Passenger drops farts so putrid pilot is forced to make emergency landing

[Ms. Toad]

19. It's not a joke.

My daughter has one of these conditions. In the early years of her condition, she changed almost overnight from a child who never even noticed when we left - and cried when we came back - to pick her up from preschool or the babysitter, to a clingy child who wouldn't let me out of her sight because she couldn't trust anyone else to find her a bathroom before she literally couldn't hold it in. She lived like this for a year - and was heading to kindergarten in diapers because that is the only way she could stand being out of arm's reach from me.

As an adult, she has now been living for 24 years with the potential that she might offend someone, or become the butt of a joke because if she is out of remission - she can't control her bowels. Fortunately, she is in remission most of the time.

And, if that's not bad enough, she lives with the reality that both cancer and a liver transplant are almost certainly in her future.

So you can take the thumb and forefinger you almost certainly have and pinch your nostrils together. It won't do you any serious harm - and although the scent can be unpleasant, I've never known anyone to barf at the scent of a fart. On the other hand - my daughter - and others like her don't have any options.