Going back many many years ago..
two unrelated incidents-
taken home made fish (new jar) paste and salad sarnie to work with me.
ate it at my desk (we were allowed) durin late morning. Less than two hours later, uncontrolled vomiting into paper waste basket and simultaneously weeing and liquid shitting through my clothing and into office swivel chair. My head felt like it was going to explode and I was sweating copiously.
I was wheeled unceremoniously to the “ladies”, where I changed out of all my clothes into black plastic bin bags. I was taken home in a colleague’s car, and all the way, my insides were gurgling BIGtime and scaring me into praying that I wouldn’t damage colleagues car seat.
Gee… that was majorly horrid. When I was recovered enough a few days later to return to work, no one said a word… and my ruined office chair was nowhere to be seen.
other embarrassment was meeting up on a blind date on a freezing cold night at a pub. When I walked into the warm atmosphere, my eyes and nose tickled like mad, but I ignored it and carried on regardless.
my “date” was chatting away to me, when I finally had to excuse myself to go use the ladies, as I wanted to avoid a runny nose, ugh!
I got to the loo just in time to see blood pouring from my (never ever had one previously) nose.
so I spent a good ten minutes desperately trying to stem the flow.
I sat back opposite my date, and held a clean tissue close to my nose… just in case.
he carried on yakking away, and suddenly he stopped mid sentence and said “oh my god, your eyes are bleeding”….. I had successfully stopped my nose from bleeding, but I guess it had to escape SOMEwhere, so it was running out of my eyes.
gee, he said that he thought my head was gonna swivel off, and me turn into an alien!!
never saw him after that date…. not surprised really.
it didn’t help that was wearing contact lenses, and had to pop those out at the pub table 🫣
thank goodness that both happened nearly thirty year’s ago, but the embarrassment still makes me 😬 cringe.