Thursday, January 17, 2008

overheard in the elevator this morning

Girl: Ew! Ew! O my god! I just stepped in throw up! Somebody threw up in here! I'm going to throw up! O my god! Ewww! And I stepped in it! With my shoes!

Boy: I don't think it's vomit, actually.

Girl: Huh?

Boy: Well, it doesn't have a splash pattern, the puddle is a fairly regular circle, and the edges are even. There's no splatter anywhere. For someone to have been able to throw up like that, their face would have had to have been pretty close to the floor, and the bars here make that impossible. Also, we've been in here a few minutes, and all you can smell is a faintly sweet odor. It doesn't smell like bile, or anything like that. It's probably just a drink that someone spilled. Your shoes are okay.

Girl: Whoa...

Boy: Hey, I've had a lot of experience with vomit.

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