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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
January 15, 2014
Some of the most endearingly annoying people you can meet and want to choke are those with poker faces who make you laugh and their expression does not change.
I was always unable to hold back my mirth at say, the school assembly, and he would make some delightfully risque remark and the laughter would bottle up then burst out and the perpetrator would have this deadpan expression and nothing got through him but he had you in splits.
It was always a serious occasion like a wedding or a funeral or a seminar or the big boss giving a speech and we are looking solemn and so concerned and attentive and then this chap would say something so totally appropriate that the giggles would start building into a gale of laughter and churning within as you tried to control yourself and ‘behave’. He would add another sotto voce line and now you are doubling up with laughter and he is just as bland as rice pudding. But he has 10 of you hit with the sheer infectiousness of it and now you are in that state where it won’t hold anymore and into that majestically somber atmosphere your guffaw would ricochet like a bullet off the walls and from red-face with suffused laughter to red-faced with embarrassment was one final surrender, you just couldn’t hold it anymore.
And then you’d get those dirty looks and ‘ssssshs’ and that would make you laugh even more and this tribe they have that capability of triggering your collapse with a sentence and you are off again.
Okay, it was fine in school but when it happens as an adult and the occasion is somber, it just makes it funnier and funnier and funnier and there is just no safeguard against that absurd craziness that gets you going.
Me, I avoid these people as much as I can because I know it is no win situation. It’s the laughter I miss. You know exactly what I mean, we all have someone like that in our group, and that bad conduct is pure joy.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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