Death By Dad Farts

It was a hot summer day when Dad decided to take the family on a road trip. We packed the car with snacks, pillows, and high hopes for a fun-filled adventure. Little did we know that this trip would become the stuff of legend, forever etched in the annals of our family history as “Death By Dad Farts.”

It was a hot summer day when Dad decided to take the family on a road trip. We packed the car with snacks, pillows, and high hopes for a fun-filled adventure. Little did we know that this trip would become the stuff of legend, forever etched in the annals of our family history as “Death By Dad Farts.”

As we hit the open road, the excitement in the car was palpable. Dad had always been the jovial one, the joker of the family, and he was determined to make this trip a memorable one. Little did we know that his idea of “memorable” would take a rather aromatic turn.

The journey began innocently enough. Dad started cracking jokes and playing his favorite oldies tunes on the radio. We laughed, sang along, and marveled at the passing scenery. But as the hours rolled on, a subtle change began to waft through the air.

At first, it was just a soft, almost imperceptible toot. We giggled and teased Dad, thinking it was an isolated incident. But oh, how wrong we were. As the miles passed, Dad’s farts seemed to gain confidence and volume. They went from polite to raucous, from discreet to thunderous. Each one was like a sonic boom of flatulence, sending shockwaves of laughter and groans through the car.

We tried rolling down the windows, but that only seemed to amplify the effect as the wind carried the noxious cloud back into the car. Mom pleaded with Dad to stop, but he was on a mission. He was determined to break his previous record for the most farts in a single car ride.

Hours turned into days, and still, the farts kept coming. We couldn’t escape. The car became a gas chamber, and we were the unwilling inmates. Dad’s face was a portrait of pure mischief, as he reveled in his reign of olfactory terror. It was like a never-ending symphony of flatulence, a bizarre and hilarious performance that no one in the car would ever forget.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, we reached our destination. We spilled out of the car, gasping for fresh air, our eyes still watering from the unforgettable experience. We laughed until our sides hurt, realizing that this would be a story to tell for generations to come.

Years passed, and we often recounted the tale of the infamous road trip. Dad’s farts had become the stuff of legend, a cherished family memory that we shared with friends and newcomers alike. We laughed about it, even Dad himself, who had by then retired from his illustrious career as the “Farting Maestro.”

And then, one day, we found ourselves at Dad’s viewing. He had lived a long and joyful life, reaching the ripe old age of 99. As we stood somberly around his coffin, paying our final respects, there was a moment of eerie silence.

And then, from the depths of that wooden box, came a faint, unmistakable sound—a tiny, barely audible fart. Our eyes widened in disbelief, and a hushed laughter spread through the room. We couldn’t believe it, but there it was, the final encore, a farewell performance from Dad himself.

As we looked down at the casket, we noticed a tiny grin on Dad’s face, as if he had orchestrated this last act of humor from beyond the grave. It was a fitting farewell for a man who had always known how to bring laughter into our lives, even in the most unexpected and unforgettable ways.

We smiled and cried as we left the viewing, knowing Dad’s spirit and sense of humor would live on in our hearts and in the memory of that legendary road trip. In the end, his final act was a fitting farewell for a man who had brought so much laughter into their lives, even in his passing, and his last passing of gas.



Paul Harvey – So God Made A Farmer

Paul Harvey’s words still ring true today: God said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So he made a farmer

“So God Made a Farmer” was a speech given by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey at the 1978 Future Farmers of America convention. The speech was first published in 1986 in Harvey’s syndicated column. The speech borrowed a few phrases from a 1975 article written by Harvey in the Gadsden Times, which was itself inspired by parts of a 1940 definition of a dirt farmer published in The Farmer-Stockman. The 1940 article was copied verbatim by Tex Smith in a letter to the editor in the Ellensburg Daily Record in 1949. The speech was given as an extension of the Genesis creation narrative referring to God’s actions on the 8th day of creation. Harvey described the characteristics of a farmer in each phrase, ending them with the recurring “So God Made a Farmer”.

And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say,’Maybe next year,’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from an ash tree, shoe a horse with hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.” So God made the farmer.

God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-comb pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the leg of a meadowlark.”

It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and brake, and disk, and plow, and plant, and tie the fleece and strain the milk, . Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what Dad does. “So God made a farmer.”



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