This is a true story by Allen Wintermute. The names have not been changed and the events occured late in the summer of '94. It was originally a posting to alt.tasteless. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Where to begin... I have a feeling you guys are really REALLY gonna like this post. You better. Otherwise all this shit happened to me for no good reason: Saturday my ExGirlfriend returns from her vacation to Mexico. I tell her that if she fucked anything but tourists while there I'm never touching her again. (In Mexico, antibiotics are as available as candy, meaning all the diseases down there are totally resistant to anything we might throw at them.) Turns out my Ex (A French girl) spent the first half of her vacation drinking like a fish and then spent the second half of her vacation puking her very underaged guts out. I spend the day poking at and teasing her and saying things like "You just need some food in your stomach! How about a nice, greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?" My Ex feels better the next day and I can't torture her anymore. =( On Wednesday I fully disassemble every single part of my motorcycle that ever so much as squeaked funny. About the time I'm ready to start putting it back together I realize if I stay in the sun any longer my flesh is going to bubble up into a greasy splattering mess, much like frying bacon. I decide to wait until dusk to finish reassembly. Dusk comes. Being the genius I am, I soon deduce that it is very hard to insert fork seals and reconnect a wiring harness in the near total darkness of an unlit carport. It's still real hot too. This sucks. I can't go out looking for 14 year olds to molest when my car is in the shop and my motorcycle is in pieces.... what to do? A stroke of genius hits like Albert Einstein jerking off: I'll invite over two friends of mine who just broke up (not telling either that the other will be there) watch them attempt to be civil to each other in front of me and then get them drunk enough to start fighting. This'll be fun to watch. My (friend?) Sean shows up first, followed by his ex-spooge-recipient, Ninette. Ninette is looking better than I remembered her. Maybe I should drink too. She could look damned tasty after 3 or 4 shots of Absolut. I offer both of them screwdrivers. Actually, they aren't real screwdrivers because instead of Orange Juice I accidently bought some fake-Orange-Juice crap called "Sunny Delight". Sunny Delight is less than 5% juice. The rest is water, corn syrup and (I shit you not) propylene glycol. (That's right: ANTIFREEZE!) Ninette gets quite buzzed and informs Sean, rather matter-of-factly that she faked all but one orgasm she ever had with him. This is getting fucking good. I finish off my screwdriver and get out some cheese-puffs to munch as I watch the sparks fly. Sean soon wimps out and mentions he should get home soon. Puss. I offer Ninette the fold-away bed in my couch to sleep on and then complain about the fact that there's only one pillow, and would she mind sharing? I don't make any moves. I'm not feeling up to it. Something uneasy in my stomach. Early the next morning I wake up and find that my stomach is really complaining badly even though it's many hours later. My mouth suddenly gets that dry sticky feeling and I realize what's happening. I stumble to the bathroom and close the door hoping not to wake Ninette. The vomit is like a volcanic eruption. Hot. Acidic. Violent. It pours out of me at pressures I still cannot believe the human body is capable of producing. My mouth can't output it fast enough and it begins coming out my nose in two tiny streams, with the huge torrent still pouring forth from my mouth. At this point the alert reader must stop and recount my diet over the last 10 hours or so: Vodka (clear), Fake OJ (disgustingly bright neon orange), and Cheese Puffs (also disgustingly bright neon orange). Yes, friends and neighbors, this three-stream tsunami of chunder was bright flaming orange. Just days previously I had thrown one of those blue-disks into my potty. The water I was hurling into was a deep blue color. Imagine if you will: bright orange vomit spilling into deep azure toilet water. The result was a tie-dyed swirl of shades of a color I believe is called puce. As fate would have it, I got my new Polaroid in the mail just the day before. I was also much too exhausted to go get it. (Sorry. I know you all wanted a 24-bit full-color Jpeg!) I took one look at the blue and orange soup staring up at me, faintly showing the reflection of my own unshaven face with trickles of orange tinted stomach acid running down my chin and lips and...."HURRRRRRRGHHHHH!!!" An encore performance ensued. When I finished, I looked at my face in the mirror. Vomit wasn't just leaking from my nostrils and mouth, but from my eyes as well, in tiny burning tears. I didn't realize it was physically possible to puke from ones eyes, but I sure as hell managed somehow. I think the vomit somehow travelled up my sinuses and overflowed my lower eyelids. I brushed my teeth as thoroughly as possible and slipped back into bed with Ninette. How could ONE measly drink make me heave? And hours later as well? I'm SCOTTISH for Bob Christ's sake! Ninette wasn't asleep. her first comment was "Shit, Allen, We didn't DO anything. You didn't need to puke quite so hard when you woke up next to me!" Ninette got up and started calling her friends in hopes of finding a ride home. I tried to tell her I was okay and that she didn't need to leave. I'm just fine now. I offered her some M'n'Ms from the candy dish and grabbed a few myself. Immediately after swallowing the second M'n'M I felt myself overcome by a bubbling tide of... uhh.... uhhh... uh-oh! Our hero goes sprinting for his porcelain idol to once again bow down before.... Ninette lets herself out, apparently deciding she could just run to a nearby payphone and call for a ride from where she didn't have to hear the constant garbage-disposal-backup-up-esque-noises echoing from the john. I felt much as if a gang of Hell's Angels had each rode their hawgs over my abdomen one at a time. My entire digestive tract was so exhausted that it could just... just... uh-oh! Throughout the next 30 hours or so, I attempted to consume a small sip of gatorade... BLEAURRRGH... Later I found some anti-nausea medication which I just dry-swallowed in an attempt to prevent me from...from... uh-oh! (HURRRRLLLLGH!) What fucking genius invented orally-administered anti-nausea medication? If you could keep it down, you probably didn't need it. Later I tried two Ibuprofen tablets with some Coca-Cola that I stirred till it was flat. The coke came spewing back up so quickly that it was still cold on the return trip. The entire period from Thursday morning until Friday evening was one long fever-clouded, foodless, sleepless, dehydrated, lose 12 pounds FAST, stupor of lying passed out for hours on the floor and occasionally waking up to vomit with such prowess it would have impressed Karen Carpenter. I think I remember somewhere in my agony trying to mold some of the vomit into a crude voodoo doll of my ex-girly who cursed me with this horrible south-of-the-border plague. The thing you need to remember here is that never during this entire period did I ever attempt to eat anything, aside from those M'n'Ms I mentioned before. So what was the ammo for all this regurgitation? Nothing. My stomach didn't care. I would just keep heaving and choking until finally I managed to hork up some stomach-acid and mucous. I was quite dehydrated from all this hurling without attempting to drink in between so some times I would ralph and ralph and ralph before anything showed up. Not that I stopped after finally getting up a little burning hot glob of HCl. I keep horking for a while until my stomach was REALLY sure. Late afternoon I wake up realizing I have work today. Good thing God invented taxis. I actually made it into work on time, still not having eaten in over a day. I wondered if I was REALLY better, so for dinner I ordered up an italian sausage submarine sandwich. I'm still at work now and waiting to see if the sub resurfaces...