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I, Fart Guy

Posted 03.13.2008 by Rosewood Bitters (10)
Doing sales on the road is a lonely thing. You have to adjust to spending time alone in the car, in restaurants, and in motels. Unfortunately you pick up some really bad habits as well -- habits that ordinarily would horrify you, but, since no one knows about them, you're free to do. A few examples include talking to yourself, burping, eating in the car, yelling at other drivers, talking to the television in the motel room, sleeping in the nude, farting in the bathtub, peeing in the shower, smoking cigars in the car, and farting in the car. Loudly.

When you're alone so much that you start automatically doing these things, there's a real danger to accidentally doing them when you're finally around people. One time I stayed in an adjoining motel room with a business associate; at breakfast the next morning, he said, "Who were you talking to in the room last night?" He knew I usually leave my cell phone in the car overnight so that nobody can bother me during non-working hours. I had to fumble for answer, but you could tell by the look in his eyes that he thought that I was blue-skinned inbred who needed to be euthanasied with a sharp ice pick. I scrambled to remember what I had been yelling at the TV, but it must have sounded sociopathic in nature, because the dude refused to go on business trips with me after that.

My poop story has to do with that last bad habit: farting in the car. I usually pass gas in the car by raising my butt from the driver's seat and expelling it as loudly as I can. This technique expedites the whole process -- you don't have to rip a series of junior farts and prolong the process.

You know what's coming next.

I had driven in from Jackson, Mississippi, and arrived in Birmingham at the offices of an aerospace firm whose name you would recognize. I was bringing some plans to three purchasing agents, the entire engineering group, and the VP of the whole outfit. That morning I'd slurped down four coffees, a danish, and a particularly foul-smelling ham biscuit from Bojangles, and the whole deal was fermenting in my gizzurts. It felt like somebody had forced a rotting turkey buzzard down my throat, poured a melted can of Sterno over it, let it sit for an hour, and then forced some canned spray cheese into my nostrils and made me swallow it.

I was late for the meeting, so no time to use the restroom first. I came in and we all sat in boardroom chairs. If I had to guess, I would say there were about twelve of us in there, waiting for another VIP to join us. I was bored and lost in my thoughts as the wait began to drag on, and that is when it happened. I had been living and working alone much too long, and it was time to be outed.

Releasing my cheeks, I hunkered my hindquarters up and tried to blow out the festering fart as if I was giving birth to a porcupine. It sounded like a cat caught in the fan belt of a forklift.

The entire room went silent and I realized that I'd just ruined my career.

My jaw dropped open and I said the first thing I could think of: "I'm sick."

You could have heard a snake fart. Nobody knew whether to laugh or pretend nothing had happened. A couple moments later, one person started to laugh, and then the whole room exploded.

That very instant, the VIP walked into the room. And he smelled it.

He looked as if someone had just told him that his seventy-four-year-old grandmother was expecting triplets after visiting an anonymous sperm bank. I saw several emotions in his expression: surprise, anger, shock, revulsion. And then he started looking around the room to see who had unleashed the fart. All eyes fell onto me, and I wanted to die.

"Are you feeling better?" asked the oldest woman in the room. And then there was another outburst of laughter. The VIP, though, never laughed once. (Apparently they walked on eggshells around that guy. I guess he was some type of high-ranking Klan member during his off hours.)

The odor lingered in the room like gray clouds of smelting medical waste thrown up by a sick Alpaca. It was the worst half-hour of my life. After the meeting, nobody said a word about it. I got back in the car and went back to Jackson. When I entered our building, my boss came out of the conference room and said, "What in the tarnation happened over there?" The VIP had called him -- and he seemed to think I'd done it on purpose.

My boss warned me that I'd be fired if it happened again. But I saved him the trouble -- I slinked out of the office at the end of the day, having decided to move to Florida and start a new life. I'd been dreaming of doing it for a long time anyway -- I was that tired of being on the road alone.

When I applied for a sales job back in Mississippi five-and-a-half years later, the first thing the interviewer asked me was, "Is the fart story true?"

By that time I could laugh about it. "Every word of it," I said.

He hired me anyway.

doniker (1517) -- 03.13.2008

What is with the part at the end?

Are you joking or are you trying to say you put the fart story on your resume as the reason you left that job?

If so that is hard to believe.

Shit Rick (18) -- 03.13.2008

It's mississippi. I think he's implying that you can't escape gossip in an area like that.

Thunderbox (761) -- 03.13.2008

Good story, RB. I hope you`re no longer on the road and now have a nice big office that you rip them off in.

I thought everyone talked to their TV...and fridge, cooker, toilet, microwave....

Eoz (not verified) -- 03.13.2008

Why would you leave your cell phone in the car instead of just turning it off?

Nice story.

Lame comment!
Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 03.13.2008

I hope this "pissing in the shower" thing isn't commonplace! Can you say nasty? You should be _ucking shot _sshole!

baron von crapalot (444) -- 03.13.2008


Great stuff! 'It sounded like a cat caught in the fan belt of a forklift.' -

my only problem, is forklifts don't have fan belts.

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like a constipated accountant- I worked it out with a pencil.

Bilgepump (1471) -- 03.13.2008

BVC, electric fork lifts don't have fan belts, but L.P. powered, or gasoline powered forklifts do, just as you would on a car engine, to cool off the radiator.

catinthescat (not verified) -- 03.13.2008

You must have been in a room full of shamefull flatulaters because a shameless farter would have laughed to tears from the sound and the denseness of the fumes. I would have had trouble maintaining boardmeeting seriousness after hearing and smelling a high molecular weight gas such as the one you just shared. Gas falls out of me a lot. I'm always praying "oh God, not now! someone will hear or smell it and know it's me! I say "fall out" because it doesn't stop to say hi on it's way out the door.

p.s. I walk the fence b/t shameful and shameless shitter/farter...and I LOVE to talk about poop and farts.

Poop - There it is.. (26) -- 03.13.2008

Damn thats funny.. I'm surprised you didn't offer to crack a window or something..

C Everett Poop (587) -- 03.13.2008

What's wrong with pissing in the shower? I shit in it.

CC (not verified) -- 03.13.2008

Ah yes,the 236 mile 3 hour and 32 minute drive along I 20 between Jackson and Birmingham.A lone driver and his flatulence.You got hired because the boss knew you are one fart fellow.

pnuttycorn (189) -- 03.13.2008

AC, since when was pissing in the shower a crime worthy of getting shot? Jeez. I'm FEMALE and piss in the shower all the time. I didn't even know it was dirty.

I too have farted in inappropriate situations. I coughed and let out a lil squeaker at a job I had been at literally a few days. Thank God they laughed.

Anal About Poop (238) -- 03.13.2008

1) Funny story.
2) They seriously told you they would fire you for farting again? What if you had a genuine medical condition?
3)I pee in the shower all the time, but never with my husband in there.

Loo Grunt (14) -- 03.13.2008

Amazing how a fart can be the catalyst that changes the course of a human life.
Good idea to avoid eating foul-smelling ham biscuits even if you are not about to attend an important business meeting. But if you are attending one, four cups of coffee without a bathroom break, even if the sandwich isn't rotten, is pushing the limits of human containment.
A good story with many insights and valuable lessons.

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No ooze is good ooze.

The Thunderous ... (651) -- 03.13.2008

Yeah a company with a humorless shitty boss is NOT worth the trouble of working for. You did the right thing KUDOS! Its a good thing you didnt crap your pants I think I would have sharted.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

Crapatoa (8) -- 03.13.2008


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I'm just a "regular" guy...

Great comment!
Powersoak (not verified) -- 03.13.2008

Bilgepump, you are so right. Experiencing the heat coming out of an LP fueled forklift is like walking past an open door to hell.

I'm surprised you didn't offer to crack a window or something...
Poop there it is, I am more surprised that the fart didn't crack or shatter a window all by itself. I am afraid that if I had been there I would have lost my job because I would not have been able to stop laughing, the kind of laughter where you can't talk and almost can't breathe. When I was in college, the mother of my best friend and another lady went to an exercise class at the community center. One morning one of the other ladies "broke wind" and, just because these two fine ladies could not stop laughing, they were asked to leave the class.

I have been waiting for most of my life to be in a worship service when someone farts loudly, maybe during a silent prayer. I just wonder what the gamut of reaction is going to be and if I am going to have to get up and leave while I still have strength to walk. And, almost as funny as the original fart are the bursts of noise coming out of people trying to stifle their laughter. I wonder if it would bring the service to a halt; would the organist be able to play, etc.

daphne (3325) -- 03.13.2008

My favorite line was the one about your seventy-four year old grandma knocking herself up with knuckle children. Pure genius. This was the first story that has made me bust out laughing in a long, long time. When I read the line "I'm sick." and it hit me what you actually did, I lost it.

So very nicely told!

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

PINWORM (138) -- 03.14.2008

"I slinked out of the office at the end of the day, having decided to move to Florida and start a new life. I'd been dreaming of doing it for a long time anyway -- I was that tired of being on the road alone.

When I applied for a sales job back in Mississippi five-and-a-half years later..."

That is the saddest most pathetic line I have read on Poop Report. Failed dreams, slinking back to sales in Mississippi after clearly failing at your dreams..and having the fart story haunt you still.

Lame comment!
Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 03.14.2008

there is nothing wrong with pissing in your own private shower, but in a hotel? Have you no consideration for the next person who might take a bath? you are a scumbag, period.

Why not take a poll to see if pissing in the shower is acceptable to the offenders spouse!

daphne (3325) -- 03.14.2008

Of all the things in a hotel room that might be bacteria-laden or grody, someone's pee that most likely has been rinsed down the drain should be the least of worries. Howabout the top cover of the bedding that may not get laundered every time the room changes hands?


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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Poopaloopa (not verified) -- 03.14.2008

Who takes a bath in a motel?

Great story, I recall letting out a huge fart in 6th grade computer class when it was dead silent. I said that the chair squeeked. Too bad chairs don't also smell like eggs.

Forrest Dump (not verified) -- 03.14.2008

One time I was sitting in my car in a parking lot and farted LOUDLY. An old lady happened to be walking by and it was loud enough for her to hear on the outside of the car, she gave me a dirty look at she passed by. True story.

Merc (100) -- 03.14.2008

Buncha Anal Retentives On here?

1. It was obvious from the story that the Vip THOUGHT he did it on purpose simply because he'd raised up his ass cheeks before doing it. It wasnt an SBD.

2. Daphne's right. Hotel rooms are full of sperm in ever corner and surface. Piss is the least of your worries.

3. I assume he was fairly young, probably thirties during this fart story, and so having "retired" to florida for life was obviously a temporary detour that he had every intention of resuming his career. That he'd do it back in Miss. would seem obvious enough, therefore, i just dont get the "pathetic" aspect of it.

4. I assume the aersopace business is a tight knit ship, a small niche, so a fart story like this would likely make the rounds'.

Great comment! +1 point
shitwit (532) -- 03.14.2008

Hey powersoak-
I did let one rip in church, a very loud one, during silent prayer, seated on a long pew in the very center of the church. I was 4 years old. My grandmother was next to me and she was mortified! All the parishoners looked at her and then at me. Some of the men smirked, but the ladies were just too uptight to stop scowling at me. My grandmother leaned over and hissed: "Why didn't you save that for later?!" I couldn't stop giggling after that. In just a few seconds the smell emerged and people were covering their noses and fanning themselves. The priest stopped his sermon and pointed his long bony finger at me and said: "OUT OF THIS CHURCH AT ONCE!" My poor grandmother nearly wept as she led me out of the church in utter shame. When we reached the door the priest added: "I will be outside after Mass. I am going to have a talk with you, young lady!" After Mass I had to wait for him to say buh-bye to all the parishoners before he came over and smacked me across the face - right there in front of my grandmother! I almost kicked him in the balls I was so humiliated that I got smacked in the face by a priest. Who cares if I just ripped ass in church and everyone else heard it and smelt it (and for those sitting in the same pew: felt it too). I was more horrified that the wack-job priest just hit me in front of my grandmother. But you know how karma has a way of setting things straight. Many years later he got busted for child molestation on nearly 30 boys over his career. Who's sorry now, Father?

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Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

Great comment! +1 point
shitwit (532) -- 03.14.2008

But back to the story: I love all those things that one does while alone. Mr shitwit and I have become so comfortable that we do all those things around eachother and sometimes forget when we have company over or when someone else is in the car too. We really spoiled our first child with all the rudeness. Poor kid has gotten in trouble in preschool for belching at the lunch table, he got put in a time-out in school recently for farting at another kid and then saying: "I pooped up your nose."

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Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

Hieronymous Bowels (122) -- 03.14.2008

I'd have done the fart-loudly then give a shocked look at the guy next to you thing. Nothing like ripping off a healthy air biscuit and blaming the other guy.

baron von crapalot (444) -- 03.14.2008


Bilge, yes they have fans, but fan belts? Direct drive surely?

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like a constipated accountant- I worked it out with a pencil.

Bilgepump (1471) -- 03.14.2008

Nope...

Deja Poo (606) -- 03.14.2008

Jeez, AC. If you can't stand the notion of somebody else's piss, you better not go to a public swimming pool (or the locker room of your neighborhood gym.)
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

MSG (452) -- 03.14.2008

Great story--I laughed aloud. As for going back to Mississippi five years later--I can well imagine it. I have known people to move to the big crowded places and eventually move back; and sales is a transportable skill. Just keep farting--it's still fun!

MSG (452) -- 03.14.2008

I just remembered an incident my brother-in-law told me about. Perhaps 20 years ago he was working in a government agency and attended a meeting at which maybe 50 people were listening to a very svelte, perfectly groomed official give a fairly starchy formal talk on an abstruse governmental issue. The room was quiet. Suddenly a door slammed, and the lady speaker, startled, farted quite loudly and unmistakably, at which the audience dissolved in laughter, in which the speaker soon joined.

My own most embarrassing recent fart memory is of a time perhaps eight years ago when I was in conference with a female student. I felt the pressure and moved to try to downshift it, but it popped out instead, briefly but prominently. I apologized profusely to the student, but she said, "It's just nature; never mind."

Bloody Stinktube (7) -- 03.15.2008

ok, in order here... rosewood - AWESOME story!! some of the funniest metaphors ive seen on here yet. i wanna read more like this one!!

shitwit - ur kid sounds fuckin awesome. the pooped up ur nose thing is one of the coolest kid-sayings that ive ever heard. :)

bvc - bilge is right... you could just look it up instead of arguing with somebody whos obviously been around more than one kind of forklift. ;)

Poop Benedict XVI (not verified) -- 03.15.2008

First off, Shit wit, I apologize for someone who was obviously unfit to wear the collar of Priest. Frankly, if it were my Mass I would have had a very difficult time keeping a straight face. I am sorry he slapped you and may God forgive him for I surely never will. like you can blame a little kid for an accident was this pre Vatican II? I will never forget as long as I live being on a retreat to a Monestary and we had all gathered in a circle to talk and discuss God speaking through prayer about 60 of us were there and we were having a moment of SILENT reflection you could of heard a pin drop then, it sounded like someone was revving a 1979 Harley Davidson it lasted 6 seconds!!! then back to dead silence no one wanted to say a word but, being a jerk I casually remarked, Well, that sure didnt sound like God speaking to us! everyone feel apart laughing and that was the topic for the rest of the weekend. Good luck Shit wit And God Bless.

baron von crapalot (444) -- 03.15.2008


I shit corrected then Bilge.
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like a constipated accountant- I worked it out with a pencil.

Lame comment!
Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 03.16.2008

Not even steelworkers piss in the shower. If you do, you are a loser or a really nasty ho.

Steelworker Joe (not verified) -- 03.16.2008

How do you know what I do in the shower? Are are you watching me? Perv.

daphne (3325) -- 03.16.2008

I'd be willing to bet that all these anti pissing in the shower comments are from the same person.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

CC (not verified) -- 03.16.2008

Why do you think they call them golden showers?

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 03.17.2008

Pee is sterile, unless you have a urinary tract infection. And it's liquid, so it washes right down the drain. So what's the BFD about peeing in the shower?

Jeez.

My super-hardcore-neat-freak wife doesn't even mind knowing that I pee in the shower, provided I at least make a half-assed effort -- er, I mean a half-cocked effort -- to whiz more or less down the drain.

Hieronymous Bowels (122) -- 03.17.2008

I've peed in the shower, off the front porch, on the neighbors mail-box (I let the dog have the first whack at it).

shitwit (532) -- 03.18.2008

Remember the Seinfeld episode when George peed in the shower at the gym? There's a guy who lived by himself and was used to doing all the things you're "not supposed to do around other people". I don't think I'd whiz in a shower that shared common drains with other showers, but a single shower - hell, yeah I'm gonna pee in it!

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Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

prarie doggin (1546) -- 03.18.2008

The shower is a small private room with a somewhat penis-shaped object spraying a warm liquid down on you. What more of an invitation does a man need?

Bilgepump (1471) -- 03.18.2008

Whoa, DUDE!!! If your dick looks like my showerhead, you better get your own ass to a doctor, quick!!!!

Oh, and very good to see you back, PD, missed ya!

prarie doggin (1546) -- 03.18.2008

I did say "somewhat". Those vagina shaped shower heads are so hard to find. Oh and thank you, I missed youse guys too.

Bilgepump (1471) -- 03.18.2008

Uh, PD...what did you do with Logjam?

prarie doggin (1546) -- 03.18.2008

Oh shit. Was I supposed to pick him up with the snowmobile?

Bilgepump (1471) -- 03.18.2008

Snowmobile, crane, forklift, whatever it takes...

Teddy (20) -- 03.18.2008


_Very good story i liked it.A Boss that would fire you over a fart is mean old fart!!After the point where you own up to letting the foul wind blow.If you had some book matches and had lit one to burn up the smell maybe the old fart wouldn't have smelled your old fart??We keep matches in the bathroom it really helps alot.I don't blame you for changing jobs.Being alone on the road is bad and dangerous.P.S also you could rip a fart sometime so bad you mite pass out and have a wreck LOL..______
teddy

daphne (3325) -- 03.19.2008

Prarie doggin'. Back in the usual fashion, making me laugh! Tomorrow when I shower, I'm going to look above me and feel dirty even though I'm getting clean.


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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Blind Mullet (180) -- 03.29.2008

KNUCKLE CHILDREN ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Thats the best term I've heard for ages!!!!!
I'm going to have to use that one next time I'm calling someone a wanker. Instead of "Ah, go have another wank, ya big tosser", its going to be "Ah, go pump out a handful of knuckle children" !!!
Love it!!!

Blind Mullet (180) -- 03.29.2008

A quick story. I did something similar to what Rosewood did, i.e. forgot my surroundings about 8 o'clock one morning on a railway platform. I was standing at the end of the platform, leaning over the fence and deep in thought. When I first got there, there was no-one around (probably because all the people had just gotten onto the previous train). Some time must have passed, but I hadn't noticed. I felt that happy feeling that says theres a big dry fart on its way down, so when it got to the freckle, I pushed it out fairly hard. Good one! Loud, and sharp, with a certain authority.
It was only then that it occurred to me that there hadn't been a train through there for a while, and sure enough, when I looked around, there were dozens of people standing behind me. No-one said a word! I was bloody embarrassed, but somehow I couldn't help giggling, too.

Logjam (2356) -- 03.29.2008

I missed this story while I was away. Best in a long time. Hope you have more for us, Rosewood Bitters.

daphne (3325) -- 03.29.2008

Mullet, my son's band wrote a song called "Knuckle Children" about all these possible world leaders, artists, and talented people who were flushed down the toilet.

It's a funny song.

That kid.


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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

RoboCrap13 (308) -- 03.29.2008

And people wonder why I use the British term "Wind Cheater" for a lightweight jacket... ;)
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You have the right to remain Silent but Deadly....

Fartist (not verified) -- 06.03.2008

Beautiful!!!

I'm sure you've read my Craigslist story:
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/521082131.htm

The Shit Volcano (3646) -- 06.04.2008

A few lines in this story made me laugh until tears streamed down my cheeks:

"You could have heard a snake fart."

"It sounded like a cat caught up in the fan belt of a forklift."

Every word of the opening paragraph.

I can think of all the habits I got into traveling alone on my storm chasing and travel photography expeditions. Including farting in the bathtub, blowing asswind in the car, and laying naked in the motel room making snide comments to a Disney Channel program that no one had to know I was watching. (Except my dog Reedy, but he's not saying anything.)

And Daphne, I agree. It sounds suspiciously like the same AC who has been attacking regular PR's on the rest of the site. Most likely a teenager who has nothing better to do with his time.

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Born right the first time.

ChiefThunderbutt (229) -- 06.04.2008

When you get old and have trouble peeing the shower is an inviting place. Nothing like warm water trickling down the bod to help release the bladder's content.

Even though everyone pees in the pool I am the only one I know of who was kicked out for this common occurance. Maybe it was because I did it from the high diving board.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

prarie doggin (1546) -- 06.04.2008

www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=635
Chief, it's called Bathroom break for a lifeguard and is one of the funniest pool peeing videos.

John Poo-Shack (39) -- 06.04.2008

When I was 14 years old and in the 8th grade, I had something similar happen during my final period English class. Every day, near the end of that period there was something called "Sustained Silent Reading Period"... we had to read a book or a magazine. We could bring our own or select something from the classroom shelf. Anyway, I'm at my desk with my copy of MAD, and I'm getting gas pains. I'm at the back of my row, and I figure I could let it out silently. So I let it out, and instead of a silent exit, I hear a trumpet sounding a note that sounds like an A flat one octave above middle C (did I mention I was a Band member?), and it lasted about 7 seconds. After the note died off, I hear muted laughter from the rest of the class and see looks of disgust from the girls sitting ahead of me. The teacher then says "John, excuse yourself to the restroom the next time that happens, please".

That day, the reading period should've been called "Sustained Butt Trumpet Note Period".

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