to wonder what on earth goes through some peoples heads?!

[Bogeyface]

My friend works at Aldi, his first customer of the day threw up all over the place, the till, the conveyor belt etc. She said afterwards that she had been ill all day but had to go out as she had no food in and thought she would be alright for a short trip.

Really?! She was so ill that she threw up and spread her germs around an entire supermarket yet thought this was ok? There are no houses in the area around there, and she would have had a corner shop much closer so if she was desperate, why not go there?

WTF is wrong with some people?

Nothing. In their minds. Selfish.

Well that's pretty disgusting, however maybe she did need food and had no one to help. Maybe she couldn't afford the corner shop prices (if there was one nearer).

I doubt she did it on purpose - have a bit of sympathy

She had no food in, and, one can only imagine, no-one to help.

And it would have been OK if she'd thrown up in the corner shop where your friend didn't work, and spread germs there?!

It sounds like the person was in a pretty unhappy situation. Sorry, but I can't work up a decent outrage over this.

I doubt she's feeling that great about it. Being sick in public isn't on most people's lists of top things to achieve

That's so disgusting. YANBU, OP.

I've once had DD1 throw up all over Debenham's cafe. She was sick once in the night. She ate breakfast (normal sign of nothing wrong). I had DD2's 20 week scan, no babysitting, DH in Germany.

This was 12 years ago, I'd never heard of the 24hr let alone the 48hr rule. Had never used childcare.

I was very and avoided that cafe for years

Ha I can so beat that. When I was a checkout girl in the days when they let teenagers have saturday jobs, one dear old codger died on my till.

And I still got stopped pay for accidently running two bills together.

I threw up on the escalator in debenhams when I was a child. It disappeared before mum could press the stop button... I remember it extremely clearly, I think mum must have been totally mortified...

Not very nice for anyone but I feel sorry for the ill person. Maybe they really did need food. Not everyone has a corner shop- we don't. Our nearest food shop is 18 miles away!

I threw up on the train recently, at someone's "Oh my GAWD" feet. Unfortunately the hypo came on quickly and I wouldn't have made the toilets. Other passengers were very nice and I didn't see any hand wringing threads on mumsnet about it. Ach well.

Presumably the lady in question thought she'd be able to manage a trip to the shops (no one chooses to be so dramatically and publicly sick?). And maybe she really was stuck for help.

I've been to the supermarket when I was ill and probably contagious (though not vomiting) before. Because I lived alone with a toddler and there was no milk or food she would eat. Lots of 'friends' knew I was in this situation, but they were middle class mumsnetty types and not a single one of them offered to help by bringing food, then probably went and bitched behind my back about how 'irresponsible' it was of me. Have a wee think about how many times you've offered to fetch essentials for the single mothers you know locally before you start bitching at people.

dear old codger died on my till.

Were you that bad?

Madame thats awful :(

But she knew she was ill! She would have had to either drive or taxi to the place as it is nowhere near a bus route. Whereas a dash to the corner shop for a loaf and some milk is far more manageable. I was a single mum with no support and have had to do this, but no way would I have gone to a supermarket! Its bad enough that sometimes you have no choice but spread your germs, but none of you see the issue with her potentially infecting a supermarkets worth of people as opposed to one person in a shop?

What happened to the MN line about people with compromised immune systems? That was the first thing that entered my head!

I threw up in a pharmacy as I went to collect medication after leaving a doctor it happens it certainly was not intentional.

But she wouldn't have done it id she thought she couldn't manage it. Presumably.

ahem, maybe the sight of my angelic 15 year old face was the last thing he wanted to see on his way to heaven!

Actually I was pretty crap. But these were the old stylee tills where you had to have finger muscles the size of small tree trunks to strike the keys.And there weren't actually any functions per se.

(ha ha 1979)

many illnesses are contagious before they are symptomatic, if you are going to catch grollies you are going to catch them. Yes, horrible day for your friend, yucktastic, but no one's fault surely

Actually I would prefer a supermarket where I can be sure the staff are properly trained and supplied with top grade cleaning stuff.

Its like being a childcare person. No on actually LIKES changing other people's children's nappies, but you just get on with it.

And I speak as someone who had to toilet a child with SN at 8 years at work.

And where the shop is, no matter where she came from, she would have passed at least 2 corner shop type places, and a tesco express. So limiting the amount of people she encountered.

I get very very ill whenever I get tummy bugs, I dont know why I think it is just my weak spot. When you have been so ill your doctor wants to admit you for a drip, then sympathy with someone who knowingly and deliberately goes somewhere that they know is busy when they are ill and contagious tends to dry up somewhat.

Well she obviously didn't realise how sick she was. If she had she wouldn't have gone to Aldi. I don't think anyone plans to throw up in Aldi do they?