Funny Things You've Done to Avoid Seeing Someone Get Sick

[Jill in Apartment 413]

I remember one night I was staying with my rents and my sister had a friend over (She was still living with mom and dad at that point) and I was trying to get to sleep. My sister and her friend went into the bathroom, and next thing I know the toilet is flushing every five minutes. Somehow my brain equates this to someone t*u. I raced out of my bedroom (Completely topless) and ran down the stairs as I was pulling a t-shirt on. Luckily no one saw me, and even more luckily, no one was v*ing, they were just being annoying! >.<

[grenadexhopper]

I run away from people being sick. I also purell my hands 24/7, don't touch my face with dirty hands, and avoid anything that has the potential to make me ill. :/ It's sad... and really annoying.

[marycontrary]

So my husband has never been a big drinker. He goes straight from slightly drunk to completely sick. He doesn't always v*, but he has, and it always makes me nervous when he drinks anything other than beer.

At any rate, when I first moved in with him, about 6 years ago, we only had one bathroom in our tiny loft apartment. We also had two dogs who were indoor trained because the closest grass for them to go on was a couple blocks away, and they're fairly small weenie dogs (they go in a litterbox lined with what we call "Puppy Pads," which we dispose of when they get used). Well, one particular night, my husband and I had been drinking, and he went into the bathroom saying he didn't feel well. I freaked out, of course, put the TV on loud and tried not to hear anything. About an hour later, I REALLY REALLY had to pee. I mean, REALLY had to pee. I was pretty sure my husband had fallen asleep on the bathroom floor, but I was very scared to wake him up, in case he got sick because I had disturbed him. So... I peed in the litterbox.

This is but one of many lengths to which I have gone to avoid dealing with my fear.

LMAO!!! I had a similar experience at my old apartment. It was about 3 years ago. I was dating this guy who liked to over indulge in a alcohol. One night he had waaaay too much and said he was going to t*u* and went into the bathroom. I only had one bathroom and I really had to pee. I knocked on the door and asked if he was ok and he said he was not coming out anytime soon so I peed in a small tuperware bowl and poured it out outside, then threw the bowl away

[skydart]

If I can't get away from somone throwing up I put my fingers in my ears and hum, I find myself doing that a lot, even during a movie LOL. Anyways, hope to hear some stories....

Hahaha, my main method. Sometimes I'll be watching a movie with my friends and they'll put their hands over my eyes. My friends are pretty considerate, and they know if they feel n* to run the hell away from me.

[itzxsarah]

Haha I've done all of these, especially closing my eyes plugging my ears and singing to myself. I have something like a v* radar, my friend sometimes gets car s* so when we go on trips together I always watch her to make sure she's okay, and if she likes moves at all I ask, "Are you okay?" To the point where she's like, "Oh my god! I'm not going to v*!" If someone's about to throw up I dash, I run as fast as I possibly can. Also, whenever I watch a new movie I ask someone who has if there's v* and to warn me when the part comes. By the way, who does every movie have v* in it now? It's not funny at all, it's just disturbing.

[paradiseaddict]

Okay peoples.. everything you have all mentioned.. I HAVE DONE. Every single one. I have no chance

[andee]

I have peed in the kitchen sink when hubby was in the one bathroom having a colitis attack and sick too. I was pregnant to boot!!

Another time I was getting ready to check out at the grocery store and I heard a clerk tell another to clean up outside the exit as some kid got sick...I panicked and was freaking out about how I would get out of the store. I couldn't just stay in the store forever...so I mustered up the courage and closed my eyes and pushed the cart out soooo fast. Then I washed my sandals when I got home. Phew, what a close one!!

[barsoapjr]

I never go around alcohol, amusement parks, concerts, any place with lots of kids. EVER. I learned my lesson after going to the zoo. I also don't recommend any kind of college nightride buses.

I went to my friend's house for the first time, and I knew that she was kind of a hippy and lived with a lot of people so it wouldn't be super clean. Little did I know, they had a party the night before and someone had been sick in all the bathrooms...which I used. ): When I got home, I washed my hands all the way up to my elbows and purelled my feet because I was barefooted.

[clarync8]

probably because my cousin doesn't hold alcohol well, whenever she comes over and drinks she spends the night in the bathroom. from my room i can here the toilet flush every now and then throughout the night, and i know its becaused she just v*ed :P
so, EVERY night i hear the toliet flush, i immediately assume someone was sick. either i won't leave my room for the entire night no matter what, or i will crack my door and yell out "is everything ok?". i'm sure i annoy my family haha

and one time i was staying in a big hotel with a lot of people, and i hear this horrible gagging hacking noise. i immediately assumed v*, shut the door to the room i was in and sat in there for HOURS, too afraid to leave. then someone comes in looking distressed and hurriedly looking for a towel, and i totally freak out. another few hours later, someone comes looking for me. they ask why i look so mortified, and i ask who got sick. they say no one did.

turns out the hacking noise was my brother coughing weirdly on purpose (and he did have walking pnemonia at the time) and the towel was for someone who spilled a soda. haha i confined myself in a tiny room for around 6 hours for no reason!

[catlobster]

I have tons of stories of my "avoidance tactics". One of the more embarassing ones was when I was on a plane, and I was really anxious. I'm in my seat, ipod on, trying to relax, but the guy next to me (I was in the aisle seat, he was middle seat) just didn't look..."right". I was convinced that my worst nightmare was going to come true (being trapped on a plane with people v*ing...anyone ever see that House episode? Its like they tapped my nightmare reserve to make that episode. I turned it off and have never watched the whole thing). Anyway, out of the corner of my eye, I see him reaching into the seat pocket and taking out what appeared to be a white bag. I flipped and tried to bolt, only to have my seatbelt restraining me to my seat. I was wild eyed with panic, and my fellow passengers were like, what on earth? I asked if he was getting s*, and they looked at me weird...I sat back in the seat and slowly looked at my seatmate...he got his bag of gummy bears out of the seat pocket. I felt like an idiot, but I explained what I had thought was happening, and my fear, and we happily chatted the rest of the flight.

The other story is what my husband refers to as "pretty cat". We had gone to bed, and he said he wasn't feeling well. I proceeded to panic, but fell asleep. Woke up in the middle of the night, he wasn't in bed. I assumed that he was down the hall in the other bathroom doing his thing...so I did the earblock-hum thing for at least 20 min...and he still didn't come back to bed. By this point I was shaking with nerves (and my ears hurt) so I went into the bathroom in our room, turned on the light and the fan (to block out noise), and sat on the floor with a book. The cat came in to join me and parked on my lap. Another 20 min later, the husband finally pokes his head in, and asked me if I was ok. I asked him if HE was ok, and he looked at me confused. Apparently, he couldn't sleep and went to the living room to doze on the couch. So when he tells this story, he always warps it so that he finds me on the floor holding the cat, petting it and rocking back and forth chanting "pretty cat, pretty cat", in a psychotic state. True love.

[Ggirl]

wow these are all really interesting, mine would probably jumping out of a moving car, and nearly jumping out a window.
I remember a year ago, i was in the front seat of my mums car, my little sister was just learning that she could stick her fingers down her throat and make her self gag, i totally freaked out and yelled at her to stop, but she just kept doin it and laughing at her self. mum thought it was hiliarious of course but i made her stop the car and i got out.

[abbi]

LOL, some of these made me lmao!
Two years ago, my mum caught noro two days before Christmas >.< Some emet has rubbed off on my sister, and we both really needed to use the bathroom where mum had gotten ill... we took turns peeing in a quality street tin.

[raven928]

when i get paranoid, or like if someone in a movie may get sick, i stick my fingers in my ears, close my eyes, and pretty much roll up into a ball and tilt over. Until someone shakes me and says its okay, i will stay like that cuz im scared its still going on. It seems stupid but when your in the moment you will do ANYTHING to sooth your fears.

[raven928]

Hahaha, my main method. Sometimes I'll be watching a movie with my friends and they'll put their hands over my eyes. My friends are pretty considerate, and they know if they feel n* to run the hell away from me.

You are very lucky to have such good friends. Sometimes my boyfriend get so fustrated because im so particular about things he just gets so mad and tells me to get over it already. Its especialy hard to make NEW friends who will be willing to accept me with this crippiling phobia. I dont go to clubs cuz people drink and u know what happens when people drink. So its hard to have a good social life with this fear.

[Peter]

Fortunately for me I knew he was clowning but I had a comical looking friend who could play a good 'drunk' and he'd pull this stunt as if he was holding back being ill on a crowded elevator. With no place to go, the panic on the people's faces were a riot especially when it was the express elevator before the doors opened- they couldn't get out fast enough.

[abbi]

It was my cat getting sick. It was under my sister's bed, I didn't even have to walk by it, but I jumped out the window!

[Peter]

Our Mr. Whiskers is trained to go outdoors (just kidding).

[zoëgirl]

Luckily I haven't really had to see it happen too much. But one time my mom's friend was in hospital because she needed surgery on her neck following a car accident, so my mom and I visited her and when we walked into her room she was lying there holding one of those bags they give you if you're going to v*. So I immediately stared out the window with my iPod on full volume and while we were there she offered me some chocolate that her family had brought for her and I refused to eat any.
I've ran away from my dog too when she was v*ing. Even though I knew I wasn't going to catch it.
And at summer camp one time I broke my finger playing volleyball. So I went to the infirmary to get it wrapped up and the nurse wasn't there so I had to wait and while I was waiting this little kid comes and waits too and he's clutching his stomach looking miserable. Then he says that he v*d on the way to the infirmary. So I get up and sit on a bench near the infirmary. Then he starts v*ing and I run away so fast that I almost tripped over a tree root. I never got my finger wrapped up until that afternoon, so I'm just walking around with my finger hurting really badly.

[DoonDoon]

Haha! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who plugs their ears and either hums or sings "lalalalala!" while it happens. Fortunately, the only v*ing that I experience semi-regularly is done by cats or dogs in my house... but still, I have to plug my ears until its over.

One funny experience: Once, while riding the bus to my middle school, a girl a few seats in front of me said she felt sick. I had headphones so I turned them all the way up and hoped that we'd make it to school before she was ill. Unfortunately, we didn't make it. I saw her dry heave a few times and knew that it was going to happen. Sure enough, she v*d all over the back of the bus. The stupid/funny part is... everyone but me moved to the front of the bus for the remainder of the ride. I didn't. I sat there, frozen in fear, because I absolutely could not get myself to step over the v*. When we finally got to school 20 minutes later, the bus driver had to open the emergency door at the back of the bus so that I could get out!

[Jusagi]

I actually have a huge problem with hearing someone get sick (as well as seeing it or getting sick myself).
And once when my boyfriend and I had our friend over at our apartment for some drinks, my boyfriend said he had to go to the bathroom to "poop". He was in there for a long time and I started to get really nervous. I was afraid he would be sick and that I would hear it. I kept talking to my friend about it, saying things like, "Do you think he's sick?" "What if he's sick?"
My friend kept trying to reassure me that it wasn't the case, and suggested that we step outside so he could have a cigarette. I ended up staying outside for hours. I sent my friend inside every once in a while to check up on my boyfriend. It turned out that my boyfriend was actually slightly sick, (and lied to me so that I wouldn't worry) but it wasn't bad, and it was just because he felt a little dizzy. After hours of standing outside nervous and shaking, I finally worked up the courage to go back inside (after having my friend check to make sure my boyfriend was no longer in the bathroom). It turned out that my boyfriend was completely fine again.
However, I still didn't get to sleep that night. Haha.

[aferneb]

I do what mostly everyone else does..... close my eyes, plug my ears, and hum haha

[hopefulmonster]

Ok I've phoned my elderly grandparents at 2am so hysterical that my younger brother was ill and my dad was shouting at me to go upstairs and help him (seriously dad?!?) that they drove 24 miles to pick me up and let me sleep at theirs.

I've jumped out of a moving car because of my grandads puppy getting motion illness (ok, it wasn't going fast so not all that impressive haha)

I've slept in the garden, in the rain, wearing only a dressing gown and socks because my boyfriend was home and ill.

I can't believe I'm admitting this but I weed in my own kitchen sink because my boyfriend was ill and no way could I go upstairs in the bathroom even though he was asleep, just in case. I still wonder if the people in the house opposite got a good look at my bum through the kitchen window *blushes*

[Help Me Please]

I jumped out of a moving car once when someone v* in the backseat... Maybe that's not actually funny but yeah...

i'm sorry...i just cracked up.

[Help Me Please]

I don't have any very funny stories but once in the fifth grade these two boys who were good friends decided, at lunch time, to make a 'potion' which was just them mixing their lunch together. one of the boys took a whiff, covered his face with his shirt, and then vomited all over the table. we had to move to the other table for the rest of lunch and the boy got cleaned up and i sat down at the table, and he (pretty sure he had a crush on me) sat down next to me, like, 'hey'. i SPAZZED OUT. I RAN out of the room having a panic attack, and the boy was staring at me like, 'what the fuck...?' so then I later hear him talking about 'this girl who had a panic attack' when he threw up.

Also, in the same year I believe, I was on the bus, and my friend was talking to me, and all of a sudden the whole bus gets quiet...and i look over to this girl sitting across from me, and she's making gag noises, but not as in she was going to be sick, but she was disgusted...because another kid already threw up. When I got off the bus after they cleaned up i still jumped over the spot he threw up on.

Err...when a kid said he felt sick in class, i started crying and asked the teacher if i could move.

[flightotc]

I've done the whole cover ears and hum thing even if it's just on tv, haha.

Once a bunch of us were at a friend's house playing a drinking game that included stripping, when suddenly someone's like "what's that on the floor by ****?" turns out it was v*, so I book it upstairs and on to my friend's patio wearing only a bra and jeans, and stay there till the mess is clean...and then I went home. Classy.

[nurseysclone]

The funny thing is, I identify with most of the stories here. Recently, I had a really bad asthma attack and needed to go to A+E. I was just starting to feel better when a man a few feet away started to violently and quite loudly v*. I immediatley burst into tears and started yelling "I want to go! I have to get away from here! I want to go!". My friend is a nurse and he said afterwards that the man sounded like he was being a bit too dramatic about it, but that in A+E the most common complaint is abdominal pain and as a result, v* is common there. I'm really freaked out about hospitals now! Plus I'm going on holiday soon, do I have to worry about being on a plane because of v*? I already avoid boats and cars because of motion sickness. I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts! Sophiex

[x...RaChE...x]

^^^^^
No you really dont have to worry about planes! Honestly, Ive been going on planes every year since I was 6.... (im 14 now) and not once have I gotten sick on a plane nor seen anyone else get sick on a plane... and I have to sit next to my sister who gets extremely carsick, but shes fine I think some people do get motion sickness on plane but it's quite rare and planes are big so it'll be far away... also there's medication that people take if they have motion sickness so I really really doubt it would happen, I used to spend so much time worrying about the plane crashing that v* didnt event enter my mind. lol. Hope you have a good time on holiday

[adriana0281]

wow, i seriously thought i was crazy until i found this site. it's good to know i'm not alone on this. anyway, the funniest thing i've done to avoid someone blowing chunks was to jump out of the shower, naked. my cousin and i had a loooong day at the park where we ate a wide variety of food. when we made it back home i decided to jump in the shower and as i was half way done shampooing my hair, i heard the door open and a gag that sent this overwhelming fear throughout my body. i opened the shower curtain to see my cousin sitting on the floor with his head in the toilet. i booked before i could even turn the shower off. my parents sat in the livingroom and just laughed at me because of the drastic measures i was willing to take just to avoid vomit. it was just crazy! oh, and that night i made sure he slept on the bottom bunk even though he swore he wasn't gonna throw up again. haha.

[belle08]

I've had to deal with a lot of avoidance at school, on one occasion in a lesson(in which I had no friends with me and was bullied) there was a boy who kept coughing and said he was going to be ill, I just announced to the teacher that I had a dentist's appointment and walked straight out halfway through the lesson. Luckily for me the teacher thought i'd had enough of being teased and didn't mind me leaving.

[Jusagi]

The funny thing is, I identify with most of the stories here. Recently, I had a really bad asthma attack and needed to go to A+E. I was just starting to feel better when a man a few feet away started to violently and quite loudly v*. I immediatley burst into tears and started yelling "I want to go! I have to get away from here! I want to go!". My friend is a nurse and he said afterwards that the man sounded like he was being a bit too dramatic about it, but that in A+E the most common complaint is abdominal pain and as a result, v* is common there. I'm really freaked out about hospitals now! Plus I'm going on holiday soon, do I have to worry about being on a plane because of v*? I already avoid boats and cars because of motion sickness. I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts! Sophiex

That sounds awful!!
(I know I'm kinda straying from the thread here, but to answer you, many people take Dramamine for travel and stuff. If you're worried you should take it to, because it's really ok to take even if you don't think you'll have any problems.)

-> And to make this post more relevant, a story i have is that one time my friend's cat was sick and i ran away from it and the whole family thought i was nuts. But an hour later I discovered that they were nuts because I ended up stepping in the mess that the cat made that they still hadn't cleaned up!! yuck.