Car redecoration
This may or may not be a repost. I'm sure I have recounted this one before but I'm not about to trawl through six years of posts to find out. Apologies if you recognise it.

Many years ago. I drove with my Dad up to Nottingham from London to visit a cousin for a few days. We had a lovely time, chatting with the family and having a look around the area. Before we left we visited some Robin Hood thing at Sherwood Forest. It was a hot day, and stupidly, I wasn't wearing a hat.

Because of that, I got a bit of sun-stroke which didn't make itself felt until we were halfway home. I began to feel a bit rough so I let my Dad take over the driving.

Part of the way down the A14, I realised I needed to be sick.

"Dad, can you pull over? I need to be sick," I said.

"In a minute," said my Dad.

"No, I need to be sick now," I replied.

"In a minute."

Knowing my stomach better than he did, I had no other course of action than to open the window and throw up. There I encountered the laws of aerodynamics.

Sick leaving a vehicle moving at 70 mph doesn't actually leave the vehicle very easily and, in fact, returns. My clothes and face were covered in my own vomit so was the ceiling of my car and part of the back seat.

Some even splashed my Dad on the driver's seat, causing him to say, "steady on" like I had done it deliberately.

I had to sit for another hour covered in sick until we got home. I had to be sick again out the window in the meantime but this time he listened and slowed down enough for me to open the door safely.

I think the worst bit was that I was too ill after that to clean the sick out of the car for a few days. My dad, probably quite rightly but I didn't think so at the time, didn't want to touch it and so the sick was left for a few days to fester in the heat. I was aware of it but could do nothing.

Luckily, when I was able to clean the car interior, it had all dried up so it wasn't such a hard job as I thought. A bit of work with the hoover and some upholstery shampoo and you'd never have known.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Fri 8 Jan 2010, 11:50, 3 replies)

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(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 8 Jan 2010, 12:00, closed)

click for "steady on"
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(harrumph, Fri 8 Jan 2010, 17:52, closed)

Eg-fucking-zactly!
The "steady on" just reminds me of Wallace from Wallace & Gromit! Well done sir!
(Captain Sensible "I'll be your animal in a yellow plastic bin", Sat 9 Jan 2010, 18:14, closed)