Barfing in NYC
Allison and I were in New York City looking at apartments on Saturday. All was going well and we were enjoying the very hot and humid day. We went to Brooklyn to look at another place and had some time to kill so we were sitting in the park reading. I fell asleep with a mild headache and when I woke up, my head was pounding with a terrible migraine. Not only that, but I was feeling somewhat queasy.
We decided to go get a bite to eat before seeing the apartment and we found a cute little cafe. While sitting there, I suddenly felt as though I was going to throw up and I bolted for the bathroom. I did in fact barf for a while in the bathroom. When I returned, I took a sip of my smoothie to get the taste out of my mouth, but that made me feel sick again. I ran to the bathroom, but someone was in it so I quickly turned and ran out to the street. I sat on a bench outside the restaurant and barfed some more. Quite a bit more actually. And people kept staring at me and asking me if they should get me help. When I finished barfing out there, a man asked me if I needed help and I stammered, "My friend...she's inside...someone was in the bathroom...I had to come out here...I'm really sorry..."
After I sat with my head down on the table in the restaurant for a while (while Allison read a book), we left to go see the apartment. It was really nice and I managed not to barf while we were in it. Then we left to catch the F train back to Chinatown so we could get back to Philly ASAP. But while waiting for the subway, the lovely subway smell triggered another round of barfing. It was coming out of my nose and mouth and splattering all over my feet and legs. Disgusting!!! The people around were lovely and offered me some tissues and body spray. Then, we moved a few seats over and away from the barf. A mom with a few kids came down and they were standing right near it. Then she saw it and quickly moved her kids away while all of them were saying, "Ewwwww, that's sooooo gross!!!" (they weren't around to see the barfing episode so they didn't know it was mine).
I managed to keep it under control on the subway and didn't barf on the bus either. But I had an eventful day of awkward barfing in the city. Now that I feel better, I find the situation quite funny.

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