Apathetic Puking.

[unholypet]

A boy and his dad walk in, get the buffet, eat about 10-15 plates each.

Boy runs to the bathroom, dad stays sat down for 20min, and then goes to check on him.

Dad gets us, two of us go and see what happened, since we weren't given any info.

Smell of puke in the hallway, and a big splotch of pink on the ground (..?) .

Co-worker and I open the door, and OH MY WORD!!!!?!!?!? The kid hurled in the toilet, ON the toilet, in the stall, made a trail in/to/under the urinal, and finished under the sink. He had apparently coughed the drink up on the way out in the hall.

This wouldn't be so bad, but the puke was his pink lemonade, various large bites of pizza which couldn't have been chewed, the desert pizza toppings and still-whole chunks of chocolate and apple, carrot sticks, a large plop of ranch, and some cheese sticks covered in pizza sauce....

Co-worker offered to clean it all up, which was very considerate.

Another hour passes, kid and dad are STILL eating, and when they do finally leave, kid hurls again in the parking lot.


Way to go, pops. Great example of parental concern,too.

[Spiffy McMoron]

I wonder if the kid was puking because he was sick, or if the kid was puking because he stuffed himself too full?

[unholypet]

Hmm..

I think he was puking because he swallowed something too big and got too full.. wasn't even pudgy, crazy kid.

[BusyBee]

sounds like maybe he was trying to be like his daddy...
if he's the kind of kid that almost hero-worships his dad, then seeing his dad get more food would have easily been enough for him to go "hey i should get more too"

[cloudiko]

oh no...what were they thinking? after puking, wouldn't you guys not want any more food? how could food be appealing after that? did the kid offer to clean it up, or apologize?

[Anakah]

Good god... Food is good in normal moderation. That's gross. The dad should've been more responsible. After the first eating binge, he should've taken his son home after the puking. Actually had the dad been responsible there may not have been any puking... The kid over stuffed himself. Too bad you couldn't make the dad clean it up. I guarantee he wouldn't let his son do that again...

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I do admit I'm hungry right after a good technicolor yawn, but usually it's from indigestion, not stuffing myself like a goose.

[Banrion]

Maybe it's just me, but after puking, I don't even wanna think about food for at least 3 days. Admittedly I have very little experience with the whole process only throwing up 3 times after the age of 2, and I only remember doing it once. Once when I was little about 4 or so, and I was Ipecacked, once when I was 17, from drinking WAY too much on New Years Eve, and again when I was 21 from some sort of death plague that I managed to catch just in time to miss Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner. The only one I remember is the death plague. Puking is by far the worst experience I have ever had. How can anyone eat after something like that.

[unholypet]

oh no...what were they thinking? after puking, wouldn't you guys not want any more food? how could food be appealing after that? did the kid offer to clean it up, or apologize?

Nope. Your typical redneck customer with son does not apologize for folly of stomach. =/

[Boozy]

That's a pretty serious eating disorder right there.
I can't believe a father would allow his own son to do that.

[SteverinoNY]

How old was the kid roughly? If he was say under 10, Dad should have been responsible for his child stuffing himself silly. If the kid was older, say a mid to late teenager, then the kid himself is responsible for how much he ate and then cleaning up the mess when up came three days worth of food.

That being said, one poster said that it was one hell of an eating disorder to be able to eat that much food. That isn't necessarily true. Some real skinny people just have an incredible capacity to pack it away. I'm not the skinniest person (5'11, 250...could probably stand to lose 20 or 30), but I can hold my own with larger people when I take a trip to the buffet.

Besides look at Kobayashi from Japan...that guy regularly eats 50 hot dogs while he larger American counterparts can't make it to 35 or 40. He's 160 pounds. I guess what I'm saying is that its not necessarily an eating disorder that makes people eat a lot, it could be they are just really hungry and can hold it all in.

[Boozy]

That being said, one poster said that it was one hell of an eating disorder to be able to eat that much food. That isn't necessarily true. Some real skinny people just have an incredible capacity to pack it away. I'm not the skinniest person (5'11, 250...could probably stand to lose 20 or 30), but I can hold my own with larger people when I take a trip to the buffet.

Do you then throw up, and continue eating?
THAT'S the eating disorder.

[Bloodsoul]

I'm starting to think that every restaurant needs to install vomitoriums in their restrooms...

[ibor132]

I remember one time at the arcade, a guy came in and played DDR so much that he threw up (he had just eaten). Fortunely for me, he was VERY considerate, and cleaned up after himself. He came up and let us know right away, and asked for cleaning supplies, which I was happy to supply. All I ended up having to do was spray the area with Lysol.

[Legal Eagle]

maybe i'm strange but i find eating after being sick helps. I'm talking baout illness sick where eventually you get to stomach lining which isn't nice, so even in all you can manage is soup it's still a hell of a lot better