If you’ve never had it, you have no idea what you are missing. Imagine
your worst hangover. Now multiply it by about a million. Then stick
an
ice pick in your eye and fall down a flight of stairs while an angry
biker
beats you about the head and shoulders with a bag of nickels. You’re
starting to get the idea.
I had food poisoning. I knew exactly how I got it. After cleaning numerous
raw shrimp, I consumed finger food. I did not wash my hands between
the shrimp-cleaning and the food-eating. I was beer-drinking. I poisoned
my own stupid, drunken self. And I paid the price…and then some.
The really pathetic thing about being poisoned is that both ends of
your
body require the use of the same space, often at the same time. And
while
you really really want to put your head over the toilet bowl before
you
hang your ass over it, it’s not always practical to do so. Eventually
you
realize that it’s a moot point. Your face is exactly where your ass
was moments
ago.
So there I was, curled up on the bathroom floor, shivering, sweating,
gathering enough strength for the next round of the head/ass toilet
dance,
when it occurred to me – this bathroom was really clean. It
was spotless.
It smelled of cleaning agents. Of all the bathrooms in the world to
spend
eight miserable hours, thank God I got this one.
My beautiful, goddess wife had cleaned the bathroom the previous evening.
A few hours into the ordeal, I noticed something else. My wife had left
a large plastic cup out for me. Eventually I used this cup to take
sips of
water. Of course, the water came right back up; but still, it was nice.
Food poisoning is dehydrating.
As the hours wore on, I was able to take deeper drinks of water - drinks
that stayed down. I drank a lot of water. The cold sweats subsided.
I
was able to walk again. I was able to breathe without getting nausea
and open my eyes without pain. I had thoroughly violated the
newly-cleaned bathroom, but it was over.
The next day, my wife-goddess asked me about my ordeal. It was the
worst conversation I have ever had in my life.
“Where did you find that plastic cup?”
“Oh, I thought you left it out for me to use.”
“Dear, that’s the cup I keep the toilet brush in. I must have left it
out
when I was cleaning the bathrooms. You didn’t drink out of it
did you?!”
The toilet brush.
Dear God, I drank from the toilet-brush cup.