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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To say Dh’s farts spoiled our day out?

168 replies

Snap8TheCat · 12/04/2018 15:55

He obviously thinks IABU.

Yesterday we went on a family day out to a historical building. The children are at an age where they really enjoy this sort of place and particularly love history.

We spent the day looking around the buildings and listening to speakers, enjoying artwork, reading plaques and taking photographs etc.

However I feel the day was interrupted by Dh’s noxious gas. God knows what he’d eaten but my goodness it was so embarrassing. We kept having to move on quickly due to the smell. He doesn’t usually emit quite such a foul stench and I appreciate he did need the loo and couldn’t help it.

Aibu to say his farts really did spoil the ambiance and concentration required of the venue? He says he couldn’t help it and so IABU.

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VladmirsPoutine · 12/04/2018 16:22

I can't see how this is funny but each to their own. It sounds all in all rather grim for you and others that were in his proximity.

Tartyflette · 12/04/2018 16:23

Name change fail, OP? .....

moofolk · 12/04/2018 16:24

Leave the bastard.

Springtrolls · 12/04/2018 16:24

I think the toilet suggestion is to let rip in there.

Takfujuimoto · 12/04/2018 16:24

Oh dear.

The80sweregreat · 12/04/2018 16:26

another well done to having children that enjoy looking around stately homes!
maybe he had eaten something dodgy the day before or you dont notice it as he usually just does it at work or on the loo?
he should have gone outside though.
eggy fart boy in the cafe!! oh dear. mind you, as you age your sense of smell does tend to be less so i probably wouldnt have smelt it.

DanceDisaster · 12/04/2018 16:27

He won’t go for a poo out of the house. He’d rather fart all day

Hmmmm a little bit his choice then. Unless he has severe anxiety about public loos or something.

BlankTimes · 12/04/2018 16:28

Cut his carbs for a few days before you go anywhere that's likely to be in a confined space with him. Easter Grin

SchadenfreudePersonified · 12/04/2018 16:29

He bagsied first in the toilet on the way home.

God help you all!

OliviaStabler · 12/04/2018 16:29

YANBU. Disgusting behaviour. Bet he can hold them in when he wants to.

mangomama91 · 12/04/2018 16:32

YAbothU for having children who enjoy stately homes

Pahahahah
That made me laugh far too much

mooncuplanding · 12/04/2018 16:38

I know a man given a written warning at work for obnoxious farts

He then did it in a pod on the London Eye with another family in it and was one of the nails in the coffin for his dw. They are now divorced.

StormTreader · 12/04/2018 16:39

Food intolerances can appear later in life, it might be worth him testing cutting some food out of his diet. I have found that in the last 5 years, raw onion or large amounts of cooked onion are now a "no" food for this reason.

Blobby10 · 12/04/2018 16:40

My Ex used to think it hilarious to make a 'thing' out of farting ie lifting one side of his bum off the chair at the dinner table to 'let it out', making a big deal of the smell (in a 'oh isn't it hilarious' way) when out anywhere, etc. It was just what he and his family and friends did. He got a lot better throughout our marriage but when that failed, the real him re-surfaced, as did the fart jokes and the smells. My new BF also farts but discreetly and always apologises - just as I do! We are all human and all fart but why make a big deal of it?!

Or am I a prude? Confused

Dumbledoresgirl · 12/04/2018 16:41

Cut the guy some slack! I used to frown inwardly at my mother in law who was very farty. Even though I could see she was trying to hold them in, a lot would escape and she was as embarrassed as we were, but it was still annoying. A few years passed, and suddenly I find myself in her position. No, you cannot always hold them in. When I am bad, I can't even stand up without one escaping. It is mortifying. I certainly would not be doing it for a laugh or to spoil someone's day ffs.

The80sweregreat · 12/04/2018 16:41

I cant eat certain foods ( onions and peanuts spring to mind) as they make me very gassy and i hate it too. I have to really be careful these days and lots of things are off the menu.

MizCracker · 12/04/2018 16:43

Hey everyone! Let's all compare fart anecdotes! It's not like we don't have a regular pee/poo/period/fart troll fishing for stories!

Beeziekn33ze · 12/04/2018 16:45

Time he learned to use public loos, they vary of course but most are ok. A thread elsewhere had several posters insisting that men's are cleaner than women's!
I've encountered two I couldn't bring myself to use. One was an unlit earth floored cave at a small Spanish railway station, I didn't even go in. The other was in a large busy bus station in Boston Mass. Filthy.

He could at least have gone outside. Once is forgivable but not letting off all day. It won't have been very good for his bowels either, he'll maybe get haemorrhoids. When you've gotta go, you've gotta go!

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 12/04/2018 16:47

I am Farticus

Dumbledoresgirl · 12/04/2018 16:49

If someone is getting off on this, then

I don't think that should stop other people informing some very ignorant and childish people about a genuine and infrequently talked about medical issue.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 12/04/2018 16:50

Imaginarycat

Grin
Snap8TheCat · 12/04/2018 16:52

Grin I’m not a troll! Feel free to report me if you think so!

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BabyGardiner · 12/04/2018 16:52

I never used to mind DPs farts until I was pregnant (9+6) and turned in to a bloodhound. I have hyperemesis and his farts now make me vomit! He goes outside or in the other room.

If I wasn't so sick I would just deal with it. Fart in his direction next time or do a massive one under the covers tonight when he's trying to sleep as payback Wink

Dancingleopard · 12/04/2018 16:53

There are farts and their are bad farts.

I hate walking in to people farts. I would have called him smelly fucker

AlonsosLeftPinky · 12/04/2018 16:56

I fart a lot, part and parcel of my IBD. I don't need the toilet tho.