Some memories are *so* funny they just stick with you. I recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to share the funniest thing they ever witnessed in public. Here are the stories that still make them laugh to this very day:
1. “One time, my family and I were walking back to the car from a restaurant, and we passed by another family eating at one of the outdoor tables. A teenage boy sitting there ripped a gigantic fart while we were walking by. It was so odd because they had no reaction to the fart, so we just kept walking by, too. Once we made it to the car, we were like WTF and started laughing.”
2. “This is gonna start off sounding like I’m horrible, but this woman in a crosswalk got hit by a van that was illegally taking a left. Not her fault at all, and it was terrifying! But as she was flying across the intersection, she went, ‘weeeeeeeee!’ She got up as if nothing happened despite her getting thrown like 15 feet.”
—butlerj03
3. “I was shopping at Target with my partner in crutches. An old man approaches me and says, ‘Young lady, you didn’t need to push him down the stairs.’ This still makes me laugh when it pops into my head because I was going through a really hard time, and he just made my day.”
4. “Not something I saw, but something I heard. I was out shopping, and I overheard a conversation between two coworkers at the store. A guy and a girl, both probably in their early 20s. They were talking about their store’s security guard and how, apparently, he had to tackle a customer trying to steal from the store. She described the whole scene to the guy, and then they just stood there silently after she finished the story. Then the guy said, ‘OK, honey, but can he please tackle me?’ They burst out laughing, and I damn near lost it myself!”
—Anonymous, 33, Minneapolis
5. “I once watched a little girl pull cuticle scissors from her mother’s purse and proceed to cut a LOT of her mother’s hair off. It was in the grocery store. Mom was chit-chatting with her back to the kid, and the kid was standing behind the cart. Lots of hair on the floor. Maybe not funny, but YIKES.”
6. “A frazzled dad checking in at the pediatrician’s office with his wife’s panties fresh from the dryer stuck to his back.”
—wittyaardvark165
7. “On Halloween last year, I was out with my family, and there were a lot of kids lining up to take photos with this ‘statue’. My parents called me over, saying something to the effect of, ‘Hey, check this out, aren’t they cool?’ Of course, me being the overconfident adult I was, I COMPLETELY brushed it off, going, ‘Pshh, that’s not a real person!’ Lo and behold, what I thought was a nice prop was, in fact, a person who handed me the most humiliating correction by simply taking two steps forward. This simple movement elicited a VERY undignified shriek and near tumble into the front lawn. My family laughed their heads off. All I could stammer was, ‘OK…nice costume.’ 😭 Talk about an instant karma jumpscare!”
8. “I was in CVS and overheard a woman tell her husband, ‘You can think, just don’t talk.'”
—flyerboy6
9. “My boyfriend was driving his truck and accidentally hit a traffic cone. It got lodged under his truck, and as we looked out the review mirror to see what happened, it popped out in the middle of the road. It honestly felt like we were in Mario Kart. We laughed so hard when it popped out.”
10. “While waiting in the pickup line at my daughter’s school with my son in the car, he points across the street to an elderly gentleman in khakis, a nice polo, and dress shoes standing ever-so-tall with his hands on his hips right over a fan-style sprinkler that’s on and says, ‘I think someone lost their grandpa.'”
—radiantphone768
11. “It was a crisp October day. I could hear a motorcycle coming up on the right side of my car. On the back was a full-size skeleton holding onto the driver. Not something you see every day! I guess he loves Halloween. 🎃”
12. “My brother was getting married in an outdoor setting, and I was a bridesmaid. I got dressed at home as the wedding wasn’t far from our parents’ home. When we arrived, I noticed that another bridesmaid had her dress on backwards and was already standing in front of the assembled guests. Think a big, early 1990s bow in the middle of her stomach rather than on her back. My poor mother had to approach her and direct her to quickly find a place to turn it around before the ceremony started. I can’t fathom how she thought that big bow should be placed on the front of the dress!”
—witchybook822
13. “In high school, we got to leave campus to eat at McDonald’s and some of the fast-food restaurants in the shopping center across the street. On a rainy day, as a group of us students crossed the crosswalk, a girl tried to hop over a puddle, slipped, and fell in. Papers, books, everything went flying. She was fine, of course. Suddenly, an ambulance that was at the light waiting for us to cross announced over their paramedic speaker in a booming voice: ‘ARE YOU OK? DO YOU NEED MEDICAL ATTENTION?’ She and everyone in the group burst out laughing.”
14. “Madison, Wisconsin, used to have the best Halloween party downtown. One year, I saw four guys dressed all in white, with big, round spots on the front of their outfits, followed by a guy holding a cardboard square with a giant spinner. Each time they came upon a group of women, the four in white would lie down next to each other and become a human game of Twister. Still makes me giggle.”
—Anonymous, 69, Minnesota
15. “I once saw a guy trip on the escalator at the mall. Then he said, ‘Nobody saw that.’ My husband and I still laugh and say that anytime something awkward happens.”
16. “I worked in a huge office complex. Big enough for it to have ‘you are here’ kiosks. The kiosks also had phones attached to the side for inside calls. I was walking with some colleagues and staring at a woman I didn’t like. I walked full body into the side of the kiosk. The whole phone dropped to the marble floor, and everyone from miles around stopped to see what the commotion was.”
—bestlatte6345
17. “I call it the ‘Headless Singing Dog.’ I had a job after high school working at a local amusement park. I worked near a patio area with tables where guests could sit and eat. In the middle of the patio was an automated animatronic dog band show. Four animatronic dogs stood upright, dressed in overalls, with banjos and other instruments. Most of the time, the curtains around the stage were closed, but every 15–30 minutes they would automatically open and the show would start, with the dogs singing and playing their banjos.”
“The workers mostly tuned it out because it was all day, every day, and really annoying after a while. But one day the curtains opened, and the lead singer’s dog’s head had become detached and was hanging upside down by his shoulder. But all the wiring was still connected (and visible), so he was still singing, and his mouth continued moving. It was both horrifying and hilarious to a bunch of 18-year-olds who were tired of the show. We could barely walk straight from the fits of laughter, but several of us went out to try to shut it down, but no one knew how to turn it off. We couldn’t even get the front curtains to close to hide it. We ended up calling park security because we didn’t know what else to do. It’s still the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.”
—Anonymous, 52, Northeast
18. “We’re second in line for the train at the zoo. Ahead of us is a family with a little boy, maybe five or so, who is hella stoked about the train. Like, trains are this kid’s whole world. It comes chugging around the corner, the kid literally starts shaking with excitement and yells, “CHOO CHOOOO!” in the most metal voice I have ever heard. So funny, so cute!”
19. “I worked across the street from a small public park that had public restrooms. One day, I look up and see a FedEx truck pull up in the parking lot right in front of the public restrooms. The delivery driver gets out, runs full speed to the restroom, and almost falls on his face the whole way. He made it safely. Well, at least his face did, not sure about his pants.”
—Anonymous
20. “We hiked to a permanent snow field (similar to a glacier) in July to experience snow in the summer. It’s very steep and slippery in the summer as the top layer melts and freezes. Going up was challenging, but the people going down looked like they were struggling even more. It was more sliding than walking. I stopped and considered how much higher we should go when I heard two grown men screaming. Two gigantic huskies came flying down the snowfield above me, clearly enjoying the snow. Running, yelping, jumping. Their humans still had them leashed and were being dragged down the mountain. I do mean dragged.”
They would manage to get on their feet for a step or two, and the dogs would take off together and pull them down maybe 25–30 yards before they could get them to stop so they could try standing up again. These two dudes were scraped up, covered in snow and dirt, leaving a trail of gear behind them, but those dogs were having the time of their lives. Some kind hikers, also on their way down, collected their gear. I’ve never laughed so hard.”
—Anonymous, 44, Denver, Colorado
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