December 9, 2009

Who's had it the worst?!?!?

Alright, time for a little thing I like to call one-upping. I will tell a story and you try to one-up it.
WHERE IS THE WORST PLACE YOU HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH A PERSON THROWING UP? Here's mine:
Today, I decided to run in to Target to grab a gallon of milk. I get the kids out of the car and Ben is kind of whiny. He's had no nap, so I chalk it up to that. I start down the aisle, grab the milk and put it in, then head down to find a treat for me (it's been one of those weeks) and all of sudden he starts really whining. In hindsight I should have known the cry, but he's only thrown up a couple times, so I am not quite accustomed to it yet. And then the throwing up begins. Not just a little, but I mean projectile vomiting EVERYWHERE. I am not kidding. I tried to catch it, (a lot of good that would do anyway) but it was just like a faucet pouring right through my hands and it wouldn't stop. I move out of the middle of the aisle so people can get by and so I'm not leaving a puddle for people to traipse through and he then proceeds to throw up on the syrup bottles I am standing next to. (Don't buy syrup at the Target on Sepulveda locals!!) I stopped a manager burying his head in a clipboard and holding a walkie talkie like he was listening for instructions to invade a village or something. I contemplated for a second to let him pass and wait for the next person, but no one is above helping a lady with a puking child, even if he thought so. He called for someone "lesser than him" to help me. 2 sweet girls came and blocked it off until someone with a mop could come. They had a package of wet wipes I nearly finished and an industrial sized roll of paper towels I took close to inch off. I wiped me down, then stripped Ben down to socks and his diaper and wiped him down, then the syrup bottles, the cart, the gallon of milk and finally the floor. I went to the checkout with a crying, mostly naked baby in 50 degree weather (that's cold for us so back off you real winter people) and bought my milk. I am thinking how gross he still is and how unsanitary my hands, the cart, the milk, my diaper bag is and I don't want to put him in the carseat or hold him. I thought if I used the complimentary hand sanitizer at the register and rubbed my hands and Ben down it would help, but that smell stays with you. Quite a sight seeing a mom wiping her naked, crying baby down with hand sanitizer. And this is one of the many reasons why I don't like going places with my kids. And, he's not even really sick. Just through up something he didn't like eating.
Now, your turn.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Once we were going to give our apartment manager our check and Josh took Alannah with him and as they were giving it, she threw up all over in the managers office and then proceeded to throw up all over the elevator. I think the manager closed the office after that and left for the day. Josh thought he was going to throw up too. It was fun. You may win though because we were only semi in public.

Sarah said...

When we were in Disneyland in October, Abby got the flu. She threw up over and over and over for 24 straight hours in the hotel room. Then it was Audrey's turn, but that's not the worst part. We thought she was over it, started driving home, and she puked EVERYWHERE in the car at midnight in the middle of nowhere. (Zzyzx to be exact.) We left her car seat cover, pillowcase and all the paper towels on the side of the road. If she hadn't been wearing her new Disney sweatshirt I would have left it too. (Sorry to the poor guy who happened to adopt that section of the highway) THEN, I got it, and threw up over and over in a bucket while we drove the rest of the way home. WORST VACATION EVER!!!!!

princessipal said...

Oh, Veronica! I can't beat that and doubt I could even when I still had a memory. Poor little guy, but most of all poor YOU!

Justin said...

I'm going let you take home the prize on this one.

I'm glad Phil wasn't there because you would have had twice the vomit to clean up.

Annie

Mitch said...

If its any consolation, I remember the time that you threw up on the way home from White Mountain Creamery...

All down the side of Ed's car!

Philip said...

I would have either added to the puke or passed out (and been covered in puke and surrounded by crying children). Neither would have been pretty, but would have made the story even better. Maybe next time, blog readers, maybe next time.

Mark & Bek said...

Wow, that is horrible. How lucky I am that Russ never throws up, but scared for the future. What are the odds that none of my children never get the flu? That being said, although Russ hasn't thrown up anywhere, I have thrown up everywhere. But, I am an adult and can aim. Thank heavens.

Raspberry Lake Photography said...

I am a little late on this...but W threw up at the library right after kids class...all over one section. It was projectile, and I was covered, he was covered. Luckily I blocked the books we were looking at. I went and told the lady working there and then we be-lined for the bathroom where I wiped him and myself down the best I could with bathroom paper towels(worthless) and then we got the heck out of there. Rode home in our vomit. It was awful.

Raspberry Lake Photography said...

This is Marie, BTW!