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To have not found the fart funny?

141 replies

YellowRollNeck · 08/12/2021 12:43

I went bowling on Saturday with my mum, kids and sister. I was taking a sip of my drink when I suddenly got a whiff of the most horrendous smell - like rotting meat mixed with rotten eggs and shit. I balked and said something like “Jesus what is that smell?”. The kids smelt it and started gagging. My mum was the same. My sister was in stitches with tears streaming down her face. I asked what was funny, she said she thought the smell was coming from the group of blokes next to us. It then came on again even stronger. I was so close to being sick (on antibiotics so stomach dodgy anyway). My mum suggested it smelt like bad drains. I agreed and said I’d have to go and mention it to the staff. My sister watched me go. When I returned with a member of staff my sister was creased up laughing. The area smelt absolutely horrendous. Staff member said he’d go and mention it to the manager.

Long story short, turns out it was my sister farting. She’s on constipation medication hence the foulness of the stench. My family are now retelling the story over and over again and all find it hilarious that I actually spoke to staff. I’m struggling to see the funny side. I think it was fucking disgusting and they made me look stupid getting them staff involved. I’m now being told to “lighten up, it’s Christmas!”

AIBU to not see how this is so amusing to them??

OP posts:
Cherrytart23 · 08/12/2021 14:21

Sister was laughing and blamed another group. How did you not realise it was her do you take everything so serious? Her laughing and blaming others is the biggest give away.

CloudyStorms · 08/12/2021 14:22

[quote ClaudiaJ1]**@CloudyStorms* You can't hurt yourself with a fart*
You're missing the point. The OP thought it was a drain, not a fart. So she did the right thing in telling a member of staff.[/quote]
You can't hurt yourself on a blocked drain snell either. Unless OP went to the loo and it reeked it there.

Icebreaker99 · 08/12/2021 14:25

She's gross for trying to blame others, it's one thing to pass it off on the dog but not another human being.

Sparklfairy · 08/12/2021 14:30

People handle embarrassment in different ways. If this happened to me the only way to beat the shame and get ahead of it and any comments is to laugh and keep repeating it, totally own it.

It went too far with OP finding a staff member about the drains but again, I can see that happening to me too, laughing so hard and not stopping OP in time, running with it or whatever.

If that's weird, flame me Wink

ClaudiaJ1 · 08/12/2021 14:33

@CloudyStorms If the drain is backed up and leaking it's biological hazard.

ClaudiaJ1 · 08/12/2021 14:33

*or leaking

MancMum2000 · 08/12/2021 14:35

I think you need to unclench a bit OP (but maybe not to quite the extent your sister did).

2catsandhappy · 08/12/2021 14:35

Gross and childish of the sister.
You haven't invited her to Christmas dinner have you @YellowRollNeck ?

EnidFrighten · 08/12/2021 14:36

Did the member of staff have to get their poopervisor

CoffeeRunner · 08/12/2021 14:37

Your sister was incredibly immature but so were you to be so disgusted at a natural bodily function.

Your sister didn't tell you it was the drains - she led you to believe it came from a group of men nearby.

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 08/12/2021 14:37

@MancMum2000

I think you need to unclench a bit OP (but maybe not to quite the extent your sister did).
Grin
purplecorkheart · 08/12/2021 14:38

Sounds likes you have a incredibly childish sister.

Platax · 08/12/2021 14:39

Most people get over the exquisite humour of farts by the age of 10 at the latest. Your sister seriously needs to grow up.

oakleaffy · 08/12/2021 14:39

@YellowRollNeck
I remember once a bloke having such atrocious wind in a shop that I had to leave.
Your sister sounds like a pig to know that her farts stench and should have walked to the loo or outside.
Some people have no shame about stinking places out.
That’s feces you are smelling. From her rectum.
Wind alone has no smell.

CoffeeRunner · 08/12/2021 14:40

@FestiveFruitloop

YANBU, that's disgusting. She should have gone to the toilet if she needed to do that.
I have Crohn's. I'd love to get that much warning!
oakleaffy · 08/12/2021 14:43

At an exhibition at Imperial War Museum, there was a smell like bad drains- it was nauseating.
However, it was artificially created to go with the exhibition- WW1 Trenches.
When I realised, it was much more bearable, but still unpleasant.

AdrienneNiR · 08/12/2021 14:44

I'm chilled about most things and laugh at inappropriate things but I would have felt sick. I've become really smell sensitive. I can't help it and I'm definitely not pregnant.

Sparklfairy · 08/12/2021 14:44

That’s feces you are smelling. From her rectum

Oh my fucking god the drama. Id suggest some of you lot should remove the stick from your arses, but I won't for obvious reasons.

StepAwayFromGoogling · 08/12/2021 14:49

How long have you been sisters?! If there was a horrific smell and one of my siblings was doubled over with laughter then I'd know exactly what had happened. Come on, OP, it's funny - you called the staff over to smell your sister's fart.

ClaudiaJ1 · 08/12/2021 14:54

@StepAwayFromGoogling

How long have you been sisters?! If there was a horrific smell and one of my siblings was doubled over with laughter then I'd know exactly what had happened. Come on, OP, it's funny - you called the staff over to smell your sister's fart.
Come on, OP, it's funny - you called the staff over to smell your sister's fart. Damn, lol I did actually burst at laughing at that.
sweeneytoddsrazor · 08/12/2021 14:56

Blocked drains smell continually because they are not going anywhere. Fart smells come and go because they dissipate. If someone is doubled over laughing every time the smell appears then it is fairly reasonable to assume they are responsible.

As to the mum saying it smells like drains, yep people do comment that sometimes along with othersuch comments like has something crawled up your arse and died?

LaBellaTrix · 08/12/2021 14:58

She was probably terribly embarrassed and I just hope her constipation medication didn't cause her to follow through.

xILikeJamx · 08/12/2021 15:03

You actually went to get a staff member because you thought the people next to you were farting.

Just let that sink in

ThanksMateThanksMate · 08/12/2021 15:04

Right ... surely we know by now that people fall into one of two categories and it's probably scientifically provable...
Those who think it's manky
Those who think it's the hilarious

I always find farting funny as f@ck - even when I'm gagging or embarrassed. It's like an involuntary reaction and sometimes I wish I could change it. I'm not infantile in the slightest about other things in life so I don't put it down to that.

My children, now all over 16 are still embarrassed at the time I farted in B&Q and when we later passed the same Envylocation, a member of staff was spraying air freshener.

I AM GIGGLING TYPING THIS!!!
(I am not your sister but I think we'd be good pals)

Nothinbut · 08/12/2021 15:06

I'd say I wouldn't laugh but here I am chortling away.

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