Tears in Heaven

So I was just listening to that Eric Clapton song "Tears in Heaven" on my iPod while I was ironing M's clothes and that song always makes me think about this story from my childhood which simultaneously makes me laught and feel guilty.
So when I was a kid I played soccer (actually I played all my life, into college NCAA D1, but thats a story for another post). Anyway, we used to have a carpool to go to practices and this girl was in my carpool and we were really good friends in school and everything too. So one day, "Tears in Heaven" comes on the radio and we have this conversation.

K: This song always makes me sad because it reminds of my best friend's dad's funeral back in Oklahoma (she used to live there).
Me: Wow, that's really sad, how did he die?
K: (very seriously) He was gored to death by a water buffalo.
Me: (laughing so hard that if I had been drinking milk it would have come out of my nose) Are you kidding me?
K: (very hurt and offended, and almost crying) Why is that so funny? He was a water buffalo farmer, there are lots of them in Oklahoma.
Me: (feeling very guilty now and like a real idiot) Oh, sorry.

So now whenever I hear that song I think about how this guy I don't know and never met in my life was "gored to death by a water buffalo." And as awful as it is and as guilty as it makes me feel, I still snicker just a little bit. I think it was in her delivery, please tell me I'm not a horrible person!