We had a disgusting episode at Rose & Crown.....

[dinomom96]

My DS9 was thoughtfull enough last year to wait until 5am and in bed at WL before he threw up his "MORE than you can eat" ribs from WCC

 

[vatmark]

You are not in my minority! I'm a mom and puke makes me want to puke. I can smell it a mile away. Last year at Chef Mickey's the little girl next to us sat down - I looked at my husband and said that child is sick - 10 minutes later - puke city...... the dad looks at us and says, "she hasn't been feeling well all day". Lets not waste our money but lets go puke on Disneyworld.....
They were not quick to move either - they had one of the big buckets they put dishes in and she just kept at it in there..... finally the manager came over and asked them if they'd like to come back some other time. It was gross - it smelled bad - I didn't like it. I can deal with anything else in life - blood, poop - you name it. But vomit is just plain gross and it's my "thing" that truly can ruin my day. I don't want to do it and I certainly don't want my 3 year old to do it - if she does, we'll be out of there as fast as we can run (while daddy cleans it up of course! ).

That is just wrong. To bring your child out to a restuarant knowing that they are not feeling well. I feel bad for the poor kid.

Annie

 

[BraveMom3]

I have no comment really about how the OP reacted - wasn't there - but, we had the most horrible thing happen with our family last Thanksgiving. My three children (13, 9, & 8), my Mom, and I were enjoying a wonderful meal at Crystal Palace before the MVMCP was to begin. We had literally just finished our meal, when all of a sudden my 9yo DS literally "erupted"! It was so surreal - I just looked at him like, "Did you really just cover the table?!" After a couple of seconds I composed myself, and then proceeded to be horrified for the people around us. I looked around, and no one seemed to have noticed. I mean he didn't make a scene or anything. I quickly threw a napkin on his lap (to cover) and took the rest of the napkins and covered the table. A waiter came over, and said not to worry, he would be right back. Meanwhile, I checked my son quickly to see if I could tell why he had been sick - no fever or anything else obvious. My Mom and I stacked the dishes and were in the process of discreetly gathering up the tablecloth with the "mess" intact when the waiter returned. He told us to please not bother with it, that he would take care of it. He asked how my son was and if he could get anything for him. We apologized for the mess, and left. I was so thankful that no one even knew this had happened so that their meal would be ruined. Turns out it was just a fluke thing. My son insisted he was fine, I bought him a new pair of pants, and we enjoyed the party!

 

[DebbieB]

Wait a minute--my kids might be able to start the fireworks if we eat at Rose & Crown for dinner? I'm making ressie's for every night of our stay now!

It's not that big of a deal. They have the kid stand there with one of those multi-color telescope flashlights and when the drums start at the beginning, they have them standing there waiving it. The first shot goes over that area.

 

[ReneeA]

I hate to admit this, but this thread makes me happy. Very happy.

Not because of the OP...I thought it was terrible how she handled the sitch, but because I have pukers, too. I didn't know it was such a widespread phenomenon. My DS4 has sensory issues due to a neurological problem, and some food textures make him puke. DD3 is a drama queen and can make herself puke on command either for attention, or sympathy, or manipulation. I also have a weak stomach and puke pretty easily, so maybe that part of it is genetic.

 

[Yacht Club Family]

My kids puke all the time when they get hot, so if you plan to be at WDW July 14-23 please do not eat at the following restaurants between the hours of 5:00 and 7:00 pm or you might get a preview of what they had for lunch!! Crystal Palace, Ohana ,WCC , LTT, Kona, Le Cellier,Cape May, Mama Melroses!!!

Hey, we'll be there then! Don't worry, if we do see you, we'll most likely say to each other, "awww, poor kid, hope his tummy feels better soon." Then, we'll make it a point to just ignore the whole thing. If it's the smell, well... it is Disney... you know... home of the unwashed masses. LOL There are so many equally bad smells around those parks all during the day, especially into the evening after everyone has been running around in that heat for hours. Heck, I think those mist machines should contain deodorizer.

Seriously, it wouldn't be pleasant to eat next to that smell, but a person can only move so fast to clean it up, and they most likely had to wait for a table to empty before they could move them. I wouldn't begrudge the family staying as long as the child weren't contagious with something, why make them miss the fireworks. On the other hand, if it bothered your family so much, why force them to stay and endure it so that "you" didn't miss the fireworks???

One of the most distressing problems in our society today is lack of compassion and a general unwillingness to try to understand things from others' points of view. Guess I'd rather be a role model to my kids regarding compassion and composure than freak them out by being a "germ queen" or whatever it was and teach them to sit in judgment of people so readily.

Then, again... that's just my opinion.

 

[JESW]

We have had our share of puke and Disney vacations....but it was OUR kids doing the puking!

The worst I ever saw was the first night of our Disney cruise last april...the seas were VERY rough (ship was rocking!) and they had cm's all over the place with the puke picker-uppers....people were getting sick ALL over the place! You couldn't walk very far without stumbling across a pile of the stuff they put all over it....blah...

Jill

 

[laceemouse]

IMO.... I don't know how you sat there in the first place after you had smelt the vomit!!!!!! I would have run a mile. Vomit has a really bad effect on me, I just can't stand it. I know it can't be helped and it doesn't always mean someone is ill, but whatever the reason, it makes me heave.

If someone is being sick my Hubby can go to them, rub their back, comfort them, while they are actually being sick !!!!!!!!!! I would love to have a stomach strong enough to cope with that, but I'm afraid I don't. I start to heave instantly and it's painful.

I'm sorry that you had that experience, but next time, do what I would do......... LEAVE !! Immediately !!!

Do you have kids? Better toughen up, us moms usually have NO choice!! We have had three episodes of pukes at WDW, dd3#, when she was 2, all over the bed at the Polly, ds, age 10, but he made it into a bathroom in Japan at EPCOT, and dd#2 in the Lobby at CR when she was about 5. Sorry to anyone we upset !

 

[Ms.Mouse]

I think one of the problems was the amount of time it took for the CMs to clean up the mess. The amount of vomit/sawdust on the floor made it impossible for the OPs family to just walk out.

They had to wait for everything to be cleaned, then have the CMs find them another table.

Of course, we don't know exactly how long it took to clean it up... From experience (I was a bus driver and no fail... at the beginning of the school year... out comes the chem clean) I know it has to stay down for awhile to absorb the liquids. That, and, I'm sure the waitstaff was taking their time because would you want them to hurry and make a mess and swish the stuff up near you or create a vomit dust cloud on top of it all???? AND I don't care if the vomit and sawdust was in the walkway... IF I wanted to get out of there... I'd walk between tables and make people move to let me out if I was that sickened by the vomit. In the end, they were moved... We all know how difficult it is to get seating at most of the restaurants... Maybe they had to wait for a table to clear to move the OP's family to another.


We went to WDW for Christmas 2005 and while we were at Pecos Bills, a woman allowed her young daughter to pull her pants down and pee right at the front door of Pecos Bill's!!! I was outraged and yelled at her. She looked at me and smiled and said she didn't speak English... Well, no excuse for allowing your 5-7 year old to pee in front of the restaurant when the bathroom is right inside!!!! I went into the restaurant and told the waitstaff there. It took a few minutes but out came the chem clean and it got applied and after a few minutes to absorb it... They started gently sweeping it up (BECAUSE there were people eating on the benches outside the door) they didn't want to create all kinds of dust. The CM's made lite of that too...As I thought about it, I think mainly to not cause the WDW guests to become more negative about it. You know how anger and a negative attitude can create more of the same??????..... So.... I think the staff at R&C acted as I would expect a WDW CM to act.

 

[mefordis]

What kind of parent keeps their kid in a restaurant after they throw up? A selfish kind? A kind of parent who doesn't want to miss fireworks? A kind of parent who doesn't want their vacation evening to be inconvenienced by a sick child? And excuse me, but a vomiting child IS a sick child - for whatever amount of time and for whatever reason they vomited. That is why another way of saying "vomited" is "getting sick", as in, "I just got sick in Rose and Crown restaurant and mom didn't take me back to the hotel room because she was having too much fun and wanted to stick around to watch others 'get sick' by smelling my nasty vomit."

Parenting 101 - when your kids vomit in a restaurant, please take them back to their hotel room/home to rest!

OP - you are RIGHT ON!!!

 

[juligrl]

...THEN I smell the distinct smell of vomit and cleaning chems like they use in schools and I just feel so ill. I look over and a CM is cleaning w/sawdust and spreading it around etc into the grout of the stone floor.

Lives4Disney

The "sawdust" was probably odor-sorb or a similar product. It is a basic necessity for amusement park cleaning crews. It is used to clean up and take the smell away from vomit and urine as well (I think - it's been 7 years since I last worked at an amusement park, but that's what sticks in my head). Sounds like the CM was using it how it's supposed to be used. Not the most pleasant stuff in the world, but would you rather have had the vomit sit there?

....I am like - uh, I don't want my kids within 50 yards of these kids and there is NO WAY in **** that we will be participating in some little silly thing with a vomiting kid.....
Lives4Disney

Have your kids ever threw up without being sick or anything? I think 99% of kids probably do (nerves, excitement, etc.). I think you waaaaay over-reacted to this. JMHO.

 

[DVCconvert]

hara kiri maybe an option

 

[heatherlynn444]

I hate to admit this, but this thread makes me happy. Very happy.

Not because of the OP...I thought it was terrible how she handled the sitch, but because I have pukers, too. I didn't know it was such a widespread phenomenon. My DS4 has sensory issues due to a neurological problem, and some food textures make him puke. DD3 is a drama queen and can make herself puke on command either for attention, or sympathy, or manipulation. I also have a weak stomach and puke pretty easily, so maybe that part of it is genetic.

your daughter can puke on command?!? I must say that is kinda cool, what a talent! I would be afraid to upset her or not let her get her way for fear of massive amounts of vomit!

also, to the post about the girl peeing in the restaurant doorway, that is SICK. I am assuming they were from another country. which is absolutely no excuse. If you do not know how to act properly in the USA then learn how to before you come!

 

[Dorisk3]

I'm going to say it- I'm with the OP on this one. I am extremely paranoid borderline phobic about stomach viruses- definetly a weird hangup of mine. If I smell vomit I want to run in the opposite direction. When my kids come down with any kind of stomach bug I practically attach the Lysol to myself and use Purell like every 2 seconds! And to the poster way back that said you'd have to eat the puke to get sick- think to yourself how quickly a stomach bug travels around any family. Those germs get everywhere! How was the OP to know if the kids on the other table just ate too much cotton candy or whether they had come down with the Norfolk virus? You can never be too careful. Nothing against the poor kid that threw up, it happens- but I can see why a person would be a little upset to see and smell vomit on the floor and then have the staff act like it was no big deal.

 

[LoveWDW]

My children didn't vomit so much as those I've read about here, so if they vomited for any reason I would have taken them back to the room to rest. But if they vomited all the time then probably I would have shrugged it off.

If someone vomited next to me, I would have been vomiting along with them, I'm afraid. So I agree with one of the above posters that I would have left immediately to avoid this happening. I would have been apologetic to the CM's, though about leaving.

 

[schoen]

I am so torn about this issue... I rarely read a whole thread this long, but I am enticed by this. I can see so many sides of the story.

I wait tables (sadly) and just a couple weeks ago I had a kid throw up in the dining room (I work at a family place, and despite the posts here it is NOT a common occurance for me, although it sounds like maybe it should be!) I didn't know what to do about it, and I certainly didn't know the proper procedures for cleaning it up. I told my manager, and he cleaned it up. I was not able to move the customers in the area though, because the restaurant was full (which I am sure at 8:10 at the RC the place is pretty packed). I did not make a big deal out of the situation, and I tried to downplay it, because I wanted to keep the situation discrete. I wanted to upset as few guests as possible.

It seems to me that the OP did in fact overreact. What I don't understand is that she is angry after: she got moved, her kids were treated wonderfully by the wait staff, and they got a meal comped. an unplesant situation? certainly, but not worth such a wet blanket mentality.

On the other hand... there are various air-born illnesses that can be transfered via vomit. I teach a food saftey class, and a virsus such as the noral virus can be VERY contagious, and is airborn. There are two places in my city that had to close down over the winter due to an outbreak of this. One person came to work sick, and 500 were infected. Another outbreak was in fact caused by a guest getting sick, and 350 were infected. So... I can understand a slight cause for concern....

People have no idea how hard it is to wait tables and deal with a situation like this. A place like that is constantly busy, there is no down time. A situation like this is hard to deal with, and it is all on top of your other duties (greeting tables, getting refills, etc). I do not envy any of ther people involved in this situation, but the OP was probably in the best situation of all because she did not get sick in public, and she did not have to clean it up!

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

What kind of parent keeps their kid in a restaurant after they throw up? A selfish kind? A kind of parent who doesn't want to miss fireworks? A kind of parent who doesn't want their vacation evening to be inconvenienced by a sick child? And excuse me, but a vomiting child IS a sick child - for whatever amount of time and for whatever reason they vomited. That is why another way of saying "vomited" is "getting sick", as in, "I just got sick in Rose and Crown restaurant and mom didn't take me back to the hotel room because she was having too much fun and wanted to stick around to watch others 'get sick' by smelling my nasty vomit."

Parenting 101 - when your kids vomit in a restaurant, please take them back to their hotel room/home to rest!

OP - you are RIGHT ON!!!

Thousands and thousands of helpful threads on this board... and a person registers a screen name JUST to comment on the "barf-o-rama" drama...

Funny how the stench of a conspiracy theory is stronger than vomit

 

[mom23boys]

Having a child puker myself I am also torn on this one.

My younges DS (4) has severe reflux and a hyper gag reflex. If a texture is not what he likes in his mouth he automatically gags and throws up. He is not sick and does not have a virous it is just reflux.

He has thrown up in more places than I can count. I do sympathize with the OP, you would think I was used to the smell, but I cannot eat after he does throw up.

Maybe this child has reflux or was not feeling good, but if she was like my child after he throws up he is fine and goes on with life.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Thousands and thousands of helpful threads on this board... and a person registers a screen name JUST to comment on the "barf-o-rama" drama...

Funny how the stench of a conspiracy theory is stronger than vomit

SHHHHH, it's probably the OP....

I'm the mommy, so I'm the "designated gross-stuff handler" in the family. Guess that's made me a lot less sensitive to that kind of stuff, and I don't think I'd have reacted as strongly as the OP. If I did, though, I'd simply leave.
DH, though, is a sympathy-hurler...he'd have to make a hasty exit, or the OP would have one more person to complain about.

 

[Sonno]

All I have to say.