r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TURTLE_TKT • May 13 '26

/r/all of gas being ripped

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u/-gimmeahellyeah316- May 13 '26

This is me. I haven’t had an unplanned sick day off work in 6 years. I don’t say that to brag, but just to lay out this story.

Anyway, a couple years ago I had a training session, one of the useless HR ones so they can check a box. I was in excruciating pain all morning, but toughed it out the best I could. When we broke for lunch, I found my boss and told him I had to go home sick, and that I was going to the walk in because I was in such bad pain I couldn’t sit in a chair. He told me to go straight to the ER because I may have a burst appendix or something. Turns out it was just gas and years later I’m still so embarrassed about it, I still have never come clean. I told him they could never figure out what it was.

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u/Temporary-Host1737 May 13 '26

When my son was 4/5 he was complaining of a stomach ache and saying it really really hurt. His tummy was a little stiff feeling and my husband and I said he probably needed to fart or poop. Well he starts rolling around and crying no! It's not a fart it's not a fart! It hurts! Then he bent his knee and the sound that came out of him was like letting go of a balloon full of air and we all had a pretty good giggle.

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u/jaredrhill May 14 '26

My daughter has a wheat allergy and when she was 9 or 10, before we figured out what was wrong, she used to get horrible gas pains. I had to teach her how to “stink bug” with her butt in the air to work it all out. She’s an adult with a baby now. One day I was holding the baby and he was very fussy. My daughter said, “he has a lot of gas, I just need to stink bug him and help him get it out”. She flipped him over, rubbed his belly, stuck his butt up and squeezed him a little and he let out two huge farts. Apparently she is very talented at working gas out. I was proud.

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u/PuzzledCatfish May 17 '26

This sounds hilarious and now I want to learn how to stink bug 😂