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A Comedy From Birth

I have been saying this over and over again, my life is a comedy waiting to happen. I WAS WRONG. It was a damned comedy from birth, and my mom has proof.

Do you know that pregnant women get severe gas-pains and could sometimes be mistaken for labor pains by first-time mothers? When my mom was pregnant with me, she always had gas-pains (apparently, even back then I was full of hot air). One day, she felt a severe kind of pain, something different, and immediately told my dad. You know what his reply was? “I-utot lang na” in English “Just go ahead and fart.”

Now, that said “fart” is a 26-year old girl living in Norway, blumbing through life, wondering why the most inopportune moments just seem to happen to her with troubling regularity.  It started with the fart. My life is not a comedy waiting to happen. It IS a comedy right from the very damned fart. No, start. Ah shit. No! Scratch that. Oh fuck it.