If you know you're about to laugh involuntarily but really, really don't want to laugh at such a wrong time, how do you force yourself to stop laughing before it starts?
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Egao No Genki
ANSWERS: 5
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I don't try and stop it! Just let it out, it may be inappropriate but what the hell, who cares. Happens to me on a regular basis =)
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i bite my lip and look the other way all the time laughing inside
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I have a mantra I use in these situations. I remind myself why I am doing what I'm doing. At work, for example, I just cannot express humour in the situations I find funny. Earlier this week I fired an employee and she went a little crazy; it was hilarious because she was so angry she was drooling. Her hair had come out of its clip and she looked really wild; I wanted to crack up, but that is very bad form and would only have exacerbated the situation. I used, "My goal in this moment is to diffuse this problem". Silly, but it works every time for me.
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Bite your tongue.
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I just hold it in. Learned that as a manager and supervisor. It may sometimes be humorous but not as a supervisor.
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