It’s a Bathroom – Not a Fartroom

A lovely reader writes the following:

It’s been a running joke between myself and friends of mine when it comes to people who are standing near you at a urinal and feel it’s perfectly fine to fart because they’re in the bathroom. My feeling on this is that if you need to fart, take it to a stall where there’s a partitioning wall between you and the fumes coming out of your ass. I think you should chime in on this and have it as a special topic on your site.

Generally speaking, I agree. While farting in the bathroom is certainly a better option than farting in the office, if it’s going to be a stinky one you should do all you can to contain it. And if it’s that stinky, why aren’t you in the stall having a poop anyways? You’re having stinky farts for a reason after all.

The thing that really gets me though is the people who fart as loudly as they possibly can just because they are in a public bathroom. We have a word for these people – that word is douchebags. Farting more loudly than is absolutely necessary does nothing but indicate you are an idiot.

Now all that said, sometimes it’s hard not to let a little fart slip out at the urinal. All your business is connected down there, and the same techniques used to relax and go pee can lead to a little inadvertent gas escape. So don’t be too quick to judge the guy farting at the urinal – it might have just slipped out.