Hi, I expect everyone on here has had the embarrassment of noises at the wrong times! how does one deal with it though?! I say 'shut up Henry' when I'm at home, or 'Henry's voicing his opinion yet again!', but at work I can't cope with it, I don't eat all day until tea time in a vain attempt to lose weight, and to stop Henry being active, but occasionally he makes rude noises. I work in a very rough high school where anything unusual gets noticed and commented on very quickly.... 'Miss just farted' etc! (though I got out of it nicely one day saying 'can you smell anything?' the answer was 'no', to which I said 'well then you misheard!'... there was a science class of year 11's I had not long after I went back after my bowel op, I went back to work a week after getting out of hospital as I couldn't cope with the depression that had seeped in, I clearly wasn't ready, couldn't walk properly and my output was very frequent, green and watery, plus the inevitable gas... and it was so loud that everyone heard it, and found it hilarious... one of those time when you wish the floor would open up! So, my question is how do you cope with it in public? x
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