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<h2>Once you get caught in a fit of laughter, it can be pretty difficult to stop.</h2><p>Laughing is amazing, but it&#39;s also an involuntary response that can cause a lot of problems if it isn&#39;t an appropriate reaction. Combine an uncontrollable fit of laughter with the sacred craft of a children&#39;s Christmas play and you have a real recipe for at least one angry parent...</p><p>Christmas plays performed by children are generally always pretty hilarious. There&#39;s usually only one or two kids who know how to speak up and everyone else&#39;s lines are either forgotten or vague whispers. If it&#39;s a church pageant, there&#39;s definitely some awkward hand holding between Mary and Joseph and usually at least one of two kids who have to play some sort of poorly costumed barn animal.</p><p>When a recent<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/e94y2b/aita_for_laughing_at_a_kid_in_my_nephews_play/"> Reddit</a> user chose to consult the conscience of the internet (Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?) to ask if he should feel guilty about his behavior at his nephew&#39;s Christmas play, people were more than happy to chime in with valuable advice. Beware, this story paints a very clear and hilarious picture that might ruin future children&#39;s performances...</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h1>AITA for laughing at a kid in my nephews play</h1><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" onload="(__markFirstPostVisible || function(){})();" src="https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/img/renderTimingPixel.png" /></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Ok so i have a feeling i know the answer to this one already - but i just want to see from a bigger POV.</p> <p>My nephew is 8 - he was staring in his first Christmas play, my sister invited me to it since i was coming to see her that day anyway. We all get in, all the kids in the school are sitting down in front of the stage and all the parents/family are standing at the back. My nephew was playing as a reindeer. Everyone in his class has an equal role, about 2-3 lines worth of stuff to say.</p> <p>My nephew was brilliant, nailed his lines, he really looked like he enjoyed himself, so then we just had to stand and wait for all the other kids to have their parts and then we get to congratulate the kids after.</p> <p>This one girl, same age as my nephew was playing Mrs Claus - she was visibly nervous and shakey, it came off more cute than awkward - as she was saying her lines, she got a bit flustered and forgot a part - she got a little stuck on it and there was silence for about 4 seconds. Then all of a sudden, the girl just said &quot;Oh fuck! i forgot!&quot; - There were a few gasps among the parents - all the kids were sniggering, but i just lost it, i dont know what it is about young kids swearing but i found it hilarious. I was snort laughing and many people turned around to look at me, i tried to take myself out of the hall and try to compose myself, but i got to the door and i just ended up falling over and laughing harder, i was wheezing, my stomach hurt and i just couldn&#39;t contain myself. I&#39;m a 30 year old man and this was my defeat.</p> <p>The doors are just glass doors so i crawled out to the hallway just outside of the main stage hall but you can clearly still seem me through the door and i&#39;m assuming you could still hear me. I took myself to the toilet - splashed some water on my face and returned to the hall. Some parents and kids kept looking at me and giggling, understandably so.</p> <p>After the play finished, i congratulated my nephew, said how good he did, and then i saw the little girl who swore and her mum, i went over to apologise for laughing - the daughter seemed absolutely fine, she was just happy that she was on stage but the mum was very annoyed with me - i said sorry to her and the mum said something along the lines of &quot;Remember where you are, it&#39;s very immature to laugh at children.&quot; and took her daughter away.</p> <p>My sister said not to worry about it, the mum is a bit of a fun sponge anyway, but i feel a bit bad about what happened.</p> <p><strong>EDIT for clarification and FAQ:-</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>I only fell on the floor laughing when i got to the door, only a few parents at the back would have seen that part.</p> </li> <li> <p>This wasn&#39;t my son, it was my nephew, it says that in the title.</p> </li> <li> <p>The initial snort-laugh when the girl first said it was the only part where people were staring at me and giggling.</p> </li> <li> <p>I cannot stress enough that i didn&#39;t do this for attention and to steal the light, im not that type - i&#39;ve had a rough few months with some deaths and i think that may have factored into why i laughed so hard at this.</p> </li> <li> <p>I&#39;m a gay 30 year old with no kids so this one really took me by surprise (evidently)</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>I definitely don&#39;t blame this guy for laughing especially since a child swearing during a Christmas show is incredibly funny. Of course, if he was a massive distraction and made the child feel bad then it would be different but he excused himself from the room and tried his best to be polite.</p><h2>&quot;mishapymissy&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>I would have done the same</p> </blockquote><h2>&quot;YuunofYork&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>The mother is an asshole for misreading the situation. She knows the rest of the room will assume the kid picked it up from her and she&#39;s embarrassed by that.</p> <p>When she should be <em>proud</em>.</p> </blockquote><h2>&quot;mandiexile&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>It&rsquo;s totally fine that you laughed. I would have chuckled. Kids cursing is hilarious. But you should have at least tried to keep your composure. Seems like you made a huge scene.</p> </blockquote><h2>&quot;cyfermax&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>That shit&#39;s hilarious. The mother was clearly just embarrassed. You weren&#39;t laughing <em>at the kid</em>, you were laughing at the scenario of a kid using adult language. It&#39;s funny.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>&quot;KirMa83&quot; wrote:</h2><blockquote> <p>My daughters Christmas play was last week. There was a song titled &ldquo;Funky Reindeer&rdquo; and one child in her class sang &ldquo;fucking reindeer&rdquo; instead for the entire song. I was DONE. Tears, stitches, the lot. Had to remove myself to the hallway where the head of the school was also dying of laughter.<br /> Kids swearing shouldn&rsquo;t be funny but when they do it it&rsquo;s just ALWAYS funny.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Man asks if he was wrong for laughing uncontrollably during his 8-year-old nephew's Christmas play.

Once you get caught in a fit of laughter, it can be pretty difficult to stop.Laughing is amazing, but it&#39;s also an involuntary response that can cause a lot of problems if it isn&#39;t an appropriate reaction. Combine an uncontrollable fit of laughter with the sacred craft of a children&#39;s Christmas play and you have a real recipe for at least one angry parent...Christmas plays performed by children are generally always pretty hilarious. There&#39;s usually only one or two kids who know how to speak up and everyone else&#39;s lines are either forgotten or vague whispers. If it&#39;s a church pageant, there&#39;s definitely some awkward hand holding between Mary and Joseph and usually at least one of two kids who have to play some sort of poorly costumed barn animal.When a recent Reddit user chose to consult the conscience of the internet (Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?) to ask if he should feel guilty about his behavior at his nephew&#39;s Christmas play, people were more than happy to chime in with valuable advice. Beware, this story paints a very clear and hilarious picture that might ruin future children&#39;s performances...AITA for laughing at a kid in my nephews play Ok so i have a feeling i know the answer to this one already - but i just want to see from a bigger POV. My nephew is 8 - he was staring in his first Christmas play, my sister invited me to it since i was coming to see her that day anyway. We all get in, all the kids in the school are sitting down in front of the stage and all the parents/family are standing at the back. My nephew was playing as a reindeer. Everyone in his class has an equal role, about 2-3 lines worth of stuff to say. My nephew was brilliant, nailed his lines, he really looked like he enjoyed himself, so then we just had to stand and wait for all the other kids to have their parts and then we get to congratulate the kids after. This one girl, same age as my nephew was playing Mrs Claus - she was visibly nervous and shakey, it came off more cute than awkward - as she was saying her lines, she got a bit flustered and forgot a part - she got a little stuck on it and there was silence for about 4 seconds. Then all of a sudden, the girl just said &quot;Oh fuck! i forgot!&quot; - There were a few gasps among the parents - all the kids were sniggering, but i just lost it, i dont know what it is about young kids swearing but i found it hilarious. I was snort laughing and many people turned around to look at me, i tried to take myself out of the hall and try to compose myself, but i got to the door and i just ended up falling over and laughing harder, i was wheezing, my stomach hurt and i just couldn&#39;t contain myself. I&#39;m a 30 year old man and this was my defeat. The doors are just glass doors so i crawled out to the hallway just outside of the main stage hall but you can clearly still seem me through the door and i&#39;m assuming you could still hear me. I took myself to the toilet - splashed some water on my face and returned to the hall. Some parents and kids kept looking at me and giggling, understandably so. After the play finished, i congratulated my nephew, said how good he did, and then i saw the little girl who swore and her mum, i went over to apologise for laughing - the daughter seemed absolutely fine, she was just happy that she was on stage but the mum was very annoyed with me - i said sorry to her and the mum said something along the lines of &quot;Remember where you are, it&#39;s very immature to laugh at children.&quot; and took her daughter away. My sister said not to worry about it, the mum is a bit of a fun sponge anyway, but i feel a bit bad about what happened. EDIT for clarification and FAQ:-   I only fell on the floor laughing when i got to the door, only a few parents at the back would have seen that part.   This wasn&#39;t my son, it was my nephew, it says that in the title.   The initial snort-laugh when the girl first said it was the only part where people were staring at me and giggling.   I cannot stress enough that i didn&#39;t do this for attention and to steal the light, im not that type - i&#39;ve had a rough few months with some deaths and i think that may have factored into why i laughed so hard at this.   I&#39;m a gay 30 year old with no kids so this one really took me by surprise (evidently)     I definitely don&#39;t blame this guy for laughing especially since a child swearing during a Christmas show is incredibly funny. Of course, if he was a massive distraction and made the child feel bad then it would be different but he excused himself from the room and tried his best to be polite.&quot;mishapymissy&quot; wrote: I would have done the same &quot;YuunofYork&quot; wrote: The mother is an asshole for misreading the situation. She knows the rest of the room will assume the kid picked it up from her and she&#39;s embarrassed by that. When she should be proud. &quot;mandiexile&quot; wrote: It&rsquo;s totally fine that you laughed. I would have chuckled. Kids cursing is hilarious. But you should have at least tried to keep your composure. Seems like you made a huge scene. &quot;cyfermax&quot; wrote: That shit&#39;s hilarious. The mother was clearly just embarrassed. You weren&#39;t laughing at the kid, you were laughing at the scenario of a kid using adult language. It&#39;s funny. &quot;KirMa83&quot; wrote: My daughters Christmas play was last week. There was a song titled &ldquo;Funky Reindeer&rdquo; and one child in her class sang &ldquo;fucking reindeer&rdquo; instead for the entire song. I was DONE. Tears, stitches, the lot. Had to remove myself to the hallway where the head of the school was also dying of laughter. Kids swearing shouldn&rsquo;t be funny but when they do it it&rsquo;s just ALWAYS funny. 

Once you get caught in a fit of laughter, it can be pretty difficult to stop.  Laughing is amazing, but it&#39;s also an involuntary response that can cause a lot of problems if it isn&#39;t an appropriate reaction. Combine an...