DH over reacting about public fart

[OnePearlTraybake]

I don’t normally break wind and have very good manners. However, I experienced an unexpected fart whilst out shopping with my husband and son earlier. We were leaving the shop and approaching the car and I broke wind really loudly in the car park. I really didn’t mean to but it was incredibly loud and unfortunately a man happened to be walking right by me whilst returning his trolley and another couple in a nearby car turned as they were loading their shopping in the boot.

I quickly got into the car and stifled my laughter but as DH and son got in they looked very unimpressed. This was several hours ago and it’s still being brought up in conversation. I feel he has completely over reacted by being this shocked and disgusted.

surely it’s not that big a deal?

I'm 57. Farts are hilarious. 🤣🤣

If I were the passers by I would of laughed too.

Reminds me of a story my friend told. Her son had just started Reception and they had a daily story time towards the end of the day. He said to my friend when he got home "When we had story time today, we all sat in a circle and Billy (made up name) accidentally farted! And guess what? NOBODY LAUGHED!!" Apparently he was incredulous that it wasn't funny.

In the words of my own nephew - there's nowt funnier than a fart! My FIL would disagree though, which is highly amusing as he is deaf and doesn't realise we can all hear his farts when he does them! 😂

Farts are and will always be funny and anyone who says otherwise should be ignored

I used to think that. How can you accidentally fart? I always knew when one was coming so could control it.

Now I'm older, I can honestly say yes, it is actually possible, especially if you're doing something like lifting shopping in to a car.

I bent down to hang some washing on my airer the other day and one popped out unexpectedly! DH stood up from the sofa last night and a rather loud one burst out unplanned and it was so loud it woke the cat up!

So if you haven't yet had an unexpected fart, just wait - your time will come!

It isn't as if you lifted your leg and forced it out? Does he never fart? Is he usually this uptight? What does he want to to do? Un-fart your fart?

And farts are undeniably funny. The man going past and that couple probably found it amusing. 💨

Let me put it this way, of someone made a big deal and got their farty arsey in their hands over me farty arsing, you can be guaranteed that every fart that followed, I would adopt the 'hold and push' technique to attempt to maximise odour, audio.....

and targeting....

"Ass ripper fist gripper incoming in 3...2....1..."

I might even make a point of adding extra Sprouts and cabbage to my diet to increase the textures of my gaseous expulsions..

I was brought up with the expression “where ever you may be, let your wind blow free”.
and yes, I was the girl up the back of the classroom with the boys having farting competitions 😂

Really surprised by the laughter on this thread. To me it sounds like a nasty man humiliating his wife. Farts can be funny (not my humour but to lots of people)- repeatedly bringing up something completely accidental is spiteful and nasty.

He needs to lighten up! It's not like you shouted "name that tune!" or asked a stranger to pull your finger.

@AddictedToBooks I call the accidental sneeze-fart "taking a screenshot" 😂

We are all human, and no matter what anyone says, we all break wind!
DH and DS need to lighten up and get over it!
They sound like a barrel of laughs...

I would have been teased mercilessly (and absolutely mortified) but unless it was a gross bad mannered habit (which it doesn’t appear to be) they need to get a sense of humour. My son would have roasted me for a long time while killing himself with laughter.

Hm. This would likely happen to my 74 yo husband, not me, but I wouldn't make him feel bad for it. (There is a considerable age difference between us).
And as PPs said, everyone farts.
And as my friend from another country says about farting at home, well, "you not gonna run out of the house with every ghost you want to let out".
Bigger problems in the world.

😂😂😂

hilarious!

but if this is actually real then he needs to go! 🤣

I couldn’t waste my life with someone with double standards such as “women can’t fart”

Yes, I had the misfortune to have brought forth an unexpected fart 💨 in a job I’d just started (junior level) working for a very senior guy at one of the big 4 accountancy firms in the London office.

He had some files on the floor in his office (very disorganised person despite earning a million a year!) and I bent down to pick some up. Well you can imagine. It was so loud and despite normally not having smelly farts at all (honestly, so in that split second, I thought I could style it out by knocking the bin), the stench descended while I was internally screaming No, No! and completely stank his office out.

We both did the very British thing of ignoring it and I quickly made my excuses and left but I’d noticed a bit of a curl to his lips and a flaring of nostrils so it was definitely as bad as I thought.

Luckily it was near the end of the day and I didn’t see him for the rest of it but I was so absolutely mortified and knew I’d forever be associated with that stench to him, that I rang in sick the next day and never went back! Lost a great career job for an escaped fart!

That was when I was much younger though, probably would just apologise and offer to open a window now. DC think it was hilarious. Sadly DH is an uptight idiot like the OPs.

My husband and I don't fart around each other. It's just not something we find pleasant.

But occasionally it happens accidentally and I can't imagine either of us shaming the other about it or going on about it. And we'd both find it quite funny in the situation you describe, despite generally not liking farts.

Well I don’t fart as such but I’d be horrified if my husband did that in earshot of others (stoma bag)

I'm laughing after reading. I love toilet humour 😂

Same here.

I can't help thinking that maybe OP's fart give her DH the ick, that's why he responded so vehemently.

He must have heard his wife fart before??

Well it's probably not that big a deal that you accidentally farted in front of a stranger.

Did you not say excuse me?

🤣

I was in Poundland once when a woman let one go as she bent down. She was with her mum who looked less than impressed. Her daughter said "that wasn’t even my fault, it just fell out!"
I was creasing up. Any time I’m feeling down I remember that one and laugh!!!

Me too