You can learn a lot about someone by their laugh. If you’ve ever had a good chuckle with someone, you know a person’s laugh can be infectious, obnoxious, or even hilarious in their own right. But deep down, everyone has that one person who’s laugh they just can’t stand.

“It sounded terrible. It sounded like something was like, actually wrong with him,” said senior Dominick Etienne, as he attempted to describe one of his friend’s laugh. Dominick said he doesn’t really care, but he feels the need to point out his friend’s weird brand of screamy laughter the more he hears it.

Judging from my depressing summer camp experience, having a quirky laugh can either create you or assist in your complete social suicide.

“I thought he was just kidding until I saw him the next day and he did it again,” said junior Ivan Marroquin describing the laugh of a middle school friend. “He would legit just scream at you and like slam his fist on the desk like a monkey, it was hilarious.”

While it can be entertaining to hear a person who can’t control it laugh like an angry horse, and as much as I’d like to call them out on it more, It can be brutal to be the one who receives flak for their genuine laugh, which I think is a little unfair.

“People always imitate it back to me which makes me mad,” said a junior whose chuckle was apparently so annoying that he chose to remain anonymous. “It’s not like something I learned, its just actually how I sound.”

Whether they can control it or not, I think we should be grateful for freaks like this. If everyone shared the same canned giggle, it would quickly become meaningless, which is why I think we should learn to appreciate the quirkiness of each individual laugh.

So even if your laughter is bad enough to crack the glass on an iPhone, go ahead and laugh, and if someone stops you, keep laughing until it hurts… both of you.