Tomorrow will be the shoe review that I’ve been promising. I’ve also finally made a video of curling my hair with a straightener that so many people ask for. Now, I have to admit something to you. It’s rather embarrassing, but hey, it’s life.
So a while back, a friend and I were chatting about random things and, I seriously don’t know how this came up, but we started talking about tooting or farting or passing gas, whatever name you may have for it, while running. You know, letting one go. I told her, “Yea every now and then sometimes I just toot! It is surprising.” She said, “You know what, Me too!” We were both laughing and I said, “If I have to really bad, I’ll just look around and make sure that no one is nearby when I’m running.” It’s bad but it happens.
Sometimes when I run, and I have to, ahem, toot, I think to myself that it’s like a little jet explosion propelling me forward! Like I’m playing Mario Kart on Wii and I just ran over something that made me speed up!
Then, she said the words that were music to my ears. ME TOO.
WHAT?! Another person who is propelled by toots every now and then? I know why we are best friends! How hilarious is that. Do you guys ever toot on the run and are taken back by surprise? Do you look around before you do it and see if anyone can hear you? Have you ever tooted at the gym? I think it’s just hilarious.
Are you jet propelled?
xoxo
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I’m gonna get a tattoo on my calf that says “Powered by farts” so that people can see it when I run. HAHAHAHAHA!
Foulmates!
By Marathon Maritza on 07.19.10 8:58 am
Haha great post! I thought I was the only one who had to toot while running…glad that others think it’s as funny as I do!
By Leigh on 07.19.10 9:17 am
You crack me up!
By christina cadden on 07.19.10 10:13 am
So funny! I hike a lot with my mom (who has a tooting problem), and whenever it happens she says, “gosh, those ducks!” Even after hearing it 100+ times, I still think it’s funny :)
By Jen on 07.19.10 10:30 am
Hahaha, can’t believe you went THERE! Hey it smells but it happens!
By Madison on 07.19.10 11:33 am
3 things in life that will ALWAYS be funny to me:
1) Farts in public.
2) Adam Sandler movies
3) Monkeys in people clothes
By Tim on 07.19.10 11:35 am
I assume you are asking the lady readers because ALL of us guys do it. Nothing is funnier than a girl “tooting” in the gym.
By Dwayne on 07.19.10 11:48 am
Totally gas powered!!!
By Abby on 07.19.10 12:22 pm
If possible, I keep them in until a pack of cyclists approaches. Don’t understand why some cyclists think they own the entire running path when there is a perfectly good bike lane 10 feet away. :)
By daddyrun on 07.19.10 1:27 pm
If I feel it coming on, I usually do the look around. But I just let loose most of the time!
By Jessica on 07.19.10 2:53 pm
My favorite name for run-farting:
Crop dusting.
By Jamie on 07.19.10 6:00 pm
Do guys drop gas bombs on the run? Duh. And very necessary too. As they say, a farting horse never tires…
By Bert on 07.19.10 6:00 pm
BAHAHAHAHA! i have to admit every once in a while a toot slips… LOL…
By Nicole on 07.19.10 6:04 pm
OMG, you just made me laugh so hard!
OK, I may have tooted on the rare occasion (making sure there was no one nearby first, of course) but I NEVER thought of it as a jet propulsion thing! Well, I TOTALLY am NOW!
SO hilarious… sorry for the “all caps” :P
By Audrey on 07.20.10 12:29 am
You are hysterical! And you’re obviously not alone!
By Emily on 07.20.10 6:21 am
Of course… but the funniest are the unintentional kind. For example, I was stuck behind a wall of people, casually walking along the boardwalk. I tried to run to the right… blocked. To the left… blocked. Then, I finally saw an opening between a lady with a stroller and her companion, and made my move.
TOOT!
Ran a little faster.
By Jason on 07.20.10 10:34 am
There are lots of “barking spiders” on my trail! Darn those things!!!! =)
By Carolina Girl on 07.20.10 10:57 am
I think my worst moment was on the stairmaster at the gym… the stretching mats are right behind them, and I totally had to let one loose :( It was AWFUL! Thank goodness I’ve never had to let one go in the sauna! OMG that’d be the worst ever!
By Janeen on 07.20.10 12:07 pm
HA hilarious! Yeah we also like to call it crop dusting when you toot around someone then either run off or away. My hubby also enjoys doing that at the store! He will come up laughing and say he totally just crop dusted. HA
By Brandi on 07.20.10 1:03 pm
I have heard some people let out some serious farts during races and it cracks me up everytime and it makes me run faster to get away from them! haha I seriosuly look around if I must let one rip while on the trail. I don’t want to be know as the “toot and run” girl! haha
By Tara on 07.20.10 3:26 pm
In college, my one teammate referred to tooting on the run as her ‘rocket-boosters’! HAHAHA!!!! We all were convinced it made us faster. :)
By Molly on 07.20.10 5:20 pm
hahaah! i am so jet propelled! i love black beans and have them just about every day. end of story!
By Kate Tate on 07.21.10 5:26 pm
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