An Embarrassing Situation

At work, near my cubicle, someone makes a fart joke and a few people laugh. Then, the female supervisor who previously made the penis comment enthusiastically tells everyone, "Hold on!" She runs to her office and brings back something called a "Fart Detector," which looks like a household fire alarm. We all gather around (me standing near the outskirts of the small crowd). The supervisor activates it, and the detector screeches to life. A robotic male voice shouts, over the sound of a siren, "Attention! Someone in this vicinity has farted! Please evacuate the area!"

Everyone laughs and laughs, and I laugh some, but I'm not one to get carried away with fart humor. I feel there's nothing wrong with it and it certainly amuses me. But I've covered that territory so many times that it's just not as funny to me as it once was.

To be fair, I think some people relive the spirit of fart humor when in a new setting that&#