Coming back from Shetland once
The flight was cancelled because of fog. We had the option to stay over and try for a flight the following day, or go on the boat. We all chose the latter.

It's an overnight sailing, leaving Lerwick at 6pm and arriving at Aberdeen at 8am. It's also usually pretty rough. I had never in my life been affected by travel sickness, which is where the dumb mistake came in...I told everyone this. In fact I was boasting about it, saying how relaxing I felt the rocking motion was, etc. My mates, meantime, were various shades of green and complaining about being ill.

You can guess the rest. An hour out of Lerwick, and I'm chucking diced carrot into the porcelain. Oddly, I didn't feel at all nauseous, like I'd have imagined travel sickness would be like. It was more like severe indigestion followed by an immediate urge to evacuate my stomach.

To make it worse, not one of my friends was sick, despite their discomfort.

I still (deservedly) have the piss taken out of me to this day, and that was in 2001.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 10:58, 1 reply)

Interestingly...
Or perhaps not, what looks like diced carrot that always seems to come up when you chunder is in fact your stomach lining!

100% OF FACT.
(McDave, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:14, closed)