What's the most uncomfortable food spillage you've ever experienced?

[bertha katzenengel]

Me? I spent the last two hours with sweet potato chip crumbs in my cleavage. Too busy to go clean up.

How about you? Was it due to food spilled on you? Or due to the circumstances (i.e., your child dumped her plate of spaghetti on the head of a nearby diner)? Or were you a waitron with an overloaded food tray? . . . .

[medeak]

1. does passenger on cruise boat vomiting watermelon on head count? n/t

[bertha katzenengel]

8. What once was food is no longer once it's been regurgitated --

unless you are a cow or rabbit.

But that's certainly uncomfortable, and you have my shuddering sympathies.

[barb162]

26. ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod, what did you do

did you run to your room asap and shower for 3 hours?

[medeak]

27. no... being codependent asked her if she was ok...and told her

to gaze at the horizon to cure seasickness

[SoCalDem]

2. I dropped a FOUR POUND jar of apple jelly onto a tile floor

It was a miracle I was not "glass-slivered" to death.. I was finding sticky pieces of glass for MONTHS..

The real question?... WHY did I ever BUY a 4 lb jar of jelly? It was on sale, and it's our favorite...

Now I buy the 10 oz variety:)

[Midlodemocrat]

3. When I worked in marketing waaayyy back when,

everyone in the department was at a sales meeting and our department went to a Mexican restaurant to eat. The waiter was standing behind my boss with a tray of margaritas and they started to spill on her, one by one by one. It was like watching a slow motion film.


Pretty funny, too, cause I never liked her. She was incompetent.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Spewing coke across the Xmas Dinner table

Directly onto my grandma's face. :blush:

Nothing like twelve pairs of eyes drilling into you and then looking at the ruined Xmas turkey still dripping coke.

I still can't remember what made me start laughing to begin with...

:banghead:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Was about to eat a can of tuna before a business meeting when

the water from the tuna can splashed all over my slacks. I knew it would smell so I walked into the meeting (with 5 other men present) and said, "I spilled tuna, so if you guys smell fish, it's me!"

Needless to say they all spit coffee all over their meeting minutes.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. I wouls say that would be...

The teapot of boiling water dumped on my stomach.

Oh well, the dilaudid they gave me at the hospital was nice. Not so the third degree burn.

[progmom]

7. mine involves a spill on someone else

In 6th grade, the school chorus got to take a trip to Albany to sing for the governor (poor Cuomo!). We got a tour of the government buildings, and then were fed lunch. Midway through the meal, someone told a joke, and I did a chocolate milk spit-take all over Nicole Davis's pretty white dress.
She cried. :cry: :(

[hfojvt]

9. dang it, that is distracting

let me remove it for you. :evilgrin:
I once dumped a full glass of water in my lap just as I was sitting down. I just sat there and laughed about it though. I was more upset when the beer vendor spilled some of that alcoholic horse pi$$ on me. He did not like it either when I wiped my arm off on his pants.

[bertha katzenengel]

21. Heh. This cleavage is spoken for, but you can have the crumbs.

:evilgrin: right back atcha. ;)

[scarlet_owl]

10. My sister was working in a drive thru and spilled a

42 ounce orange soda on the person who was parked at her window. I spilled applesauce all over a customer once when I was a waitress.

[Mutley]

11. I dumped a whole tray of salads on a customer when I was a server

Needless to say, I'm not a server anymore.

[5thGenDemocrat]

12. Working as a waiter on Mackinac Island (MI), 1983

Dumped an entire pitcher of beer from my serving tray dead square into a customer's lap. I mean a bullseye. Needless to say, I didn't get a tip.
John
Wasn't expecting one, either.

[progmom]

15. that reminds me of my days waiting tables at Denny's

My coworker was flirting with a guy while holding plates of food that were on their way to another table. As I watched with horror from the other side of the room, an entire plate of spaghetti slid off the tray and onto the customer's lap.

Oddly, they started dating soon after that. :shrug:

[dolo amber]

13. Is beverage spillage allowed?

One New Year's Eve when I was waitressing, I had an entire tray of gin and tonics dumped over my head. I'm talking like...8 drinks. I hate gin. :cry:

[bertha katzenengel]

17. Did you hate gin before or after this incident?

My sister got wasted on tequila while pulling an all-nighter making her best friend's wedding dress. Now she can't be near a margarita without wanting to vomit.

[dolo amber]

22. I never much liked it...

but that certainly sealed its fate. Come to think of it, that's probably where my massive aversion to limes came from as well. :think: :puke:

I can certainly feel for your sis...I (as most do at some point in their youth, I imagine :D) also had an episode with tequila. It's been only in the last few years I can tolerate it, and then it's *only* in margaritas. :shrug:

[Left Is Write]

14. Spilled coffee on myself in the car, on my way to a bar.

Fortunately, the coffee was not 200 degrees (it was from a Kwik Trip convenience store).

However, it was warm enough to be uncomfortable, and then as it cooled, it was wet and heavy and uncomfortable on my jeans (the spill went the length of my thigh from hip to knee). AND it left a big ugly stain on my jeans and I didn't have time to go home and change.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. When I was 12 years old, I spilled a quart of milk onto the table.

The family was at breakfast, and I had just opened a fresh new quart of milk to put on my cereal.

Our chairs were of the kind where the lower back is exposed, the upper back supported.

Just then, our cat came into the kitchen. As was his wont, when he wanted attention or food or to go outside, he would pat the back of our chairs with his paw. He did it with me that morning and he must have had his claws out at the same time because I felt it. The sudden surprise had me dropping the milk carton onto the table, spilling the contents.

We "exiled" the cat to the cellar for the rest of the morning.


:rofl:

[bertha katzenengel]

18. He knew how to get his milk!

:bounce:

[marbuc]

19. I tripped

and dumped a big bowl full of raw scallops (and the foul smelling juice) all down my front side while working in the seafood dept of a grocery store.

[In_The_Wind]

20. an explosion of coffee flavored simple syrup

The plastic gallon jug had pooched into an uncomfortable shape overnight - as I was removing the screw on top to relieve pressure the top exploded :hide: into the air covering my stockroom (and me) in the sticky stuff :grr:... I became well known in Carvel corporate headquarters for saying "Find out what caused this problem before it happens again. I don't like being sticky with my clothes on!"

[LeftyMom]

23. I had a peice of bacon flip up and stick to my arm

when I was taking it out of the pan. It wasn't really embarassing it just hurt like hell and I swear I smelled like breakfast for days.

I'm so glad I don't eat meat anymore, I've never had a peice of tofu leap from the pan and burn the shit out of me. :)

[bertha katzenengel]

24. *blink* (everyone must read this)

:rofl: I swear that's the funniest thing I've read all day! All week: :rofl:

:rofl: :cry:

Thank you, LeftyMom!

[yewberry]

25. Oh, I have a few.

*A long time ago, waiting tables at a corporate shop, I dropped a cake on a kid's head. A whole chocolate cake. The kid was maybe three. There was a moment of silence as the little one looked around at the group to see how to react...Then (happily) they all burst out laughing and the kid joined in. (Whew!)

*Same job. I was stocking salsa in the walk-in refrigerator and dropped the 10-gallon bucket on the floor; the splashback was tremendous. (Side note: our uniforms were summer-weight white button-down shirts.) I had to stay in the walk-in until someone was able to bring me some clothes. Brrrr.

*Once discovered a scoop of ice cream in my white butcher-style apron. How'd that get in there?

*Maple syrup all down my front...then five more hours of brunch shift.

*More coffee on me than I care to remember (please, try not to gesticulate wildly when your server is behind you) and splashes galore from back-flushing finicky espresso machines.

I'm sure there's more. Occupational hazard, you know?

[Bullwinkle925]

28. Well - can't really claim that it was 'spillage' - but it was the day

I threw a glass of milk in my sister's face.
Sigh - wish I could take it back - and wish she could be back with me.

[Ariana Celeste]

29. I was broke, and all I had to eat

was a frozen thing of salisbury steak.

I microwaved the sumbitch, my stomach growling ever louder as the seconds ticked down.

And then, upon taking it out, I dropped the whole thing on the floor.

So I had to mop up the juice/sauce stuff up with a towel, and throw it away. Damn my clumsy hands.

[LizW]

30. In 1962, my little brother lobbed applesauce across a restaurant

into a lady's high, beehive hairdo. Mom and Dad about lost it, and we had to finish quickly and leave.

It was at the one sit-down restaurant in our small town, and we couldn't go back there for a long time.