Man's behavior that drives a woman crazy (6)
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‘Why does a man have a disgusting habit?’ [Allan & Barbara Pease, "Why Men Lie & Why Women Cry"]
‘Among the men’s habits that women think that are disgusting are picking the nose, burping, the smell from the body, wearing the old underwear, scraping the groin and so on. But the most repulsive habit is farting’ (Pease). Probably there are no women who have never heard the man’s farting while growing up. I am sure at least they heard their father’s farts. And when they got married, I am sure they heard the sound of their husband's farts. Perhaps some of you are still listening to the sound of your husband's farts. What do you think of his farts?
I think I have almost all the disgusting habits that the women think. Of course I fart. My children think that I am a fart machine. Haha. And I often burp even when I eat. It may due to coke that I am drinking when I eat. So it’s difficult for me not to burp in front of my wife and the kids during the meals. Then the children used to say ‘Uhh …’ (yukky?). But now, I think they gave up. I think my youngest kid thought that I was okay to burp because I am a father. I also pick my nose. I remember telling my church members the reason why my pinky finger’s nail is long during Korean worship. I told them it’s not only for picking my ears but also my nose. At that time, I think some of the church members were disgusted. Also, I don’t change socks that frequently. My family members seem to put old socks and old clothes in a laundry basket after wearing them for a day or two. So I often asked them whether they could wear their socks and clothes little longer. Still, they put their clothes and socks in the laundry basket. It isn’t that my wife and the children are strange but I am. Haha. Now even my church members know that I weak my socks for few days. Haha. Well, of course I don’t make farting sound in the public places. I do it quietly because I don’t want to be embarrassed. I think the longest farting record I have is almost 40 seconds to 1 minute even though I didn’t exactly timed it [A man named Bernard Clemens, who lived in London in 1956, left a record of farting continuously for 2 minutes and 42 seconds (Pease)]. I still remember that I set this record at the Tucson airport in Arizona. I was surprised by myself that I could fart that long. Haha. I didn’t know that a woman farts until my third year in college. I got to know that the woman farts too because one of the sister in Christ in the same Christian club told me that women also fart too. Haha. When my wife heard this from me, she said to our children that my mother and younger sister had not farted in front of me. That was why I didn’t know that women fart too. According to Pease, 96.3 percent of men admit to farting, while only 2.1 percent of women admit it (Pease). That’s how much farting is disgusting to the women. However, we, the men, are still doing the same thing without hesitation. I think because we think that it’s okay to do it. But we think that women should not fart in front of people. We think that it is a taboo for the women to fart in front of people. But men seem to think of farting as just male expression.
Sometimes when I'm having dinner with my family, I cannot but fart. Once when I did it, my first daughter who sat right next to me said ‘yuck’. I think she was disgusted. But my wife often said, 'You are digesting.' I think it is because she likes me to eat well and digest well. Once she told the kids that my fart didn’t smell. Haha. The funnier thing is that my youngest daughter told her older sister that since I am a dad and a leader of the family, it is okay for me to fart. Haha.