A fine turn of phrase.
I don't know why this struck me as so hysterical, but from Jeff Lindsay's novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter", where the protagonist describes morning traffic in his typical dry and detached, yet perceptive and amusing manner...

At the LeJeune on-ramp, a huge dairy truck had roared onto the shoulder and hit a van full of kids from a Catholic school. The dairy truck had flipped over. And now five young girls in plaid wool skirts were sitting in a huge puddle of milk with dazed looks on their faces. Traffic nearly stopped for an hour. One kid was airlifted to Jackson Hospital. The others sat in the milk in their uniforms and watch the grown-ups scream at each other.

Why is that funny? I'm not really sure. Perhaps it comes from knowing the character better the second time through, and picking out how his delivery of this scenario contrasts to his observations on and narration of later happenings. Perhaps it's just schoolgirls in milk. Perhaps it's just well written.

I think I may be onto something with that last one. The style carried through Lindsay's novels is a tremendous example of conversational storytelling mixed into a first-person viewpoint. The overall effect is that the reader shares the experiences of the protagonist, but in a manner that suggests a comfortable couch in the Mind's Eye of said character - where you and he reflect on the significance of everything that is happening.

Brilliant.