To have been sick...

[WhiteWidow]

In the bin at the gym

It was either that or the floor. I could have bloody died.

Not sure what the etiquette is on being sick in public but at least I offered to empty the bin.... :o

Please do tell me I'm not the only one to have done something like this ha

Only times when drunk in my younger years or pregnant :)

Nah, people are always being sick in the bins at our gym, I don't even blink when it happens now! Was it the workout?

It was a mixture of a mild hangover and working hard I think. It didn't help that it was OAP day, one woman looked aghast muahahahaha. I should have sent some spittle her way...

did it have a bin liner in or was it one of those open-mesh wastepaper bins? LOL

If you were caught all of a sudden, you had no option. the only etiquette I would bear in mind is "don't vom on other people"

feeling a bit queasy meself now

Best in the bin. DS2 threw up in the Gp's bin in her surgery. She actually offered it for the purpose.

I once threw up on a (thankfully not rammed full!) tube train - just coming into holborn station and I was neither drunk, pregnant nor ill - I just came over all queasy and for absolutely no reason, with no warning was sick on the seat next to me! Absolutely mortifying and to this day I still break out in a sweat if I think about it! Everyone just stopped what they were doing and looked at me, at the sick seat then back at me - I swear if I could have died on the spot I'd have been happy! Leapt out at the station and told the staff member I found there who, again, just stared and stared at me....god I think I need a drink now I've just relived it all!

Luckily it was one of those that are Darleck shaped, with a bag in. I honestly didn't know what to do, even after I just looked around wide eyed. The girl was dead nice though, told me to go and rest and they'd sort it. Thank the lord, don't think I'd have managed walking out with a bag of rubbish and sick

vino oh NOOO that's terrible haha. I'd have wanted the ground to swallow me up

I took a taxi journey recently after leaving hospital. The driver couldn't get me home quick enough when he realised I was very unwell.

I just managed to save it until I got out of taxi and promptly vommed in a flower pot by the front door. Felt much better afterwards

....and I keep torturing myself with "what if there had been someone sat in the seat"?! phantomnamechanger's etiquette is exactly right!

whitewidow I just cried!! Honest to god, snot, tears and vomit everywhere - I really should be in therapy

I was sick on a train once, on the floor outside the toilet. It was a sickness bug that came on quickly. I had been fine all evening, then felt a bit queasy on the train. I would have made it to the toilet but someone barged in front of me just as I was about to go in. I was mortified, and I bet anyyone who saw it thought I was drunk.

So YANBU, sometimes you just can't help it, and the bin is better than the floor!

A packed tube train doesn't bear thinking about.

When my mum was a girl someone vommed on one of thoseswing rounabouts at the fair showering the bystanders.

I was sick in m&s once in the shoe section. All over the floor! It came on so quickly that my mil nor I had any time to think. My mil bought me the shoes I was looking at though while the first aiders came over and checked I was ok! I was mortified!

• swing roundabouts

I read a story somewhere about somebody being sick in the theatre, they were sat in the front row of the circle and leant over the edge.

That just reminded me, I was on the waltzer with another girl once, and I was sick. It went allllll over the pair of us.

I went swiftly home because she wanted to batter me

A friend of ours had an illicit party while parents were away When his Mum returned the next day, the evidence was all hidden......until she found the vomit splattered all over the inside of her wardrobe

Ah don't worry. Maybe it's just my gym but there are bins everywhere and they specifically say "the bins are here,here and here if you are sick"

I thinks it's actually compulsory to throw up on the waltzers at least once in your life not that I ever have and I think admitting anything else after tubegate would be excessive

Well done you for the presence of mind. Not nice seeing people with puke splurting out between their fingers. Would have flicked the granny the V's personally but I am uncouth and usually spew on me shoes. Sad but true

Two of the occasions in my life I am most embarrassed about involve vomiting in public.

Once in Hong Kong, having just arrived, on a packed bus from the airport I just threw up everywhere (I was 21 weeks pregnant, but just looked like I had a spare tyre so no sympathy from passengers, except for one lad who offered me a packet of tissues)

The other time was last year after going to Thorpe Park. I'd been feeling a bit iffy after going on one ride 3 times in succession because there was no queue. My friend dropped me off at the station at 5.30pm on a Friday, and while I was buying my ticket from the machine I suddenly couldn't hold it in any longer and threw up into a carrier bag, with all the commuters giving me filthy looks, assuming I had had one too many. (One too many rides, yes. Drinks, no)

Much better to contain the sick in a bin!

I've been sick at the gym. It does happen if you work too hard, I'm sure they're used to it. I actually barged striaght into their staff only loo which happened to be right next to me. But arguably that was worse than using the bin.

Hope you're ok.

YANBU... Better there than on the floor or equipment! I had a horrendous moment during peak hour rush at Green Park one morning (not pregnant or hungover!) where I started to feel ill on the tube. That awful sinking feeling where you've suddenly got too much saliva in your mouth. Fortunately we pulled into the platform and I managed to squeeze off past the hordes of people to the back of the platform and was sick into my opened out copy of the Metro. Now that was an act of desperation (and hand-eye coordination) but at least it didn't go anywhere else. In those days they still had the plastic bag-style bins on the platform so I could dispose of it, but the looks of horror/pity from some of the people on the platform has always stayed with me. Containment is the key!

Hope you're feeling better soon...

My friend threw up into the hood of her jacket. Unclipped it and binned it with awe inspiring elegance. Packed tube to boot.