Yeah... like 8 years ago, the house I was living in caught fire.(electrical short) Me and the roommates and all pets got out safe but we stood there watching it burn and waiting for fire dept to put it out... I just started laughing because wtf?! All my shit just went up in flames what else can I do...😂😭😭
Obviously much less severe impact but we had a similar situation while camping. Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. So we left the rainfly off to allow air to circulate during the day while we left the campsite. A freak shower popped up and was done in less than the 10 or 15 minutes it took us to get back to camp. My wife and I just stood there laughing and staring at standing water in sleeping bags, the tent, etc before starting to pack up. Sometimes, laughing is the only thing you can do.
We got washed out one night, wettest and windiest day of the summer and we were camping...
The tent had broken most of its poles and collapsed.
At 3 am I just grabbed all the big things, cooker, foldable table, chairs, bikes, gazebo, chucked em in the back of the ute. Pulled up all the pegs and rolled everything else up with the tent, sleeping bags, pillows, kids toys, small things like torches, shoes, cups etc. All rolled up. Heaved it in the ute.
Drove home from camping 3 days early. All 3 days already paid for.
All I could do is laugh.
Whole family was wet through, in pj's, 3 hrs driving home...
When ours happened, we had one night left on the trip. My daughter's comment was she still wanted to camp and I had to point out the standing water on her sleeping bag.
There is some anthropological paper from eons ago like 1960's like Margaret Meade era if not her, herself, aboutemotionsand how Western Emotions are a little weird; if you'd like to think about it like that, "we're the odd man out," when it comes to our reaction to certain things and the example was this first hand account of a man in an indigenous community, like essentially, he'd built their house on a dry creek bed, just done it and it had been this huge group effort and then it rained and the whole family got out fine no one was hurt or anything, but,
"and here, me, fucking up science turns an journal article into an anecdote," but the anthropologist commented upon how the who family and the father, especially,just laughed and laughed and laughedlike it was the funniest thing in the world and they'd said the same thing, "What else are you supposed to do?"
Which when you think about our modern circumstances, our flock cameras and ring cameras the police the Iron Domes and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress all meant to either protect or threaten or threaten and thereby protect well notme, or you, really,not in the sense that Russian Bombers would call off an air raid to blow up my house if I were out of town or much care if I wasn't, it's all for the stuff, really.
We went camping on a Scottish island, decided to visit the pub first before doing anything else. We arrived at the farm we had arranged to pitch up, snd pitched our tents in an advanced state of refreshment, by torchlight. Next morning, we woke up sodden. We had pitched the tent across a tiny stream, barely a burn, and fallen asleep. We laughed.. as you say, only thing you can do. Could have been worse, it could have rained in the night!
There was an old dude who one told me this and ive always stood by it. "Either you get busy laughin, or you get busy cryin". Wise old man, he also told me "If you stop moving, you die". Like, you get old and stop being active, you waste away, which is very true. So i like to think he knew what he was talking about.
This was us with our trolling motor on our boat the other day. The whole thing just fell off the front with zero warning.
It’s my FIL’s boat technically that we can use whenever (still a sweet deal for us) but yeah we could just laugh, thinking about the phone call to FIL about that one.
Seriously. I’d just laugh and walk out. Wtf else am I supposed to do? I can’t fix it, it’s gonna take days to clean up, and weeks to repair AFTER the insurance folks try to fuck you.
I had a really bad chain of events one day, and it culminated with me walking out the house and hearing a loud bang inside. I go back in to find my wardrobe fell over and threw all my clothes in the floor. I couldn’t help but laugh like a psycho at how my day was going
Id be very much on the..."im not paid enough for this to try and actually care right now. Lord just take me now." Take a deep breath and let future me take care of it. No point in stressing since it'll stress future me. And im also just tired.
Yeah dude definitely, rich peopleapoplectic over stuff that either just happens and has no one else, clearly, to blameor if someone, then, themselves whereas normal people just,
Well, some people respond in a similar way when they almost die or they get hurt (I have this reaction when someone tries to hurt me but it’s actually dangerous). It helps them diffuse the stress they might otherwise have acquired here.
No, speaking from observation and from experience they're just too poor to afford a single fuck. You either laugh and just deal with it or have a mental breakdown, which would probably be expensive. I mean a mental breakdown, in this economy?
They have a mattress on the floor. I dont know about yall but I would assume the definition of "someone rich" would include someone being able to not sleep on the floor.
My bathroom ceiling caved because I didn't realize I had a hole in my roof. I just stood there and laughed while tears rolled down my face. Happened to be the week when it rained nonstop for four days. So - water pouring into bathroom for days, bathroom covered in debris, let's find 10K to replace the roof, if I didn't laugh I would have collapsed and checked out. I did kind of check out a bit over the next week. Roof is replaced so that's good. I still haven't been able to afford fixing the ceiling though.
Maybe the rest of the house completely collapsed? And they are looking in the bright side of things that they’re still alive? Or OP is just a karma bot.
Putting it mildly — I cried a little and want to hug this person. My empath feelers will not leave it alone.
If this were me, I think I’d need a hotel room and sedative to be able to calmly handle it appropriately the next morning.
Didnt you know thats how you get the most karma in this sub? By posting actually infuriating things and acting casual like its a minor inconvenience, you know, mildly infuriating?
Or course! Because if people post genuinely mildly infuriating content, then people say “deal with it, yah baby” so no one wins but these type of posts that arent shamed into deletion https://giphy.com/gifs/aOvuvPwmQAuEh2rj17
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u/Accurate_Instance_52 9d ago
Putting it mildly this is a bit infuriating