I recently recounted this incident for the victim..and good friend and former field engineer traveling buddy, who has been in the hospital with some serious health issues. He begged me to stop telling stories...something about it hurting to l;augh.
So there we were...two lonely field engineers, standing next to each other in a tiny and near-deserted airport terminal in remote Sandane, Norway. It was o-dark-thirty, and we're waiting for our little plane to arrive. Having imbibed significant quantities of the rich Norwegian pilsner the evening before, my constitution was a bit....unsettled. At some point, the pressure inside my person decided it needed to equalize with the atmospheric pressure. The result was a noxious gas emission of sufficient volume to refloat the Hindenburg. It is at that point that I slowly edge away from Bobby, trying to get some social distancing action going. I look back in his direction and he's looking at me with a curious "wtf you doin'?" expression on his face. That look is immediately erased by one that is a combination of horror and pure disgust and he's waving his arms around like he's fending off angry bees, and desperately trying to move around and find some clean, breathable air. Oh..and he was calling me terrible names too.
Henceforth and forever more, he and I refer to that as the "Sandane Incident".