Library

Today in the library, my best friend was talking online to this boy that everyone has the biggest crush on. He is incredibly awkward himself, but everyone always wants to impress him. I told her that he was also in the library when she told me that they were talking online, but she didn't seem to care. Five minutes later, she got up to go the bathroom and said she couldn't hold it. In fear of peeing her pants, she said that if she ran to the bathroom, she wouldn't be able to make it so she had to walk very slowly (which didn't really make sense in my mind at the time). Five minutes later, she walks back, practically in tears, but tears of laughter. I asked her what happened, and she said that she was walking to the bathroom really slowly and was taking really small steps without really moving her legs. She then did an impression of it for me, and I told her to hurry up and tell me what had happened. She said that when she was walking to the bathroom awkwardly, she was talking to herself (as she often does), turned the corner, and then the boy was right there awkwardly staring at her. She said that it was the most awkward thing she's ever had to deal with, and that her only reaction was to hysterically laugh in his face.

Here, my friend, lets call her Sarah, and the boy, let's call him Dave. Sarah wanted so badly to not embarrass herself on the way to the bathroom, and everyone wants to try and impress Dave. When Sarah laughed, I think she was laughing because not only was she a, ridiculously uncomfortable, and b, super embarrassed, but the situation was also very incongruous and full of irony. What were the chances that right when Sarah had to go to the bathroom, Dave was going to leave his study room and walk by Sarah making a fool of herself? Here, I think we can say that her laughter wasn't solely a natural response to embarrassment and awkwardness, but that her laughter was also a response to the incongruity and irony of seeing the boy she likes, needing to go to the bathroom, and deadly stares at each other when they were literally talking five minutes before.