I find TMI very useful especially.....
when you pull a sickie at work.

The whole "I've got a dose of vomiting and the shits" excuse had been done to death in the supermarket I used to work in. However I used it at least every 3 months and never got questioned...why? TMI

We had a manager who would try to embarrass staff on the shop floor after they came back from a dose of puking and shitting by asking you about it...in front of customers. He tried it with me but I simply replied with such gems as:

"It was horrible, like squirting burning hot acid from my arse and it was so runny it soaked the paper and my fingers went right through it"

and

"The puking was worse, like throwing up gravel and i kept making this noise *insert impression at full volume*, over and over, some even came down my nose there was so much of it...and you know that vomit smell you get in your nose after you puke? well....." and so on.

So it had the added bonus of never being interrogated about sickies again and customers didn't ask me for half a pound of mince very often either.
( Bamboo Steamer, Tue 11 Sep 2007, 1:42, Reply)