I'm sure that the actual situation wasn't at all funny - and I don't mean this as any reflection on the actual situation, but the way you worded it, it reminded me of one those comedic routines in which the comic portrays a character who is blaming everyone else for over-reacting to a supposedly trivial event which the audience soon realizes was not so trivial - you know, "And then I had to talk to them on the phone for half an hour before they'd give me one lousy cigarette. Fortunately, my hostage was a non-smoker ... " - that sort of thing; that's all.