the anatomy of a laugh

you may not know this, but i am a loud laugher. i am the one in the movie theater who laughs so hard you think blood might shoot out of my nose and i violently clap my hands. i am an obnoxious laugher. i also have a variety of less intense laughs, though. i have the chuckle, the giggle, the silent laugh, the snort, the chortle, and the infamous donkey. i also have numerous faces to accompany these diverse laughs, but i should really just post pictures of those.

however, at dinner tonight, i experienced a laugh even more annoying, obnoxious, loud and generally unpleasant than any laugh i every dared utter. it came from a small, stout, dark man in his late 20s. he was sitting at table with a group of about 5 college or just-graduated-from-college-but-still-wearing-their-fraternity-shirts-and-hats guys. so, the whole table starts laughing as they look at a roll of developed film, and then i hear it. if it had to have a name i think i would call it: the janice. you all know the not-so-welcome character on the hit tv series friends.... janice. she is annoying, and her laugh has a life all it's own. so, i thought that this guy just had a really unfortunate laugh. no, sarah was mistaken again. not only did this not-so-good-looking guy have a horrible laugh that would scare any woman away, but he also had a very annoying voice. i tried to out-do him by laughing REALLY loud, clapping my hands, and doing the infamous swaying back and forth motion that sometimes happens before, during or after my loudest laughs. it didn't even phase him. he just kept on laughing. perhaps it was a good thing. his laugh is so loud that he probably couldn't even hear all of the rest of the world laughing at him.