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Shakespear's Forest Orator's avatar

If an old man makes performance art out of his farts and no one is around, does it still smell???

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Alan DeBoom's avatar

Vaseline on the telephone earpiece?

New floor runners being sent to look for a box of upticks?

We had a guy who wouldn't chew his food to help produce his pit clearing farts.

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Charlie Ledezma's avatar

OMG, waking up to read this...poor wife, yours and mine!

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Ron P.'s avatar

Jared, perhaps your best piece yet.

In return, I'll relate my legendary fart story for you & your audience.

Five years ago I was in Rome with my eldest son (then 13yo) & my nephew (then 25yo).

I was 50 yo at the time.

This is to illustrate to you, Jared, that I was about as mature as you at a similar age, and if you are anything like me, you'll be just as immature at age 55.

Now back to the story.

We were in a taxi returning to the hotel when I had the urge to let one rip.

I was in the front seat, next to the driver, Giancarlo.

It was May & it was quite a warm day. The windows were up & the AC running.

I felt my stomach churning and knew that what was brewing was pretty lethal.

I tried to supress the fart but my sphincter just wouldn't permit it.

It was silent but extremely deadly.

As it wafted to my nostrils I did two things: tried to inhale as much of the stench as possible so as to save the others from my obviously internally rotting carcass; and prayed, (somewhat naively, that the funk wouldn't spread, with the help of the AC, to the rest of the taxi.

Both my inhalations & prayers were in vain.

This became patently clear when my nephew screamed from the back seat, "Who farted?"

Of course, I denied it; however my hysterical laughter gave me away, resulting in all-round laughter; even from poor Giancarlo.

I had tears running down my face - from the fetid smell, the situation, the embarrassment, or a combination of all three - to this day I still don't know.

Giancarlo was a great sport about it.

In his shoes, I would've ejected me from the taxi, but he had a great laugh too.

He didn't even lower the windows.

Who knows, perhaps he like the smell.

I doubt whether he knows that his resilience and equanimity have been rewarded with him receiving a special place in family lore with the expression, "I Giancarloed him," taking on particular significance when a similar episode repeats - similar but never the same.

Is the sequel ever better than the original?

Jared, keep up the great writing, belly laughs, and puerile humor.

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Burk Lowe's avatar

There are two standout episodes of The Office: the fire drill episode and the diversity training one. Both classics and worth your time....

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Liz's avatar

Bill Burr is hilarious too. He and Dave Chappelle are my current favorites. At Dirtcon some of the people were hilarious, definitely a funny group.

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Jason's avatar

I was laughing so hard at this, I may have farted, snorted, coughed, and spat at some point. We are of the same breed. March `74 couldn’t have been better.

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Eric Knight's avatar

Funny! I can relate to your military humor reference. I was on submarines where farts were an integral part of watch standing. Your only warning was “Fire in the hole”!

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Bruno Faro's avatar

Can’t stop laughing, thank you for this Friday night piece!

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Phil Bak's avatar

I watched jackass 2 on a date in the theater and laughed so hard my cheeks hurt afterwards. The girl I took was super uptight and offended and immediately broke up with me. Still a great night. Jackass is funny. Farts are funnier.

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