I usually have two types of farts: “happy” and “deadly.” Happy farts usually have a funny sound and little or no smell, and everybody has a good laugh. Deadly farts seem to have a mass, like in old movies where you can see the smoke hovering over the swamp. Wind has little or no effect on them, and the smell seems to linger in a particular area for a long time. Usually, the smell can best be described as “finding the decomposing corpse of a cat after 3 weeks in the sun.”
When I sleep at night, if it’s warm, we usually turn on a little room fan. The fan is at the foot of our bed, and we set it to oscillate from left to right.
My wife has the firm belief that if either of us farts in bed, the best thing to do is to flap the blanket up and down to give the gas a chance to disperse.
One night, I don’t remember what I had been eating, but I was laying the Deadly type fart all night long. At bedtime, we turned on the fan and went to sleep. However, I continued farting under the blanket. After one particularly loud one, I heard my wife moving around.
Me: Honey, don’t move.
Her: sleepily No…no…why don’t you…open the blanket?
Me: It’s ok, just leave it under the blanket.
Her: Yawns It will be fine…don’t be scared…lifts the blanket oh…OH…OH MY GOD!
Of course, I knew how bad it was so I didn’t raise my side of the blanket, so the full force of my swamp gas went to her side of the room.
Her: IT’S NOT…IT’S NOT GOING AWAY!!
Me: Warned ya, you dummy. When are you going to listen to me?
At that moment, the fan shifted from her side of the room to my side, bringing the gas to my side. As every guy knows, you don’t think your own fart stinks. However, what I found out was that if you don’t smell your own fart immediately, smelling it later hits you with the same force as if someone else did it.
Me: HOLY SHIT! IT’S GOING UP MY NOSE! AIIIEEE!