Farting @ Work Redoo

topic posted Thu, April 24, 2008 - 10:28 AM by  Brian
Twice a day the janitor comes into my office to clean out my trash, then takes a couple minutes extra to talk sports with me.

That's fine.

But one out of every three visits or so he'll fart. Mostly the silent but deadly variety. This has been going on since January.

I want to say something to him, like, "Fucking hell, man, don't do that shit in my office!"

But the guy is old enough to be my grandfather.
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Brian
New Orleans
  • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

    Fri, April 25, 2008 - 3:49 AM
    And step to it, it's playoffs time. I mean, what are we talking about here? Practice? No it's playoffs!

    Listen for the (* light background piano *)

    This is where trash talking happens....
  • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

    Sat, April 26, 2008 - 2:12 PM
    One good fart deserves another...go fart in his office or at least punch him in the face and kick him in the dick
    • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

      Sun, April 27, 2008 - 10:44 AM
      Write a sternly worded e-mail, in the process of which you re-experience the trauma. Have a couple of drinks after work while stewing over it. Lose your keys. Let Mr. Stanley buy you rounds and rounds of cartoon sorority girl drinks 'til the plot of the Dukes of Hazard episode on the bar TV seems convoluted. Dribble on some redneck's leg in the piss-stall. Hit someone. Make it count. Deck that guy counting out nickels at the Plaid Pantry. Take a swing at your arresting officer. Anyone but the guy you're actually mad at.
      • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

        Mon, April 28, 2008 - 9:30 AM
        Eris: you summed up my weekend....strange.
        • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

          Tue, April 29, 2008 - 7:45 PM
          cue up the theme to I Dream of Jeanie and play it everytime he farts.

          mood music is everything.

          or, howabout some moody blues?

          Breathe deep the gathering gloom
          Watch lights fade from every room
          Bedsetter people look back and lament
          Another day's useless energy's spent
          Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
          Lonely man cries for love and has none
          New mother picks up and suckles her son
          Senior citizens wish they were young
          Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
          Removes the colors from our sight
          Red is grey and yellow white,
          But we decide which is right,
          And which is an illusion.
          • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

            Tue, April 29, 2008 - 10:11 PM
            Breathe deep the gathering gloom
            -------------------------------------------------
            i saw this graffito'd in a bathroom stall once, somewhere in AZ i think. it's not often that bathroom stall grffiti really makes me laugh, but that one did it.
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            Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

            Thu, May 1, 2008 - 1:01 PM
            I have never seen the words to "Tuesday Afternoon" written on a bathroom stall before.

            As for the old janitor's farts, there is nothing that can be done.
            • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

              Thu, May 1, 2008 - 1:31 PM
              Shall I just impale myself with shards from broken florescent lights while whistling the tune “The Girl from Ipanema” then?
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                Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

                Thu, May 1, 2008 - 4:24 PM
                Farting elderly janitors are a form of karma.

                you must have done something awful.
                • JM
                  JM
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                  Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

                  Fri, May 2, 2008 - 3:13 AM
                  Tsk, tsk. Accentuate the positive!
                  In Egypt, black cats are considered good luck.
                  In France, when a pigeon shits on you, you get a free wish.
                  You must have done something really good. Enjoy your karma. Invite him for dinner.
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                    Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

                    Fri, May 2, 2008 - 7:50 AM
                    >In France, when a pigeon shits on you, you get a free wish<

                    I saw a guy get hit with a pigeon egg in SF. What does he get?
                    • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

                      Fri, May 2, 2008 - 3:18 PM
                      A tattoo.
                      • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

                        Fri, May 2, 2008 - 3:20 PM
                        The weird thing was, he totally didn't notice. I had to tell him.
                        • Re: Farting @ Work Redoo

                          Sat, May 3, 2008 - 1:34 AM
                          I think you should totally understand that this is a natural bodily function, and try to desensitize people to this normal, everyday, misjudged "butt puff." Confront him in a loud voice, in FRONT of co-workers. Question aloud, " YOU JUST FARTED, DIDN"T YOU?" "I KNOW YOU DID IT STINKS IN HEAR LIKE INDIA AFTER A COUNTRYWIDE BUFFET!" Everyone will benefit from just bringing it into the light.

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