Thinking
06-11-2010, 02:19 PM
I was sitting in a pew in clinic….
The clinic waiting room was cavernous with high ceilings.
And numerous patients sat with their files and documents…idly watching each other faces.
As we all waited for our turn…it was a bit silent…save for the sound of hushed voices and the clicking of key…some were busy with their mobiles.
Then suddenly my stomach emitted a growl...hmmm...(I am sorry but its not a lady-like post)
Now normally…a stomach growl in a huge cavernous room is only a bit embarrassing.
"Wow someone is hungry" is the first thought a person will have upon hearing a stomach growl.
Except this single growl wasn't a normal typical growl.
It was a low…deep…guttural growl.
In other words…it sounded like a fart.
The growl echoed throughout the room for probably about ten seconds straight.
People shifted uncomfortably in their seats and the woman next to me avoided eye contact with me.
It was pretty bad. I had actually felt the wooden pew vibrate as my stomach un-forgivingly made its fart like growl...hmmm
At that moment…I flipped open my phone…hoping I could pass it off as my cell phone ringing in vibrate mode.
hmm...Maybe they'll buy it..., I thought to myself.
hmmm....Maybe not..., as I saw from the corner of my eyes a young woman in the next row…peering at me over her shoulder.
And so I did what any other person in the wake of a recently emitted fart...growl and/or fart-growl would do.
Pretend that it didn't happen.
Remain composed.
And look around innocently as if to proclaim to the world:
"It wasn't me."
hmmm... ;)
The clinic waiting room was cavernous with high ceilings.
And numerous patients sat with their files and documents…idly watching each other faces.
As we all waited for our turn…it was a bit silent…save for the sound of hushed voices and the clicking of key…some were busy with their mobiles.
Then suddenly my stomach emitted a growl...hmmm...(I am sorry but its not a lady-like post)
Now normally…a stomach growl in a huge cavernous room is only a bit embarrassing.
"Wow someone is hungry" is the first thought a person will have upon hearing a stomach growl.
Except this single growl wasn't a normal typical growl.
It was a low…deep…guttural growl.
In other words…it sounded like a fart.
The growl echoed throughout the room for probably about ten seconds straight.
People shifted uncomfortably in their seats and the woman next to me avoided eye contact with me.
It was pretty bad. I had actually felt the wooden pew vibrate as my stomach un-forgivingly made its fart like growl...hmmm
At that moment…I flipped open my phone…hoping I could pass it off as my cell phone ringing in vibrate mode.
hmm...Maybe they'll buy it..., I thought to myself.
hmmm....Maybe not..., as I saw from the corner of my eyes a young woman in the next row…peering at me over her shoulder.
And so I did what any other person in the wake of a recently emitted fart...growl and/or fart-growl would do.
Pretend that it didn't happen.
Remain composed.
And look around innocently as if to proclaim to the world:
"It wasn't me."
hmmm... ;)