Name: What If You Laughed for 24 Hours Straight
Uploaded: 2020-03-06T20:51:42.000Z
Duration: 8 min 8 s
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Past simple

Hey, you know, a weird thing happened to me last night.

Past continuous

I was watching some movie where the main character was laughing a lot, and I caught myself thinking:

what if you laughed, like, for a full day, non-stop?

The thought of it was so funny for some reason that I actually started laughing, and… couldn’t

You know it — when you laugh, you basically ARE having fun, endorphins filling your bloodstream

Although it might’ve looked weird, since I was home alone and laughing hard at nothing,

I was feeling good, and the whole affair didn’t even seem a nuisance.

After about 5 minutes I started realizing I wasn’t going to stop, after all.

It was probably the longest bout of laughter in my entire life.

Feel free to share in the comments — you’ll never beat my record anyway.

So, like I said, 5 minutes in, and I’m still chuckling like crazy.

That’s where I began really worrying if everything was alright with me.

It was 10.45 pm, I was going to go to bed in another 15 minutes, but my educated guess

(through all the shaking from laughter, right) was that I wasn’t going to sleep tonight.

Anyway, I just lay down, turned off the TV and all the lights, and stared into the ceiling,

More time passed, and I started feeling cramps in my belly.

You know that feeling when your stomach muscles ache after you’ve laughed for a while?

Now imagine you’ve been doing that for close to an hour!

Laughter begins in the diaphragm, so my belly muscles felt as if I was doing crunches.

I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I got up and started doing some chores — as good

I washed all the dishes left over from dinner, still laughing like mad.

I wanted to pet my cat, but it ran away from me in fear — no wonder, given that look

Finally, I sat down with my laptop and tried checking the email, but realized at once that

putting the computer on my lap while laughing wasn’t the best of ideas.

Loudly thinking lots of bad stuff through bouts of laughter, I put the laptop on the

Surprisingly, it went without much trouble, except occasional belly cramps and fits of

You know that feeling, when you’re laughing so hard you can’t do anything else because

That’s the thing: I simply felt wobbly.

But it passed, and I returned back to work.

I didn’t want to sleep, by the way, because all that laughing somehow boosted my system

I spent the rest of the night in front of my computer, and when time finally came to

get ready for work, I realized, at last, that I simply couldn’t go to the office like

But I had no other choice, since if I’d tried to call my boss, all I could’ve done

On the other hand, how could I appear at work like this?!

I decided to think about it while getting ready, not to lose time.

I went to the bathroom and faced another problem: I had to brush my teeth, I usually do it before

I tried this way and that, but all I got was my bathroom mirror splattered with toothpaste.

Having washed it all off, I went to cook breakfast, still thinking about how to show up in the

It was only when I poured coffee into the mug that I realized I couldn’t actually

drink it, or eat my eggs and bacon, for that matter.

You know, you can’t but wonder how surrealistic it should look when a guy’s laughing his

pants off and trying to pour coffee into his mouth at the same time.

Of course I ended up spilling it all over myself and being scalded in more than one

Well, at least I managed to chuckle with my mouth partly closed while chewing on the eggs.

I’d already kinda got used to my condition by that time, so I went to change my clothes

and almost left the apartment when I got a message that saved me from embarrassing myself

It was my sister— she got into some kind of trouble with her car stuck in the middle

I grabbed this opportunity to write to my boss at once that I was having an emergency,

Now, driving through a busy city while laughing like a lunatic must be a scary sight.

Once, I stopped before a red light, and someone stopped right beside me.

I didn’t really pay attention until the other driver knocked on my window to ask me

When I turned to him and rolled down the window, he looked at me for a moment and hit the gas

so hard that his car’s wheels left skid marks on the road.

Anyway, I managed to get to my sister in about two hours — she was far outside the city

She stood at the curb, waving at me, and while I pulled over, I was thinking fast how would

Nothing came to mind, and then no time was left either — she approached my car.

I went out (chuckling and trying not to laugh really hard), hugged her, and, just as I expected,

I tried to answer that it was just my condition, but it was at that exact moment that my jaw

I tried to force myself to stop laughing but it only made it worse.

She leaped to help me, but I finally pulled myself together and got on to looking under

I think She got offended by my attitude, but I promised myself to explain everything to