this is an incident that happened to me just a couple of weeks ago. Originally posted it on theNADS Straightdope Board, but what the hell, its time for more people to laugh at my misfortune… (btw sorry for the length!)
In which utkik shames himself - at a funeral
Okay, an ex-girlfriend’s younger brother died the other day, and yesterday was the funeral, and I had hoped to go in a sincere and sombre fashion to pay my respects. But no, some things just have a way of going wrong. And wrong they went, as follows:
First off I was late. Now that wouldnt usually bother me if it was a regular Jebus mass, but something like this is a different story. So I arrive in to a packed church, and because I knew the family so well, I had to go up near enough to the front. so that meant a lot of shuffling and head turning and glares and I swear the priest paused a little to let people know he was being distracted by this black-hearted heathen who was earning himself a cosy little spot in the firey pits of Hades. So after a couple of more tuts, I find a pew and squeeze in (and squeeze I did - trust me to pick the row specially reserved for the wheezy asthmatics who spend all day watching Judge Judy and eating deep fried chocolate)
So the ceremony had started at this stage and the priest was picking up a good rhythm with all sorts of verbose crap. And of course my attention starts to wander …
Priest: “Who can know the mind of God? Who can know His intentions?”
Me: I wonder what Macho Man Randy Savage is doing these days?
Priest: “We must realise my children, that God is love, and though his ways are strange, He brings us all into his bosom”
Me: Jake the Snake Robert’s wife was hot. She had a good bosom.
Priest: “So though the deceased has gone from this mortal coil, he is happier now, looking down on all of us”
Me: That blonde bird has a nice rack too. Man, I wish I had an Audi S8 right now, I’d rev the hell out of the thing. vrrooooom vrooooom!
Priest: "Let us now take a moment to ourselves to reflect on God’s everlasting Love.
Me: I need to fart.
And this is where it started to go a little wrong for me. The church fell into a revered silence, and I started to regret the Bran Flakes I had for breakfast. You know when you can actually feel the bubble of the fart sneakily slide towards your ass? Well I had my sphincter on full lockdown and the evil thing was still squirming to get through. This was not good - the church was crowded, and the church was quiet.
So I focused all my zen on willing the fart to just retreat back a little, promising the little guy that if he waited for another 10 minutes then I would happily tootle him out at Mach 2 in a fiery brown frenzy. Well he seemed a little happy with that and went back to hibernation. I breathed a sigh of relief, and while everyone else still pondered the mind and will of God, I went back to thinking how big my swimming pool would be when I win the Lotto.
But I felt something else happen - the Surprise Sneeze. Now we all know what this one is. The usual sneeze gives about a 20 second warning - you spend the 20 seconds looking like youre chewing a lemon ball so sour it has to be contained in its own magnetic field while saying “aah aaaah wuh wuahh wuuaaahh hya hyaaaaaa CHOOOOOO”. But the surprise sneeze is the ninja assassin. One second youre fine, the next youve ruptured your abs and sprayed yourself. You get about a second of a warning.
So this is what happened to me. It crept up on me all quiet like and then screamed “BOO!! HERE I AM, I’MGONNAEXPLODEANDYOURENOTREADY!!!” So I had about a milisecond to realise: “Shit, this isnt good, I have to try and numb this down so I dont spray the congregation”
So I stopped the sneeze (thank you God). But I forgot about some fundamentals of physics, namely Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes from one form to another. So all the tidal wave of sneeze energy had been blocked, but it couldnt just dissipate. No, it had to rebound off my throat and hurtle back down, aided by gravity, as an avalanche. Evil Farty McFart saw this and shouted “Woohoo!!! Surf’s up dude!!”
And lo, the evil burst forth into the world. A clammering of the bells from Hell and the evil sulphur of Satan himself cracked into the congregation, and spread throughout the holy house.
Now most men (and not a few women) are secretly proud of our farts , but by Jeebus this one rocked me to my core. Not only was the stink pure and utter concentrated malevolent evil, but the noise was a wonder of the world. Not a wet spluttery tootle, nor a high-pitched squeal but somewhere between the two. Dogs dropped dead at the whistle, yet the rumble was enough to be felt as a tremor in Armenia.
And of course, this didnt go un-noticed. Everyone else was just wrapping up their private reflections when this started so the silence was quite deafening. My only saving grace was I was in a Holy House, otherwise I’d have been belted by blue-rinsed old ladies’ handbags from all directions. All the blokes in the surrounding few rows went red holding the laughter, while all the women went indignant and insulted. But when the smell hit them it turned into a sniffing, coughy chaos. My name was marked from then on as an evil demon. So I mustered wht dignity I could and quietly slipped out at communion time.NADS Straightdope Board