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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/patientpartner09 on 2025-06-05 15:43:08+00:00.

I don’t know how many of you know this, but artichokes can apparently cause flatulence.

Last night, I made a couple of garlic butter white wine steamed artichokes using my instapot. They were delicious and the kids had zero interest so my husband and I each ate one. This morning, we both had a bit of gas and I thought that was the worst of it… boy, was I wrong.

Just after having coffee and sending the kids off to school, it came. The reminder text from school. …

Awards Ceremony in the MPR this morning.

My husband and I have never had gas this bad. It’s comical. Loud, long, stinky farts. Often. So we scramble and do our best to get it together. We gas ourselves out the whole car ride to the school. Then we made our way into the MPR and the wait began. We decided standing in the back was the way to go. We stood, we clapped, we used every single muscle available to hold the pressure in.

Suddenly, my husband made a face, and the creaking sound of a muffled fart… I couldn’t hold my giggles and that was a HUGE MISTAKE. The next thing I know, I am laugh-farting! We both start laughing so hard we had to step out the side door and when we walked out dying of laughter, there was a whole group of parents waiting for the next grade’s awards. So now at least 15 people are looking at us like we have 3 eyes and we are just fighting for our lives. We walked around back to the front door, snuck back in and stood 10 feet apart on the side wall, for safety. It was a hilarious drive home.

Lesson learned. Apparently artichokes cause us gas.

TL,DR: I gave my husband and and myself a horrible case of gas before a school award ceremony.