Onions Make Most People Cry

(It’s exam week and half of my chemistry class isn’t in, so we have light revision, Our teacher mentions the properties of nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas. I turn to my friend.)

Me: “I wonder what it would be like on that. You’d find everything funny.”

Friend: “True. I mean, you could put a red onion on the table and it would be hilarious.”

Me: “Spinning it would set us into laughing fit.”

(We actually imagine this and start laughing to the point that our teacher sees us.)

Teacher: “Why are you two laughing?”

Me: *giggling* “We are just laughing at spinning an imaginary red onion.”

(There’s a long pause.)

Teacher: “I never expected that kind of response…”