and I knew what was coming, but nobody else did. Heigh-Ho suddenly starts playing, before it is then abruptly stopped, and 99 Red Balloons starts playing.

Yes, we had played a prank. My dad loved a good farce, so would have found it amusing that our family and friends might have been left thinking that his funeral service hadn't gone quite to plan. For the record, we did explain to everyone later that the song blunder had been staged.

Hilarious

Thank you. 

Lol that was funny   thanks for sharing and making this thread. It made me smile.

I don't have any funny tales but when I need to laugh I watch Mr Bean videos which always make me laugh loads. 

https://youtu.be/EsSLPpEd5TE

I hope this makes you smile. 

Wonderful

Thank you.