How Do You Fart en Francais?

Ciaran and I had our French exam last night. It was pretty tough, all comprehension. I finished quite a bit before Ciaran did and waited patiently for him like the lovely wife that I am. Eventually he finished and we starting quietly packing up leave because some people were still writing the test.

Me: "Did you do well, do you think?"
Ciaran: "Yeah, there were some hard questions though"

Ciaran then farts. Loudly. This is immediately followed by a somewhat guilty/surprised look on his face.

I start laughing and I'm trying to talk casually, just so that it's not SO recognizable that yes, that WAS in fact a fart, but I CANNOT stop laughing. We start putting away our chairs, again, trying to act naturally, but tears are streaming down my face because I am trying to laugh as quietly as possible because, again, these poor people still working on the test are trying to conjugate verbs for crying out loud! The last thing they need is some silly woman laughing hysterically at an accidental bodily function. Finally, we get the stuff put away and I squeak out an "au revoir, merci" to my teacher and I'm out in the hall, finally able to laugh freely. But of course, with any good laugh, the moment has passed and it's not nearly as funny as it was when I couldn't laugh about it.

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