But at least it ran 90 minutes long

[james_davis_nicoll]

That work shift certainly featured more projectile vomiting in the audience than is ideal.

Comments

[patrick_morris_miller]

Okay, you can't just leave that sitting there.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Audience member got sick, left a long trail of puke. I got to help clean it.

[voidampersand]

If it was drink, whatever. If it was norovirus, I hope you had bleach for disinfecting the mess, and wore gloves, or at least washed up thoroughly afterwards.

[james_davis_nicoll]

No bleach but I had gloves and an apron, plus I was masked.

[jessie_c]

Way back in the before times I used to be a Skytrain attendant. BC Transit always gives free rides on New Years to encourage people who drink not to drive.
So, one frosty New Years Eve, there I am, at Nanaimo Street station at about 1:30 in the morning watching the last few trains of the evening come through on their way to New Westminster. A train rolls in and stops. 8 doors open up, 8 heads stick out and throw up copiously on the platform, 8 doors close and the train rolls away, leaving me with 8 puddles of fresh vomit gently steaming on the freezing tiles.
Very luckily, our Management had anticipated this and provided all stations with a huge barrel of kitty litter which we could sprinkle over.
That was such a fun evening.

[bolindbergh]

Impressive coordination.

[patrick_morris_miller]

It's like a Busby Berkeley film shot in Hell.

[magedragonfire]

I'm impressed they all managed to hold long enough to get into the station and didn't lose it en route. Broadway to Nanaimo has that big curve and a couple of sway-y sections.

(That said, maybe there were more than the eight, and woe to the unlucky people who had to clean that car after it got back to the yard?)

[jessie_c]

They always scheduled in extra cleaning staff in the service yard on New Years. Amazingly they got all the trains back into service by the next morning.
A year or three afterwards, they ripped out all the carpets and installed plastic resin floors. I'm guessing that the carpeting was discovered to be a Bad Idea (tm).