I’ve been feeling sick, then started barfing at work.
I had doubts making the 45 minute commute, seeing as I was still feeling sick.
Well, with 20 minutes to go, the urge swelled over really fast. I didn’t even have time to pull over. I did, however have time to grab the plastic bag I keep for garage. Unfortunately, about 75% still landed in my lap and sprayed my steering wheel.
Thankfully, my stomach was mostly empty at that point, so no grose stuff to deal with.
I ended up continuing the ride home, not wanting to chance a stop and having the urge return.
When I got home, I sprayed the pleather seat with windex but really didn’t do a good job cleaning it up (bending over in that state is not wise).
I really hope it doesn’t smell in the morning. That was not a fun ride home!
Ugh, I’m so sorry. The same thing happened to me a few years ago. It was wintertime, and despite my grabbing a plastic bag, about a fourth of the barf ended up on my lap (I was wearing an overcoat). Fortunately it all came out in the wash.
That sucks. Frankly I am surprised I have not done this yet. I get sick to my stomach pretty often (at least by comparison to others I know). I have only thrown up in a car as a passenger, so far. And always out the window or in a bag, never on myself. Feel better.
That sucks, man. My SIL would throw up in her car all the time while she was pregnant. She kept a bag in the car and just anticipated it. I am way too violent of a puker to be able to do that and not cause a wreck. Glad you are ok (other than pukey).
Once when I was pregnant, I threw up Grape Nuts in my car. A word of advice- do not attempt to cover up the smell with cheap knock-off drugstore perfume. It doesn’t help, your car will always smell like vomit, Grape Nuts, and cheap knock-off drugstore perfume, and for years just the thought of the combination of smells will make you nauseous.
Okay, your car probably won’t smell like Grape Nuts, but the other two- yes.
I used to get sick in my car routinely when I was on a different medication for my seizures. I’d start vomiting for a couple of hours about 3 times a week, usually on my way home from work. Wish I’d known then to have a very large, sturdy plastic cup in the car. They come in really handy if you have to get sick in the car - they don’t collapse.
Sorry, man. Happened to me one night as a delayed reaction to hydrocodone ( taken for a kidney stone earlier in the day ). I almost made it home, but a half block away from my driveway, basically spewed out the driver window. Like you, I was about 75% successful in my aim :(.
A few weeks ago I felt really unwell. Food poisoning of some kind, though I still don’t know exactly what from.
I decided to leave work early, and took the train. Ordinarily the whole journey from door to door is about 90 minutes, which by my estimation would’ve been enough time before vomit was inescapable, but for some reason* on that day the train was delayed by 15 minutes, halfway through the journey while I was on board!
Which meant before the journey was over I had to rush off the train and vomit in public all over the platform.
Needless embarrassment and awkwardness which could’ve been avoided if the train wasn’t randomly delayed*.
*Apparently it was due to a disabled lady who struggled to do something or other that didn’t make any sense or was fully explained to any of the passengers, and the train driver was being irritatingly selfless and accommodating
When we visit my in-laws, the last part of our route takes us through a very mountainous, twisty-road area. It’s not uncommon for one of our three sons to become carsick and need to barf along the way, so we always carry a small plastic garbage pail, like you’d have in the bathroom. Easily dumped and then rinsed. It’s come in handy… far too often.
Buy some small trash can liners. Even easier to dump. Plus you can seal up the bag and not deal with the odor. Plastic grocery bags seem to always have one or more holes in them, so they aren’t ideal for this purpose.
I remember driving along a road that paralleled the Arkansas River once and had my 4 year old daughter in the front seat. Apparently it was too much for her because, from the back, my wife asked “Is that puke dripping on my feet?” My daughter looked at me, completely astonished, and said “Daddy, I just opened my mouth and my tummy came out!”
My folks and I once went with my mom’s best friend to the Golden Temple in W. Va. I sat in the middle, in the back, next to my mom’s friend’s son. He was about twenty, and I was thirteen or so, and had a huge schoolgirl crush on him.
Well, about halfway through the trip I threw up all over his lap. I was humiliated, and he was so kind.
They didn’t make me sit in the middle anymore, that’s for sure.
When I was pregnant and having morning sickness, I went to a party supply store and got a sleeve of 32-oz paper cups. I kept one in a cupholder in the front seat of my car at all times, in case I needed to vomit. This often happened with very little advance notice. The cups don’t collapse like bags sometimes do, and 32 ounces was generally big enough. The cup of vomit could then be thrown away (ideally in an outdoor trash can), no washing required. If vomiting is something that happens frequently in your car, you might want to consider doing something like this.
I was humiliated, and he was so kind.