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I'd have to get a pocket counter to keep track of all the times a day that I fart. It would certainly be in the double digits.
Once I was coming home to the apartment building where I live and, being out of doors with no one around, I let one off just before turning to go up the stairs to the entrance. Immediately after doing that, I saw that there was a girl sitting on the steps talking into her cell phone. I'm sure that my fart was not loud enough to reach her ears, but I expect that the smell reached her nostrils after I passed (I mean, after I climbed past her). Luckily, she was not a resident of the building, and I don't think I have seen her since then. I wouldn't want to have a neighbor who runs away at the sight of me for fear that I am going to fart at her.
As George Carlin said, "Kids think farts are great, farts are funny, farts are shit without the mess!"