It's okay to feel bad after you've laughed. I really haven't felt the guilt yet after secretly laughing at some people's names...
My mother works at a dry cleaners, and she needs to take down the names of the patrons. One's name was Phil McCracken...She apologized for laughing and asking "You're serious, aren't you?"
Just a few days ago I was writing down names for Safewatch applicants, and one of the student's names was Ivan Pavlov. I looked at him and said "Really?" He laughed and said that he got that kind of thing all the time.
In the 12th grade, we had a teacher whose first name was Shanno (oh dear God I hope she isn't someone who frequents this site...because then she'll know who I am and that I secretly laughed at her name for quite some time with my friends!) we always thought that it was a typo on the sheets of paper we were given, like the course outlines and everything. Anyway, we soon realized that it wasn't, and being the vindictive and cruel kinds of people we may be, we laughed about it.
After a while, this--laughter and amusement subsided (mind you it took quite a while). It was a computer class, and the teacher had this way to make all of the computers see the same thing on their screen as she was teaching us this lesson, and this particular lesson happened to be in Microsoft Word. She wrote in her name three times, and each time it underlined in red, which--did make my friends laugh, I had this ability to hide my laughter without blowing out my eardrums.
Somewhere in the class, I think everyone heard it, someone asked "Her name is Shanno???"
I couldn't help it--such pressure diverted from my ears and went out my nose in laughter, I had to leave the room. I do feel bad and petty for making fun of someone's perfectly healthy name, at the time I think I even felt a little bad, but--it was kind of funny, still.
I don't think I'll ever forget the way that girl sounded.
Bad... :devil: