Prince (my dog, who has already been mentioned in this thread) got me back. We just got back from a cruise Sunday, I'm sick as a...well, I'm sick enough not to go to work. My GF picked up the dogs this morning from the kennel after I go in to work and get sent home.
I think I'm gonna die, fever, stopped-up head, sweats, coughing up big chunks of lung-butter. I try to lay down on the couch, but the dogs are REALLY excited to see dear old dad after a week at dog camp. Princess is wiggling and wagging, about to come out of her fur, so I kneel down to pet her. Prince is jealous, and comes up and jumps up and knocks her out of the way. I start to pet him, and he licks my ear, as he's doing that he unleashes a BRUTAL belch right in my ear! I mean, it sounded like a bomb going off! I fell the rest of the way to the floor, Prince is just happier than a tornado in a trailer park, and is bouncing all over me trying to get me to play, which I have NO interest in at this point. I manage to fling him off to the side long enough to try to get up, and retire myself to the couch. Man's best friend and all...
So I'm laying there watching TV, and have just taken about a half a bottle of Nyquil in hopes it will either clear me up, or knock me out. As it happens, it knocked me out. I was having one of those weird Nyquil dreams- you know, where nothing makes any sense, when I heard my GF leave for work. I opened my eyes to see Prince glide between the coffee table and my face. As his hindquarters passed my head, I heard a pop. It was kind of like the first popcorn kernel in your microwave going off, but louder. I was on my side, rather disoriented, and wondering what made that pop, so I tried to sit up. My head ran right into a foul stench...uh-oh, the dreaded DOG FART! But I wasn't worried- I haven't been able to smell anything for the last four days anyway. So here I am, struggling to get vertical, unable to breathe through my nose, yet gagging on the noxious fumes apparently emitted by my dog, AND IT WON'T GO AWAY!!! It stayed in my nose, I guess it was suspended in in snot or something, for about five minutes!!! I looked over at Prince, and said "Prince! Go outside!" He just looked over his shoulder at me with a look that said "What? You did it to me, dad!"