Working in a gym, especially as a trainer, sometimes we experience some rather embarrassing bodily functions. I once was working with a gal and she was doing sit ups. With each one, EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. she would fart as she came up. I ignored it for the first couple, even though I was dying inside laughing. After a few more sit ups, I suggested maybe she had done enough. The gal agreed. That was it. No further discussion. But oh what a good story I've had for years to come.
Another time, I was working with an older gentleman that was new to the club. I was leading him to the other side of the weight room to the free weights and said "okay, now we are going to use the dumbbells."
He stopped dead in his tracks and asked "what did you just call me?"
"Uhhh, well that's just what these free weights are called, dumbbells."
He laughed and told me he was only kidding. Arg! I didn't know what to say, but it was pretty funny and he got me on that one!
Okay, back to the bodily functions. There is just something about working out that brings out the gas. I don't care how old you are, it is STILL funny when it happens unexpectedly and at the most embarrassing times. I have a 70 year old gal that I've worked with for just over 3 years. She is my hero. When I started training her, she could not get up off the floor without crawling to a piece of equipment to help her get up. She struggled to climb stairs. Now she has done a 40 mile bike ride, completed 4 mini triathlons, and done numerous 5k races. Again, let me just say, she is my hero.
One day, she was doing her workout, and low and behold, she accidentally farted. She exclaimed "Oops! Excuse me!" And then we both giggled like little girls for the rest of her workout.
There are other times that it happens, and I just pretend to ignore it, even though I am laughing on the inside and praying it doesn't stink. I'm sure the client is praying it doesn't stink as well, while they are ignoring the fact that they just tooted and hoping I didn't hear it.
When I saw this e-card on Facebook this morning, I knew I had to share it. I hope that you get a giggle out of it like I did. Come on. Admit it. There have been times you've done something and thought this very thing! Don't fart, don't fart.......just don't fart!
I once had to fart during a cycle monitoring ultrasound. I had to try to clench my butt while at the same time not clenching my vagina so that the u/s tech could do her job. I made it through, but it was touch and go there for a while. Thanks for the laugh!
ReplyDeleteLiterally laughing out loud! I love it. Thanks for sharing. I'm not afraid to admit that after reading this, I tried to "clench my butt while at the same time not clenching my vagina." Not very easy! How mortifying would that have been to rip one during a monitoring appointment! Bahahaha!
DeleteI work with a little kid and any time I give him a big hug and squeeze he farts. I can always count on squeezing a fart out of him. I tend to forget though and give him big hugs because he's so cute.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome! lol
DeleteLove it! Thank you for the giggle!
ReplyDeleteFarts are almost always funny. Non-funny farts = elevator farts, shower farts, and super smelly "drive by" farts (when someone farts and keeps on walking). I had to fart really nasty one time in the middle of Walmart. I hurried into an empty aisle and let loose. Unfortunately, it was a toy aisle and a mother an little boy rounded the corner just as I farted. It was ungodly - so much so that the woman took a whiff and then flew off the handle at her little boy. "Did you sh*t your pants?! I told you to ask to go potty!!!" she screamed at him and then yanked him out of the aisle (presumably to go to the bathroom.)
ReplyDeleteHaha! Classic!
DeleteFor the record, those "drive by" farts are also known in my neck of the woods as "crop dusting".
DeleteI used to share an office with a guy that had the SMELLIEST farts. It was because of a medication he was on. We laughed about it all the time, but once he let an especially bad one go and right as someone was coming into our office he decided to leave so the other person would think I was the one stinking up the office. We don't work together anymore but we are still friends and I still give him a hard time about that.
ReplyDelete"Clenching my butt but not my vagina" sounds like me during sex when newly married! Luckily that changes over the years!
ReplyDeleteHere's to no smelly farts!!!! That is where I had to bust out laughing!!!! It's starting to amaze me how little we really get to visit but how much of all of these blogs I have been blessed to have already had them shared with me. I have learned things but whether you have shared these already or I just maybe know your heart enough to not feel like a stranger is unfolding before me, I am so glad to know that my first and favorite niece is not a stranger to me! I love you so very much!!!
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