I was poorly a couple of days back. One evening I went to buy some groceries from Sainsbury's, I was in a hurry, I was still feeling sick and wanted to get home as quickly as possible. Unfortunately when it was my turn to pay, as I walked up to the cashier, I let out a horrible-smelling fart. The lady and gentleman behind me must have sniffed it, I know because I could smell it but I couldn't stop myself.
I was so embarrassed and I caught a glimpse of the woman pinching her nose with her fingers. I am thinking now, should I have turned around and said, sorry that was me.
Do we apologise for farting??? Especially if it comes with an offensive smell.
I've also noticed, if the fart has a sound, it usually has no odour.
Its only those silent ones.....
thanks for your opinions
love satchi
Lol lol lol, oh dear, no never apologise - indeed, the ruling goes that he who smelt it dealt it, and he who denied it supplied it!!!!! :p And yes, the silent but deadly ones are the worst - you poor thing, must have been horribly embarrassing. Don't worry, the woman probably thought the man had done it - they are the worst for that kind of thing ;-)
Hehe, yup stressed, our version was: "The one who smelt it dealt it" to which you'd then reply "The one who said the rhyme did the crime". Puerile but funny :-)
And don't worry Satchi, the woman was almost certainly doing her little nose-pinch routine so that her partner wouldn't think it was her (which he quite possibly did anyway, hehe). I think we probably should just be honest and own up to these things the way we would a yawn or belch, but I've rarely seen it.
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lol Satchi I came on this forum in a foul temper and you've just cheered me up so much now!! I don't think you need have apologised at all, that's life! And as Teek said, it was probably the woman trying to make it obvious that it wasn't her! :-)
Also I think this thread is well suited to the off-topics section, as much other threads on contraception, dating advice etc, none of which I have a problem with...
Heck Satchi, never apologise for farting! Any animal with a GI tract has to do it. My mum's dog is the best; it farts when it's half asleep and scares itself senseless.. We'd actually die if we didn't (we have to expel 2 litres of bowel gas a day). I suppose it's all a question of timing and discretion, and you just misfired.
You're only doing what comes naturally! See the NHS video below.
http://www.nhs.uk/video/pages/medialibrary.aspx?page=35&filter=&id={95b2e54d-46f8-47eb-a1c5-d5694f7cf1bc}&tag=&title=nhs+videos+|+flatulence&uri=video%2f2008%2faugust%2fpages%2fflatulence.aspx
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It's an SBD - Silent But Deadly. Do not own up to a trump in public, unless it was loud and undeniably yours, then you can make a joke of it. But do not apologise.
If it helps any, I did the loudest trump of all time during the silent bit just before the Lord's prayer at junior school weekly assembly when I was 9. The entire school was there, everyone knew it was me, and there was much laughter, inluding a cooment from the headmaster. Afterwards, 'farty' was incorporated into my nick-name, but it didn't hinder me socially at all, at school or afterwards...
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