Germaphobe

March 29, 2007

Warning: read at your own risk. And definitely not while eating something.

I have a friend who is one of the biggest germaphobes I know. I have no idea why she’s even a flight attendant. She refuses to touch anything in the lavatory and will constantly wash her hands with antibacterial soap that she brings from home. She even uses those doctor-type gloves to pick up trash.

Today she was boarding a flight when an elderly lady came on the plane and said that her husband was not feeling well.

*See where this is going?*

So she’s watching this man walk down the jetway towards her and realizes that he looks pale. She gives him a trash bag in case he gets sick.

Know what he did?

He put the trash bag on the ground and threw up on her instead. On her clothes. In her hair. On her face.

Yup, that’s right. The poor thing, she almost had a nervous breakdown.

I don’t remember situations like this in the training video.

I know I may regret asking this but . . . what’s the grossest thing that’s ever happened to you?

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30 Comments on “Germaphobe”

1
March 29, 2007
10:25 am

Erica said:

I witnessed this;

My husband was happily playing with our seven month daughter, you know, throwing her in the air and whatnot. He didn’t consider the fact that she had just eaten a tea of savoury mash which included peppers and sweetcorn. She was sick on his head from a great height - not nice!

2
March 29, 2007
11:55 am

Anne said:

EWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I feel for her.

3
March 29, 2007
12:01 pm

maria said:

much like Erica’s story, when I was 11, my youngest sister “christened” me…IN MY MOUTH…I was laying on my back, holding her over my head, laughing with her….BAM…no warning, no nothing…just a mouth and face full o regurged formula. Considering I went on to have 3 kids of my own,and none of them was able to top that, you know it was gross.

4

carmen said:

See? My warped brain finds that hilarious - because he picked the germaphobe to throw up on.

Eeeewww!!! The grossest thing that happened to me was when Little Princess was a baby and kept projectile vomiting all over everything and everyone at random moments.

6

Heather L. said:

I’ve had the vomit in the mouth and the projectile vomiting, but nothing can top the messes I found when I cleaned our local movie complex. There were 10 large theaters and two HUGE bathrooms. I think that people think since they are in the dark of the theater, no one will ever know what they are up to. They don’t consider the person who will be cleaning up after them.
I’ve had cups full of spit (from chewing tobacco and snuff), cups full of, well… other bodily fluids, OTHER bodily fluids on the floor and my favorite, the time I found ‘poo’ smeared all over the men’s room.
Great story!

7

Amy said:

Now this is true love….my hubs and I were on a little touristy boat while we were sight seeing. We were near the back and the diesel fumes started getting to me. I, being unable to move very fast or get on my knees because of my arthritis, started throwing up. My poor husband didn’t want me to get sick all over my clothes so he cupped his hands and caught my puke and threw it overboard in time to catch some more. He said he could see the fishies coming up to eat it too. He’s a good catch because my clothes were spotless. Now if that’s not true love then I don’t know what is!

8

Pamela said:

my brain isn’t working right now…
I’m thinking it was when I was sitting on the grass and a dog came over and lifted his leg on me

9

wendy said:

Why on earth would he do that? I have a BIG issue with vomit so this bothers me. Was she able to get herself cleaned up? I would have had to leave that instant and go directly to a hose or shower or something. The grossest thing that has happened to me was probably when I had my dog as a puppy visiting my aunt. He was sitting on my lap and I just knew something was about to happen. He started throwing up and I caught it in my hands. My cousins and aunt were impressed that I reacted so fast. I was just trying to get rid of it as fast as possible. Yuck! Like I said big issues with vomit.

10

yoshi said:

wow, that’s just crazy. I can’t think of any gross situations for me. seriously. it’s like nothing really gross ever happened to me. well, that’s not entirely true now that I think about it. there were many times working in the ER or as an EMT. but no one likes to hear about those situations hehe.

11

Renee said:

I think my grossest story was with DD. My Mom & I were driving all over town looking for some Dermacaine and I decided to change dd in the back seat of the car (the one we had for sale). No sooner than I had removed the old diaper then DD poohed all over the back seat of the car! I got it all cleaned up very good…I’m amazed at how well those baby wipes work. LOL I’ve also had to catch barf before…it saved my couch & carpet!

DH’s grossest story: He was ushering at Church on Christmas Eve. One of the elderly members comes rushing to the back door which DH opens for him…as soon as the man reaches the door (he’s in the hall way now) he throws up. Apparently the man had consumed sourkraut recently! DH is really sensitve to smell and he had to go find the mop bucket and clean up the mess while the man went to the bathroom to finish expelling said dinner. DH managed to get the entire mess cleaned up before the service was over without throwing up himself.
A week later the man sent DH a thank you note. LOL! Funny thing was…DH felt that his stomach was too queezy to handle changing diapers. I should have held that story over his head.

12

Melissa said:

YUCK!! That’s just nasty! Grossest thing… hmmm… let me think… when we were in college we had a 10-12 hour drive home (depending on the weather). We were driving through the middle of nowhere Montana and baby filled his pants. It was snowing and super cold, so I just put him on my lap to change him. He apparently wasn’t done… as soon as I got the diaper off he pooped all over me with such a force that it went all over my shirt and pants and my seat. We only had baby wipes to clean up the mess and 4-5 more hours of our trip. And no where to stop and get something to clean it up. So, I cleaned it up as best I could and then sat there… smelling it for the rest of the trip…blech.

13

Elizabeth said:

Oh that makes me sad for your friend. That’s a tough one to beat.. stranger puke. Yeah, I haven’t had very gross things happen to be. Kids (students, not my child- although he has too) wiping their noses on my clothes, that is about it.

14

Vicki said:

Ohhh man!

Once, gag gag gag, I drank from someone’s spit cup thinking it was soda.

I’m going to puke now ……….

15

katkat said:

I was on the highway moving with my cat sitting in the passengers seat and he pooded. that was fun. Another time In school and throw up in the lunch line.

16

Dana said:

Just now read your post…and HAD to comment. Most people’s gross stories involve upchucking…but mine is a little different. About 6 years ago, I was dating a guy that dipped snuff. Like most guys who have this filthy nasty habit (shudder inserted here), he would carry around a cup with his spit in it. In this instance, he was using a soda bottle and would spit in that and then recap it. OK, just telling this story is making me gag. SERIOUSLY.

OK, so we were at a ball game watching one of his kids play and he was sitting on the row behind me with his dip cup down beside me. Are you getting nervous wondering where this is going??????

Well, I had been drinking my Diet Coke while watching the game….and I (brace yourself) reached down and grabbed my Diet Coke (pregnant pause inserted here) and grabbed a big swig of it in my mouth. As I was swallowing it, I realized that (yep, you guessed it) it wasn’t my Diet Coke, but instead, my boyfriend’s dip-laced SPIT!!!!! Oh good Lord I have never in my life been so grossed out. Ever. Ever. Ever. I immediately got sick to my stomach. I wanted to die. I rushed to the bathroom and tried to wash my mouth out. My stomach felt nauseated and my mouth was burning with the dip taste.

Anyway, to this day I almost throw up just thinking about it. It was one of the worst moments of my life. I kid you not.

17

Poor, poor thing. I would have freaked out.

My grossest story seems to be a popular one. My baby girl pooped on me, actually her diaper just leaked. It was when she was about a month old or so and breastfed, so you know how it goes.

Modern Mami

18

Lissete said:

YUCK! Germaphobe or not, I would have freaked out! She might need to take an extended leave of absence to recover! I was at a friend’s house and you could hear her one year old babblin to hersrlf through the monitor. She asked if I wanted to go up and see her precious baby. While in the hallway, you could smell something unpleasant. My friend says “oh, looks like she needs her diaper changed”. We walk in and I almost vomited. There sat the baby in her crib. WITHOUT her diaper, and poop smeared all over the crib, the wall, her face, her mouth, her hair. YUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!! I thank my lucky stars that my girls never did THAT!

19

BeachMama said:

That is just so disgusting. I would have been joining the man who wasn’t feeling well after that. I have been thrown up on by my son and joined in on it. Yep, that puke stuff is just not for me.

20

momto3cubs said:

Eww, how horrible! Horrible for the other passengers, too! What did you all do? Quickly clean up the plane and take off on time?

Of course I’ve been peed on and pooped on and vomited on by my boys over the years, but the yuckiest for me was when a drunk passenger in the back seat of my car threw up all over me (mostly the back of my head) as I was driving, and still far from home. I just kept driving, and no one said a word. I dropped him off at his house, went home, and took a shower!

21

Christine said:

OMG! The poor girl. Other than the kids vomiting everywhere, nothing really disgusting has happened to me, but our neighbor across the street (you know my husband’s into wood working and that he uses saw blades to cut wood….see where this is going) thought he’d try to do things like my husband, my husband takes tons of safety precautions. This neighbor didn’t. I won’t say what happened, I don’t want to make anyone sick, but after a week in the hospital let’s just say his fingers are looking good. Not a pretty site though!

22
March 29, 2007
10:12 pm

this may just cure her of her germaphobia.
its all good after this experience.

23
March 29, 2007
11:13 pm

TopChamp said:

I’m lucky I think - not that much gross has happened.

Was sat on the bus at half 6 on my way to breakfast waitressing when the bloke next to me coughed.. then puked into the corner.

I just got up and got off the bus… was late but it’s better than sitting on a puke bus.

24
March 29, 2007
11:39 pm

Crissybug said:

Oh My! I have had plenty of strange things happen to me on the plane, but haven’t had someone actually throw up on me!

On my airline we have to clean the planes ourselves. I have found newspapers, and blankets filled with….well let just say some man on our plane had some fun! It was disgusting!

Was your friend able to go shower? What did she have to do? I am not a huge germaphobe, but even that would gross me out. It would suck if she had to actually work the flight!

25
March 30, 2007
12:25 am

meredith said:

Dude. Wrong. Just WRONG. He must have gotten really confused…

I just can’t top that. I don’t think I want to. Your poor friend.

oh.my.dog and she even saw it coming. Poor thing.

I could deal with my kids barfing in my bed while growing up but I don’t think I could take a stranger throwing up on me!!! Course, what would I do? Just pack it all in right then? Maybe not but it would take years of therapy and bottles of shampoo and sanitizer. LOL

27

Lonnie said:

Greetings from China….

L

28

I’m sorry but I am ROFL!

Poor girl, I would probably have thrown up on him for throwing up on me, THEN had a nervous breakdown.

Hmmm, the grossest thing? Sheesh, i have so many to choose from.

I know, sooo surprising, right! ;) I would have to say it involves food. Once as a kid, we were eating out at a Sizzler steak house and my tapioca crunched. I refused to look to see what it was… i was too afraid. i figured it was an insect of some sort though.

Another time, i was out with John and my grandparents. we told them that they had this really great place that served pie called baker’s Square, in California. I had a piece of French Silk pie… and as i chewed, well, i found something chewy. I pulled it out of my mouth, and it was a piece of finger skin. i could tell because i could see a finger print on it. EEEEEK! Both places had the nerve to ask me if i would like to try another serving. HECK NO! Gimme my money back!

29
March 31, 2007
12:25 am

Meg said:

Ewwww! That’s so gross!

I can’t really come up with only one really gross story. Working in a vet clinic for years means that I was routinely covered with poop, vomit, pee, abscess, blood, and other animal fluids. I think the worst was the time that a cat abscess blew up all over my face. It smelled horrible and I was so grossed out!

30

Summer said:

Oh. My. Gosh.

I really haven’t had anything gross happen to me. The baby spit up into my open smiliing mouth as I held her above me recently, but that’s it.

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