A gross vent!

[bananiem]

DD12 and I go to see "Over the Hedge" (which is a cute movie, BTW). A Mom comes in with her 3 kids ages 6 and under and a baby in a baby carrier. They all have their treats and I think "That's neat. When my kids were that age we couldn't afford movies AND a treat and aren't those kids lucky." Anywho, shortly after the movie starts I hear "the sound". You know, the sound of a kid throwing up. The Mom takes the 2 little girls to the exit and comes back for the baby carrier. The oldest boy tags along behind. I hear "the sound" again.
I keep thinking somebody's going to come clean it up, but no one does. Then the family shows up again and sits down. Well, the jokes on me! I didn't hear "the sound" after all!
The movie gets over and we go to leave and we round the corner to the exit and there it is. She had at least an hour to clean it up or alert the employees. Instead, she let it soak into the carpet and what was left my dd stepped in because I didn't say "Look out!" fast enough.
If it had been me I'd have at least gotten towels from the restroom. The baby was in the carrier until the very end of the movie and the kids sat quietly. It wasn't like she couldn't clean it up.
I think that's just inconsiderate and gross.

 

[grimley1968]

Uggghhh. That is awful. That would have spoiled the whole movie for me.

 

[FreshTressa]

Me too.

I obsess over vomit.

Just be glad you couldn't smell it. ewww.

 

[PixieDust32]

OMG! Nasty.

What a nasty person.

 

[we3disneygo]

there's no way I could have sat there for a movie after that!!

 

[crazy4disney01]

EEEEWWWWW Yuck!!!

Makes you wonder what her house looks like. I don't understand why people do things out in public like that, but if they were at home, they wouldn't let it soak into the carpet like that, or sit without being disinfected and cleaned up. Makes no sense!!!

 

[Stacerita]

That is nasty!!! Yuck! She should have told an employee. Gross. I would have lost it just hearing it though. I have an up-chuck reflex for that kinda stuff.

 

[Luv'sTink]

Nasty! Just Nasty!

 

[HunnyPots]

Ok - here'a another gross vomit story. I was in Disneyland waiting for the evening parade to start on Main Street. A mom, dad, and three kids under age six are sitting about four feet away from me on the curb. The little boy who looks about 5 keeps saying he doesn't feel good. Mom insists he eat something. She pulls an apple out of her bag and talks him into eating it. A few minutes later, we all hear "the sound". Yep, he pukes a huge puddle in the street in front of him and to my surprise, no one in that family moves. Then mom, who is holding little brother, starts laughing and saying, "Did you see that, honey? Bubba had apples coming out his nose!"

 

[Dakota_Lynn]

Me too.

I obsess over vomit.

Just be glad you couldn't smell it. ewww.

I sure hope for your sake the tag fairy is on vacation!

 

[delilah]

This is a non-Disney related gross vomit story (and I know a few, being a doctor). When my son was about three, we had second row center tickets to Blue's Clues live. Great seats. Until the little girl about three seats over had a puke episode. Ewww. Fortuntately the family decided to go the opposite direction to leave than where we were sitting. I was mainly concerned about my son getting whatever she had. The theater staff did a good job of cleaning up promptly. This actually is an example of my advice to whoever's child is puking. Your hand only holds maybe 30cc, about a tablespoon. It serves no useful purpose to stick your hand in a puking child's face. You aren't going to hold it in. You are just going to make yourself sick. Likewise, let your child spew where he is. If you move him, you will get infectious material in a much wider distribution than it they puke right in front of them on the floor. It is much easier to clean a localized patch of floor than the walls, furniture, and anything else in the path between where the episode starts and wherever the bathroom is.

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

I'd be curious to know your thoughts - should the mom clean it up or is it only her responsibility to inform someone?

One day my DS and I both had strep - of course we didn't know it prior to the diagnosis. We went to his pediatrician...then on to my DR. Well.....while walking into my DR office, DS has "the sound" - I inform the staff and get "the look". Like I could help it!!!! Gesh! So I'm not feeling well, DS isn't feeling well, I ask for something to clean it up....they, of course, are busy....I'm getting "the look" from others in the room. I wanted to yell - "Hey - short of using my own shirt....there ain't nothin to use out here!!!" It was a very difficult situation. They ended up carting us into a back room and gave DS a bucket. He didn't get sick again.

 

[golfgal]

I'd be curious to know your thoughts - should the mom clean it up or is it only her responsibility to inform someone?

One day my DS and I both had strep - of course we didn't know it prior to the diagnosis. We went to his pediatrician...then on to my DR. Well.....while walking into my DR office, DS has "the sound" - I inform the staff and get "the look". Like I could help it!!!! Gesh! So I'm not feeling well, DS isn't feeling well, I ask for something to clean it up....they, of course, are busy....I'm getting "the look" from others in the room. I wanted to yell - "Hey - short of using my own shirt....there ain't nothin to use out here!!!" It was a very difficult situation. They ended up carting us into a back room and gave DS a bucket. He didn't get sick again.

This happened to us at the dr's office once too. DD was sick, fever, cough, etc (she had phenomia) and threw up all over herself, the floor, etc. We raced into the bathroom so she could finish but she had quite a bit on the floor where we were sitting. I came out of the bathroom expecting to see someone cleaning it up-they have paid staff to clean things. No one was doing a thing. I went over to the receptionist and said my DD was sick can we get someone to clean it up? No response. The nurse came out, saw what happened and got dd a set of scrubs to change into, called the housekeeping crew and let the dr know what happened. He in turn gave an earful to the receptionists. He was mad.

 

[AprilShowers]

Confession Time:
We went to nephew's HS basketball game and it was really hot in the gym. Youngest DD (about 4 at the time) was complaining about not feeling good. I figured she was over heated so we went into the lobby. She walked around for a bit and asked for a slushie. Yep, a blue one.
I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS SICK! I SWEAR!

Well after the slushie, we went back into the gym and about 5 minutes later, she let her rip right down the back of some guys jacket. We were sitting on bleachers, and he was RIGHT in front of us and she was sitting on my lap. And since she was sitting on my lap, it didn't go on the outside of his jacket, but right down his neck and INTO his jacket.

It was disgusting! If I had been that guy, I would have been really ticked off! He was so kind, went to the bathroom, cleaned himself off and, according to my SIL, finished watching the game.

 

[Christine]

My kid has puked TWICE in the line for Test Track.

Don't anyone here ever follow us onto this ride.

I don't know what my son's *deal* is with the ride, he gets very nervous. The first time we went on, we had just finished up a dinner at the Liberty Tree Tavern. We headed over to Epcot and went right to Test Track. It was his first time and he got scared in the line. As we were getting close to the front, my son starts "wretching." I saw an exit and started heading for it. We didn't make it. He threw up all over my feet and the line. I'm sure some others got hit. But within minutes, a CM was there with the sawdust. They also volunteered to take him around the other way and let him get on without waiting (we explained it was his nerves). So he got to go on the ride.

Last year we tried this again. He had just finished a Mickey ice cream bar. In line, he started wretching again. This time I got him out to the front of Test Track and he proceeded to vomit all over the entrance. I let a CM know. Then we waited for the rest of the family to come out. After 30 minutes, no one had made a move to clean up this vomit. Poor people kept having to step over it to go on the ride.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Ew. That's just nasty.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Ewww gross. What is wrong with people?

 

[Chattyaholic]

This is a non-Disney related gross vomit story (and I know a few, being a doctor). When my son was about three, we had second row center tickets to Blue's Clues live. Great seats. Until the little girl about three seats over had a puke episode. Ewww. Fortuntately the family decided to go the opposite direction to leave than where we were sitting. I was mainly concerned about my son getting whatever she had. The theater staff did a good job of cleaning up promptly. This actually is an example of my advice to whoever's child is puking. Your hand only holds maybe 30cc, about a tablespoon. It serves no useful purpose to stick your hand in a puking child's face. You aren't going to hold it in. You are just going to make yourself sick. Likewise, let your child spew where he is. If you move him, you will get infectious material in a much wider distribution than it they puke right in front of them on the floor. It is much easier to clean a localized patch of floor than the walls, furniture, and anything else in the path between where the episode starts and wherever the bathroom is.

I work in a restaurant and a family was waiting in the lobby to be seated. The little girl (about 3-4 years old) starts to hurl. Rather than walking right back out the door the grandmother grabs the girl with one hand and with the other hand covering the child's mouth marches her through the entire restaurant to get to the bathroom on the other side. The child is spewing what looked (and smelled!!) like curdled milk all the while and it is spraying out of her mouth because of course the child can't "hold it in" and the grandmother can't "contain it" either!! It was ALL OVER the floor, on other people, the tables, the walls, EVERYWHERE!!! ABSOLUTELY NASTY!!! Other customers were gagging! Thankfully the owner was there and she cleaned it up, but it was quite a MESS!!! And EXTREMELY GROSS!!!!!