Contagious laughter
Squeals and shrieks. Giggles and guffaws.
Laughs of all kinds, barring the highly annoying ones (recall Janice from “Friends” fame).
A good belly laugh does wonders for just about anyone’s mood. Step that up a notch to contagious laughter and it's priceless.
In the past week, I’ve been fortunate to be swept away by just such fits of laughter on a couple of occasions.
The first time involved a young girl seated in the row ahead of us during a Sunday afternoon showing of “Despicable Me” at Charlottetown's Empire Theatres. Every time an animated character would say or do anything related to farts, the girl down front would let out peals of infectious laughter, which would cause our shoulders to shake with giggles. She may have made me chuckle as much as the movie did. :)
The second case of giggle-itis was a serial episode. On two consecutive days this holiday weekend, I shared countless laughs that carried across sand and water. At both Greenwich and Lakeside—and I’m sure countless other PEI beaches—children were in the throes of laughter as they jumped waves, buried parents in the sand, ran with kites, fled from siblings, watched water fill sand castle moats…
Beach days and outrageously funny movies can readily trigger laughs in kids, and luckily for us, some giggles are highly contagious.
AWESOME!
Laughs of all kinds, barring the highly annoying ones (recall Janice from “Friends” fame).
A good belly laugh does wonders for just about anyone’s mood. Step that up a notch to contagious laughter and it's priceless.
In the past week, I’ve been fortunate to be swept away by just such fits of laughter on a couple of occasions.
The first time involved a young girl seated in the row ahead of us during a Sunday afternoon showing of “Despicable Me” at Charlottetown's Empire Theatres. Every time an animated character would say or do anything related to farts, the girl down front would let out peals of infectious laughter, which would cause our shoulders to shake with giggles. She may have made me chuckle as much as the movie did. :)
The second case of giggle-itis was a serial episode. On two consecutive days this holiday weekend, I shared countless laughs that carried across sand and water. At both Greenwich and Lakeside—and I’m sure countless other PEI beaches—children were in the throes of laughter as they jumped waves, buried parents in the sand, ran with kites, fled from siblings, watched water fill sand castle moats…
Beach days and outrageously funny movies can readily trigger laughs in kids, and luckily for us, some giggles are highly contagious.
AWESOME!
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