Laugh.

Laugh: to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements (Dictionary.com, 2014). This is what one must do when faced with a situation that is, as some would say, rather embarrassing.

Here’s the story:

Traveling to school can take a toll, as my sister discovered one early fall morning. Like any other day of commuting, the air was dry and the bus was full, holding conversation was just something done regularly. Feeling parched, she grabs her Hoops for Heart water bottle and takes a sip. The bottle, as if in slow motion slips from her grasp and lands directly on her lap leaving a vast area that, to the uninformed eye, makes it look like she had peed herself. As the bus pulls into the school, she is prepared to make a beeline for the bathroom to dry off her jeans. Standing in the washroom, drying off her pants a fellow student enters the restroom. While trying not to make direct eye contact the student slips into the first stall available. My sister remains standing, drying off her pants, only to wait and see what happens when the student exits the stall. Minutes later, she hears the toilet flush and even though she's trying to avoid any awkward encounters looks in the general direction of the stall, the student exits and makes immediate eye contact. As the girl standing in her underwear, with pants in hand under an automatic hand dryer my sister feels it’s only appropriate to say something to her fellow student.

“You think this is awkward for you, I’m the one not wearing any pants.”

Reference:

Laugh. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrueved January 14 2014, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/laugh