Time Gone By

Dominic was telling me about how he'd slammed into another kid at school and both of them skid across the ground. He was laughing as he told me so I made the comment that it must have been pretty funny.

"No, it wasn't. It was kind of horrible."

"Then why are you laughing?"

"Because it's past tense. Ms. Beth-Anne said sometimes you laugh about stuff when enough time has gone by. So that's why I'm laughing now."
I guess several hours is enough time!