Monday, January 23, 2006

French People Throw Up Too!!

You will never guess what I saw the other day. So I was headed to the airport to catch a flight to London for a couple of days, when I saw the grossest thing ever. I had to take the metro on my way to the airport and I was sitting across from this girl who looked like she was doing alright. Well, my stop was the next one and since I was so anxious about being on time, I decided to get up a few seconds before we got there. And it is a good thing I did. As I was facing the doors to exit (this guy was standing to my left) I heard an odd sound coming from behind me. I looked at the girl who I was sitting across from and thought she was using an inhaler. I've never seen a French person use an inhaler before and so I thought I'd watch. She makes the sound again and I realize she is gagging, while holding her hand over her mouth. I start to panic. I don't do well with vomit!!! At ALL!! And by the look of the gag she doesn't look to be having much success. I start beating on the door (and guy next to me) saying in a very quiet but panicked voice, "Let me out, Let me out" (the metro is still moving mind you; and at this point I really don't care). I glance back to check on the girl (again, I don't know why, when I know how I react to throw up, but I do) and just as I do, she spews lime green vomit in the very seat I was sitting in!!! The color of her vomit would make you change your favorite color if it happened to be lime green. I begin to beat harder on the door as the metro slowly comes to a stop. I run out of the metro, gagging, praying that I would keep everything down. What a way to start off my trip!! I just hope they find it soon and clean it up. I have no clue how often they go through the metro, but by the looks of it, not very often. So we've decided that they need to have throw up bags on the metro.

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