When Did I Last Laugh Out Loud?

Spent the weekend with old friends and we were laughing constantly. I don’t think anything we said bears repeating. You had to be there and go through the good times and the bad times we’ve been through together over the years. But I spent three days in good company with a smile on my face and it doesn’t take much to turn one of those into a chuckle or a laugh or a fit of the giggles. The single funniest moment was overheard in a cafe where we heard a curmudgeonly elderly woman ordering a bacon roll for breakfast and saying to the poor waiter: “And can it not be burnt to a crisp like last time….?”

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This article is part of The Human Collective. Each week we take a prompt and create a playlist and accompanying articles. This week we were wondering when did you last laugh out loud? Check out the playlist: Songs To Make You Laugh Learn more about The Human Collective here.

Jon Ewing

After graduating from the University of Keele in England with a degree in Politics and American Studies, Jon worked as editor of a music and entertainment magazine before spending several years as a freelance writer and, with the advent of the internet, a website designer, developer and consultant. He lives in Reading, home to one of the world's most famous and long-running music festivals, which, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, he had attended every year since 1992.