I can definitely relate--I am terrible about this; once I start laughing, I it's really hard to stop! To make matters worse, the more inappropriate it is, the more I've gotta laugh...

We were at the funeral of my uncle, who was very close to our family. He wasn't very old, and we had all been crying--

The priest conducting the service was up there, chatting away, when suddenly I noticed what he was saying.

"So, the ___________ ministry was founded to take church services into the prisons, to minister to the inmates there. If you are interested in volunteering for our ministry, or would like to make a contribution..."

I leaned over to my sisters. "Hey! Was that a COMMERCIAL?" I hissed under my breath. Well, it was all over then. All three of us lost it...
The best we could hope for was that people would think that our convulsing shoulders were the result of sobbing in unrestrained grief.

My uncle was not a prison inmate, had never BEEN a prison inmate, was not a minister, and didn't volunteer for preaching committees. WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? I'd love to have seen the wheels turning in his mind--it HAD to be an intricate configuration, to come up with that one!   

We never did figure it out, and no one else seemed to notice the commercial OR our temporary hysteria...

denise:^)