Coming home from a dinner at a restaurant Saturday night - a real treat now that they have reopened indoor dining here- my bride ripped off a whopper of a fart in the truck. A real 4-window down alarm!
I asked her if she was alright and she said, "Yes, just a bit too much wine." In reply I said, "If I did that in the car when I was growing up, that would have earned me a soapsuds enema when we got home!"
My bride does not talk much about enemas, and has rarely acknowledged receiving them growing up, but maybe the wine loosened her up a bit. She said, "Oh yeah, if I passed gas when my mother was nearby, she would ask if I was feeling alright, and then suggest a little enema might make me feel better." She continued, "Soon enough I was in the bathroom kneeling in the tub with a hose in my behind."
I said, "I thought you only had a couple of enemas growing up. Sounds like your mother was more like my mother when it came to enemas."
She said she learned the lesson early to hold her gas in until she could use the toilet, a habit she practices to this day. "I hated getting enemas. My mother always gave too much and made me hold it until she thought it was in long enough. It was so humiliating since my father and little brother knew what was happening." Nowadays, she rarely passes gas unless she is really in distress, and certainly never in public. Gas-X is her regular friend.
I saw a possible opening from this rare conversation and I asked her if she might need an enema when she got home and was told, "Not on your life buddy-boy." She is still no fan of an enema!