Where Is The Gas Pain Again?

An interesting story in my life, was about what signaled gas pain; which was, the gas pain in the head. Everything I learned was from old people; because I believed they knew the full gospel on life, pain and the very existence of earth. Often an older person would say, I have a gas pain in my head, killing me here boy! Seriously, how do you get a gas pain in the head? This diagnosis for head pain and other body parts were such a part of my upbringing that I really believed it and often attributed head pain to having gas in my head.                                                                          

One day while living in Brooklyn, New York I had just gotten of the subway and met a girlfriend at Nostrand Avenue, as we met and having greeted each-other; a few minutes thereafter,  when I suddenly burst-ed out;  I have a serious gas pain in my head girl!" She looked at me astonished and exploded into laughter and then scolded me, as she had just become a newly graduated Pediatric Physician and was gainfully unemployed. "K you cannot get a gas pain in your head, simple!" Well excuse me!! I exclaimed, my grandmother and every other person knows you can get a gas pain in your head!! She looked at me with great disappointment. Probably thinking too herself, " Is she for -real?  "K";  she continued, where exactly in your head can gas find a place to run around? If anything I think you need to take a dump!!!

Well just because you are a "Doctor" now doesn't mean that you are smarter than my grandmother, who is as old as dirt, and others have said that, and I believe it!!  I was too embarrassed to admit that I was terribly mis-educated about gas pains. But in the midst of a mildly populated Fish-n-Crust restaurant; I found mental solitude to contemplate the madness of my believing, my gas pain was in my head.  So much for the old wives tales about the people who died from gas pain and bad feelings they got in the head. Even though I never searched for the scientific evidence of this medical  conclusion or the old folks saying; somewhere inside me still believes gas pains can be felt in the head if not running around up there.