Excuse me?!
Okay, okay, okay, I have a story. Â If you don’t want to hear about my bathroom farting incident, move along. Â Just saying.
What, you are all still here? Â Well, I know everyone loves to laugh at someone else’s expense, so here we go. Â We stop at Target to make a bathroom/Starbucks pitstop. Â Nikki and Sarah go into the washroom first and I come in after they’ve finished up their bidness and are in the hand washing process. Â I move along to the furthest stall cause I know it’s gonna be a gooder and somehow it just feels safer to go to the last stall even though the accoustics are such that it makes no difference whatsoever. Â
So I’m in there, you know…sitting on the toilet, when suddenly I, um…toot. Â Okay so I let ‘er rip. Â I’m not embarrassed because, let’s face it people, we all fart. Â And when you’ve been in a vehicle with other people for however long and have been holding it in, it makes no difference who hears it. Â It’s just plain goodness. Â
Now some people may have coughed or shuffled feet or banged the toilet paper dispenser at this point, in an effort to cover up the bum expletive, but not I. Â The two morons at the sink started giggling and Nikki says, “Excuse you!!” (snicker, snicker). Â I wasn’t paying attention as I was obviously busy, so I tentatively said, “What?” and she repeated, “Excuse YOU!” Â Oh, me? Â ”Oh yeah right, excuse me.” and the laughing continued.
As an aside…is it proper public bathroom ettiquette to excuse yourself after farting? Â I always feel like I should, but you know, it’s kind of uncharted territory.Â
They calmed down and all of a sudden they were having a fit of laughter again and I didn’t have a clue what that was all about. Â They left and I came out of the bathroom and they were looking at me and still howling. Â I asked if they were still laughing at my flatulence. Â
APPARENTLY, after our little exchange, they noticed that there was someone else in the bathroom stalls and Nikki was freaking out because she was hoping it was me that had farted and not the other person. Â Inside sources tell me that Nikki was reportedly praying “Please let that be Erin’s fart…” Â
So then when I came upon them outside freaking out, they told me that the lady who came out of the bathroom was an older lady and she was kind of hobbling like she had just had the best poo of her life and they were still unsure whether or not it had actually been me or her. Â Not to worry, I told them, it was me and they could continue laughing at my expense. Â I wasn’t sorry in the least! Â :DÂ
LOL~!!!!!!!! i think i just peed my pants!!! hahaha that was so funny! i’m trying to explain it to ian and thinks i’m such a dork, but i’m like no seriously it was so funny!!
Comment by Nikki — April 8, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
BAHAHA! I had such a hard time reading that because I had TEARS in my eyes. Erin, it’s TOTALLY your fault! I mean, who lets an obvious toilet fart go in public, WITH two of your friends there to experience it and doesn’t SAY anything? You know us better than that…As if NIKKI and SARAH would not acknowledge gas?! WHO does that? I mean, that’s like ignoring the fact that a Custom’s Officer called us “Bud”!
Comment by Sarah — April 8, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
You think I LET it go??? OHHHH No, it was coming out all on its own. There was no stopping that bad boy. Okay, bud??
Comment by erin — April 8, 2009 @ 11:27 pm
Thanks for the laugh this morning! You are too funny.
Comment by Jenn — April 9, 2009 @ 8:06 am
Oh Erin, that is TOO FUNNY! We’ve all been there…and I still don’t know what the proper etiquette (sp?) is! I think one should not have to excuse themself in a bathroom:)
Comment by Becky — April 9, 2009 @ 8:08 am
loving this!!!
i almost missed the fact that you called it a “bum expletive”. a perfect description!
Comment by Jen — April 9, 2009 @ 11:48 am
Worse is when someone farts in your surroundings and you’ve no place to go… ie. church, waiting in line….ewwww!!!!
Comment by Carol VR — April 12, 2009 @ 9:42 am
Stinky girl! hahaha…
Too funny!
Comment by Summer — April 13, 2009 @ 11:18 am