To ask loudly if someone needs the toilet!

[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

Am on the train and someone near me has done a silent and deadly. It is vile! Should I do what I do in my classroom and ask very loudly if someone needs to go to the toilet!

Short answer, no.

Yes but you must stand at the front of the carriage first.

No one is going to admit to it!

Ah like the time I was watching the DC's swimming lesson being irritated by this dad sitting next to me who was shuffling around in his seat into me and bouncing his restless legs around into me The lady on the other side leant over and said 'someone needs the toilet'

Maybe that person has a stoma and can’t help it

Only on MN ^

Please be kind, don't embarrass someone like that

I thought my colleague had dropped his guts the other day. It turns out it was his sausage mcmuffin.

Smelly wind doesn’t automatically mean someone needs the loo

Do it! I dare you! And use your best shrill schoolmarm voice when you do!

Haha! I think people will think you did it, if you draw attention to it. As they used to say at my school, "the one that smelt it, dealt it!"

No,that's just mean.
Getting older seems to have screwed my digestion and the balance between not enough fibre/ too much has got tricky - result,sometimes problems such as you describe,despite my best efforts.
I know it's horrible,I hate it myself,I'm trying to fix it.Having public attention drawn to it would be......no,just don't.
It's not deliberate and it's not funny - why mention it?

It's April fool's day. The OP is a fool

Are you on the central line by any chance?!

Its worrying thaf you embarress the children you teach in such away.

Even more embarressing that you'd consider doing it on the train

GROW UP

"Its worrying that you embarrass the children you teach in such away."

I agree. What a horrible thing to do

Tempting...but no.
We do not know circumstances.

Its worrying that you embarrass the children you teach in such away.

Agreed.

I would think you were covering your own tracks if you made such a song and dance about it...

Can you fart back in retaliation? Just don't push too hard...

As someone with a new stoma I would be mortified. I'm still struggling to get used to it and this sort of post makes me not want to leave the house.

Please don’t. I know three people with stoma bags, two adults who had cancer and a young child who has a disability and this would be a horrible, insensitive thing to do to them. They can’t help the odd smell escaping and all three are very self conscious about it.

Should I do what I do in my classroom and ask very loudly if someone needs to go to the toilet!

Do you really do this in your classroom? Embarrassing children like that really unkind. Some people cannot help it

Why would you embarrass someone about an unavoidable human function. Yes, I've learnt from MN that the rest of you can control it - I can't.

Please don’t. As PPs have mentioned, some people really can’t help it and are embarrassed enough.

Also, Miss Manners (or is it Emily Post? One of the old-school etiquette mavens, anyway) states that the correct way to behave when someone has obviously passed wind is to simply carry on as if it hasn’t happened. Just ignore it entirely. When kids in my class moan about someone’s lingering fart smell, I tell them it’s bad manners to draw attention to it and to get on with their work.

Farts are part of life. Especially on public transport.

You do that in your classroom?

I wouldn’t want you anywhere near my child TBH. How humiliating!