While I can't compete with vomit, I did end up handling a customer complaint about a staff member till 9pm last night. And if what she says is true (and unfortunately, I believe it is) -- I have to fire the girl. Blech.

Hmmm...no vomit, exactly,(mucus) but if you go to my personal blog and look back on Sun 1/14 and Mon 1/15 you'll find some hospital stories that rival your restaurant stories and I was wearing Crocs. Power to the sisterhood. You know the difference between hotels (my food background) and hospitals, right? None. They're both big buildings with lots of rooms and people need stuff. It's all the same sh**, really, when you get down to it. :-)

OMG! What do you say in a situation like that? I can't imagine. I am a sympathetic vomitor,,,,if I see or hear someone vomit then I am compelled to do the same. Not a good thing.

I hope he is ok and can one day come back to your fine establishment without embarassment. Yikes.

oh deary me! this sounds like the noro virus which i have had to try and contain when i was matron of a large establishment for elderly in the u.k. my change of shift nurses were only in the building for 45 minutes , presumably healthy before clocking in, and having to send them home again.as one by one they started projectile vomitting. yes it is an airborn pathogen and contact with a few affected patients set off a series of events you would not believe. the answer? confinement of the affected and bleach bleach bleach. everything in sight even the cockroaches and ants!!! just kidding about the latter. norovirus is no joke- to wit cruise ships. it isn't the ships -it is spread by people. unfortunately it is so sudden onset that folks feel quite okay , unsymptomatic even, just prior to the vomiting , hence why it is so easily spread. be sure to boil those crocs!!,
luv jan

Oh ick. Oh ick. Oh ick. It is one thing to witness vomit in any form, but quite another to have it on your person. Exponentially ickier when you weren't the source of the vomit.

I don't believe I'll be eating the rest of the day. ICK.

um.... EIW!

I second the norovirus comment above. Bleach everything the guy came in contact with. It's highly contagious.

Sheesh. This makes your little browser problem seem like a minor matter, huh? I mean, I'd rather be locked out of my blog than have vomitosis on my shoes.

Of course, any given week, I get both. But the people barfing on me are almost always under the age of five and really cute.

And not, like, full grown male strangers. Poor you!

Your RSS feed isn't working :( It hasn't registered an update since before Xmas... I came looking to see if you were okay :)

Baked a smashing gingerbread and smashed a bottle of molasses doing so. glass was no problem. But the molasses ... you can't imagine. It ran. Down the counter. Onto the floor. And under the oven. The worst thing in the world to clean is molasses; it barely moves, let alone lifts up. However, after reading your story, I realize there are even nastier things to deal with. You get the scotch, I'll get the straws.

That would be hard to see and then try to eat if you were sitting at a nearby table. Yuck. I'm a nurse and have seen some gross things but not while I'm eating.