This is why arguments with my parents rarely went well.

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"How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad?
Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad."



.Barenaked.Ladies. I always loved this line because it named that unexplainable tendency I have toward utterly innappropriate emotional reactions. I mean, I'm feeling guilty and wretched and awful, and I want to cry, but instead I start to giggle. A lot. It used to piss me off, because of course it never helped my efforts to appear/express sincere.