PhillyMag writer is thrown up on while riding SEPTA

[mixiboi]

They die if they rode the MTA in NYC:

The Most Disgusting Thing to Do in Philadelphia? Ride SEPTA | The Philly Post

On Tuesday afternoon, a child barfed on my feet while I was riding into Center City. No warning, no tears. Just a split second and several ounces of orange vomit all over the exposed tops of my feet. Once I stopped shrieking and wringing my hands, I got off the bus and darted into Liberty Place where I washed my feet in the sink of a public bathroom and then purchased new shoes. It was one of the grossest moments of my life.

What’s grosser: This is not the first time I’ve been involved in a puking incident on SEPTA—though this time I escaped without anyone else’s bodily fluids on my skin. I was riding the Regional Rail from Jenkintown to Temple when a teenager stood up and, like a scene from a horror movie, projectile vomited all over the seats in front of him while shaking his head back and forth. If memory serves me correctly, he covered four rows of passengers and two windows. Moments later, the businessman sitting next me quietly sympathy-puked into his briefcase.

[Fishtown Phan]

I've been puked on in a car but never on SEPTA, and no, it didn't make it any less gross that I knew the person.

[Bob_Head]

They die if they rode the MTA in NYC:

The Most Disgusting Thing to Do in Philadelphia? Ride SEPTA | The Philly Post

I've puked on SEPTA, while reading a copy of Philadelphia Magazine. The realization that those no-talent hacks actually get paid to produce the dreck that only serves to separate the plastic surgery ads made me copiously and violently ill.

[NE19149]

My late father was a bus driver.
He shared a story once years ago about an incident on his bus, but it was HIM that got gross.
Apparently he loved oysters, and had some for lunch that day.
While stopped at a red light on Bustleton ave in his bus he "burped" as he called it and coughed up an oyster.
Naturally he lunged it out the bus driver's window, and it flew out and landed on a woman's lap in the car stopped beside the bus.
Apparently the woman contacted PTC (this was before it was called SEPTA) and reported his bus number/time.
And the guys at Comly Depot had a good laugh.

Sh!t happens!

[raider.adam]

I was watching a movie in the Lowes Theater in Cherry Hill. A family down the row was sitting there. You could tell one child didn't want to be there. All of a sudden he leaned over and puked on the floor. Dad picked the kid up and held him in his lap. About 15 minutes later he leaned over and puked again. Dad took him out of the theater while mom and other kid sat there. A little bit later dad and the kid came back and finished the movie.

While walking out of the theater there was puke near the door on the inside too.

So, what goes through my head was, if one of your kids is vomiting, not once but multiple times, what kind of a sadist are you to have your kid sit in public when he is obviously not feeling well.

[RittenhouseGirl]

Oh my God, this happened to me too, and I wrote about it in another thread. I was thrown up on in a SEPTA bus when I was about 19. It was some stupid toddler that did it.

And I didn't even get an apology from the mother.

I hate that people think it is cool to use SEPTA as a soundboard and receptacle for bodily functions. UGH!

How did the Avian Flu not spread like wildfire in this city?

[mixiboi]

So, what goes through my head was, if one of your kids is vomiting, not once but multiple times, what kind of a sadist are you to have your kid sit in public when he is obviously not feeling well.

Kids throw up for many reasons, besides being sick..its gross, I try not to think of it as I want kids one day.

[mixiboi]

How did the Avian Flu not spread like wildfire in this city?

Because things like this happen and we are strong for it. Next time you get thrown up on, say thank you..it may save your life.

[raider.adam]

Kids throw up for many reasons, besides being sick..its gross, I try not to think of it as I want kids one day.

I know they do. I would just think if I was at a movie theater and my kid started throwing up regularly, I would bring him home, not stay and finish the movie.

[annie]

Kids throw up for many reasons, besides being sick..its gross, I try not to think of it as I want kids one day.

Whatever you do, don't start reading STFU Parents which consistently reveals parenthood to be a ****show of bodily horrors, though it did have Philly post yesterday.

[RittenhouseGirl]

reveals parenthood to be a ****show of bodily horrors

Sounds horrible and hilarious at the same time!

[Gladys]

[QUOTE=mixiboi;483192]They die if they rode the MTA in NYC:

Exactly, get a grip.

There are more disgusting things to do in Philly than ride septa.

[randomuser]

I've puked on SEPTA, while reading a copy of Philadelphia Magazine. The realization that those no-talent hacks actually get paid to produce the dreck that only serves to separate the plastic surgery ads made me copiously and violently ill.

Cosigned.

Add the two newly subsidized city periodicals and website to that list, and well actually just add everything except the Philadelphia Tribune. Niche papers thankfully can't be ruined by people who aren't a part of it.