We were just discussing the Ideal-Gas Law...

This was no pV=nRT.

Physics class had just started and I had leaned over to get my textbook out of my bag. Just as I reached into my bag I felt the rumblings of a fart coming on. No big deal I had thought to myself, I can just let this one pass silently.

However, instead of the quiet whisper of passing gas, a thunderous roar was unleashed. Even after it was done, I could still feel it reverberating off of the classroom walls.

This was what I was aiming for...

...But I got this instead

The professor was stunned, only his shiny gray ponytail moved for those few moments. A few of the students turned their heads. There was only silence. I sat as still as possible.

Within a minute, life began to return to the classroom. The professor returned to his lecture and everyone else went back to writing their notes or texting. That was when the smell settled in.

For a second time the professor paused the lecture. He just stood silently in front of the class, as if he had lost his train of thought. Soon enough the smell had diffused through the entire classroom and everyone knew what was going on. I looked around and tried to act as if I too had no clue as to where the smell was coming from.

This is what happened when the smell settled in.

Soon enough the smell faded away and we returned to discussing pressure-volume diagrams and the ideal-gas law.

What surprises me is how no one said anything, there were no laughs or any outcries of disgust. There was just a silence that hovered over the classroom.

I haven't been this embarrassed by a fart since elementary school.