have your DC ever wreaked major havoc on an unsuspecting stranger?

[♥ms.pacman♥]

as in, thrown something at another person (at a restaurant, on a plane,etc), spilled/ vomited on stranger, or such?? just wanted to hear others stories, so i don't have to feel as bad/embarrassed.... :p

this monday, the last day of our vacation was our first "incident"...long story short, thanks to DD, while we were eating breakfast in the dining hall of a conference grounds we were staying at.... cranberry juice was spilled on the back of this really nice young lady's WHITE fleece jacket. when it happened, i could tell DH just wanted to die, he was beyond mortified. he must have apologized a dozen times, and immediately offered her money to get it cleaned/replace it or whatever. i felt horrible too, bc before i had kids, i would have been obviously pissed if it had been me, i mean, what if it was a really expensive $500 item that was ruined, all thanks to my kid..it really isn't fair if you think about it. but the lady was pretty nice about it, which sort of made me feel even worse in a weird way!

for bakcground, we were staying at a cottage on a conference grounds (were vacationing with a couple friends and their kids). there is a breakfast in a cafeteria-like area, which is buffet style, kind of like in a dorm (you have to get up and get your plate of food, and drinks, etc). the tables were extremely close together (it was a *hassle* just getting BJCMD through). the day the spill happened, at our table there were 5 kids under five and only 4 adults (eek, right). so it was kind of hard because we all really to take turns with people getting food and watching/feeding kids. I can normally count on DD being really good and just sitting in her stroller but that day she was fussing so DH was holding her. i was going to get more juice & food but DH said he could go and get it while holding DD in one arm. well, DD has good head control but sometimes she just throws herself back while being held, and it just so happened that while DH was squeezing by this other table to get to ours, DD threw herself back and caused DH to spill the glass of juice he was holding.

anyways, we felt horrible afterwards, but at least that was the worst of it during our vacation. i swear, this is another thing that makes travel with kids so hard...with long flights, having to eat out, it seems a full time job to make sure the kids don't spill or throw stuff at unsuspecting people... (with DS, we've thankfully successfully intercepted a few forks thrown at restaurants, once i stopped him from grabbing some lady's bottom....ugh)

[Uno-Mom]

I am familiar with the type of conference spot you describe. Nobody would wear a $500 fleece in a crowded eating area like that. :) But I realize you said that to express how mortified you felt, not because you literaly thought it was that expensive...

Really and truly, that stuff happens and almost every person understands that. This isn't a situation where you guys acted irresponsibly, letting small children run wild or anything. Even pre-kids it would not have occured to me to be angry if this happened to me. Especially not in a busy crowded location like you describe.

[elektra]

When we were on vacation earlier this summer, we were having what was supposed to be our "last night out" nice restaurant dinner before flying home the next day.
Well DS was saying that his tummy hurt and he kind of groaned after he took a long drink of milk. He was also being a little fussy and so I decided to walk him up to the front of the restaurant. Well half way there, I heard something drop and felt something splash against me. I first thought DS's water bottle fell out of the diaper bag but when I looked back there was a huge splatter of barf down the middle of the aisle. I too was mortified, and said a quick "sorry" and then ran to the bathroom as DS continued to barf on me. Somehow not much barf ended up on him but I had to clean myself up quite a bit. Then when I was in the bathroom the lady who was sitting right near the barf came in. Some of it got on her! So we were cleaning up together in there while I was apologizing profusely. She had a little boy with her too and she said she totally understood.
And I had just ordered one of those chocolate molten cakes and I had to just leave it there untouched because I could not just go back into the restaurant and sit down and eat after what had just unfolded. I am still bummed about that cake!

[lalasmama]

DD puked on the conference grounds host/caregiver. But she asked for it. I mean, she was babysitting, she fed her, then let a teenager spin DD on the tire swing. What did they think was going to happen?!? :ROTFLMAO: Thankfully, we casually knew each other, and she had raised 3 kids into their teen years... it didn't even affect her. She laughed as she told me about it, and didn't call me to get her early or anything. But I was definitely mortified that DD picked her of all people to puke on. I still blush and apologize when we run in to each other, 4 years later!

[niccig]

DS peed on his preschool teacher when he was potty training. She was carrying him to have their class photo taken. I was mortified. She told me it wasn't the first nor last time it would happen.

[katerinasmom]

Last year while trick or treating DD2 wasn't really sick but she was a bit congested and one of the other kids accidentally knocked her down a short step. She got scared and started to cry. The crying made the congestion worse and she started gagging on her phlegm. She's a puker so as soon as she started gagging, I knew I had to get her calm but I was too late. She puked all over my cousin's neighbor's front stoop. Luckily she didn't hit any person except herself but I was mortified. And I didn't know what do to first - clean up DD or run back to my cousin's house to get a bucket of water to clean off the stoop. I brought DD back to my cousin's house and asked my aunt to clean her up while I ran to get some water to wash down the stoop. By the time I had gotten back to the house with the bucket of water, the neighbor had already started washing it down. They were super understanding about it and just asked if DD was ok.

[mmommy]

I would've blamed my DH for this one, not DD. Yep, insisting on carrying a small fussy child and cranberry juice = spillage. I can totally imagine my DH doing that, and I would consider it him wreaking the havoc. :rotflmao:

I've been thrown up on by someone else's DC on an airplane. It was before I had kids of my own. I was grossed out, but obviously it wasn't intentional. The mom was really embarrassed and apologized repeatedly. The flight attendant helped me to clean up.

[DietCokeLover]

I caught DS's hand within milliseconds of grabbing a handful of uncut wedding cake at a recent wedding we were at! He was running full force at that cake and no telling what he could have done to it!

[BabyBearsMom]

Forget kids, I have done stuff like that as an adult! A few years ago, I was in Cuzco, Peru. The altitude is really high there. We flew into Cuzco early in the morning and rested until 11 because you are supposed to sleep to let your body acclimate to the higher altitude. Then my friend and I went on a tour of the city. We were walking up the steps of a church and the tour guide was saying "this is the most beautiful and sacred church in all of Cuzco!" and as he said that, my legs started to feel like jello. I suddenly found myself sitting on the stairs and everyone was staring at me. My friend was trying to talk to me and see if I was okay. Then out of the blue, I threw up all over her and all over the steps of the most beautiful and sacred church of Cuzco. I was mortified but also too sick to care. Everyone was really nice and they helped me clean myself and my friend up and put us back on the bus to rest. But it was embarassing. At least with a kid it is expected, an adult, it is just gross.

[lowrioh]

I don't have a kid story (yet) but when I was a waitress in college I knocked over a bottle of red wine onto the lap of a customer who was wearing white pants. I was mortified and apologized profusely. The owner obviously didn't charge them for the wine and comp'ed half their meal. They were very gracious and actually left me a very generous tip.

[m448]

I was at costco during the holiday season with my then 2 1/2 year old eldest and the couple of months old baby in the sling. Oldest was riding in the cart and the one second I had my eyes off of him he spit at a lady that was walking by us. Oh my word I just about lost all breathing right then and then then profusely apologized to the stunned woman and beat a brisk pace out of that place. The whole walk out was "we do not spit at people, only in the bathroom sink." I was mortified as there's really no invasion of personal space more profound that someone's bodily fluids launched at you.

[MMMommy]

DD1 puked right in the middle of a Brazilian Churasscaria, one of those Brazilian meat restaurants where the waiters walk around with big spits of roasted meats and slice them onto your plate. We were done with our meal and actually leaving the restaurant when it happened. I felt so bad for the diners and for DD1. I'm sure it made a few diners lose their appetite and wonder if they would get food poisoning that night from the food!

[HIU8]

This happened with DD 2 years ago. We were at the grocery store and she was carrying an empty basket. She knocked into a lady who literally started yelling at me that a child had not right to carry a basket and I needed to keep her restrained. She actually went to management who really just laughed at her. I said sorry and maybe ishe should consider becoming a nicer more tolerant person.


An incident happened at WDW when I was a kid. My brother accidentally stepped on a mustard packet and got a little girls jacket dirty. It was an accident. My parents handed the family $$ to cover cleaning it (overkill b/c it could just go into the wash--it was a windbreaker). Anyway, the dad got really angry and punched my father. Security had to be called and the family was escorted out of the park (my parents said they thought he was drunk).

[ha98ed14]

I don't have a kid story (yet) but when I was a waitress in college I knocked over a bottle of red wine onto the lap of a customer who was wearing white pants. I was mortified and apologized profusely. The owner obviously didn't charge them for the wine and comp'ed half their meal. They were very gracious and actually left me a very generous tip.

It was an accident that could have happened to anyone, so this is not directed at you, but I think the owner/ manager should gave comped them their whole meal.

[GaPeach_in_Ca]

Well, I personally knocked over my beer at a NBA game while talking with my hands and it spilled right onto the person in front of me. The man with her was very angry, yelled, called us drunk, etc. I wasn't drunk, I just knocked it over, but we did make sure to go the opposite way as them after the game.

See, not just kids! :)

[crayonblue]

Well, I was at MOPS and a friend asked if she could hold Carmen. Poor Carmen pooped and it was diarrhea (very common for her...I think the last two years of her life were only diarrhea) and it went all over my friend's pants. I was MORTIFIED. My friend was very, very gracious and we went to the bathroom and cleaned both Carmen and my friend up. I called later to apologize again and she laughed and said she got home and completely forgot and hadn't even changed yet. Sweet friend. :)

[hellokitty]

Well, I was at MOPS and a friend asked if she could hold Carmen. Poor Carmen pooped and it was diarrhea (very common for her...I think the last two years of her life were only diarrhea) and it went all over my friend's pants. I was MORTIFIED. My friend was very, very gracious and we went to the bathroom and cleaned both Carmen and my friend up. I called later to apologize again and she laughed and said she got home and completely forgot and hadn't even changed yet. Sweet friend. :)

Similar situation here, except it wasn't diarrhea, it was BF poop. One of my friends was holding DS3 and he leaked out of his diaper and got BF poo all over her pants, lol. Luckily, she was wearing dark pants and had a sense of humor about it. I felt awful, but I know that she knows that it was just an accident and no biggie. My friends' babies have spat up on my plenty of times before, and it never bothered me. I wouldn't care that much if their diaper leaked on me either, stuff like that just happens.

[lfp2n]

Not kids but cat mortifying accident- when I was a kid my mum had a neighborhood party. There was a snotty woman we didn't know well who showed up in a fur coat. All coats were put on my parents bed, when the lady came to leave and put her coat on our cat had done a huge smelly pee all over the fur coat. No idea why it was a trained outdoor cat. Coat was ruined, even after professional cleaning and it was all really embarrassing. The woman was really horrible about it. I'll never forget even though it was more than 30 years ago and I' m always careful where I put guests coats!

[MamaMolly]

Lula barfed in a hotel lobby. We were waiting for the elevator and she started projectile vomiting and I could only stand there and let it happen. We were so far from the door that she'd have left a slime trail if I tried to run outside. There was a really nice older couple waiting for the elevator and the gentleman held the door for us and insisted we go up first, even though they had it on their shoes. I cried they were so nice about it.

Same trip we were in a restaurant and she was sitting on my lap and had diarheea all over both of us. It was dripping down my leg. I went to clean her up in my sister's rented mini van and though I had a change of clothes for her I was planning to sit in the car while my family finished eating. My sweet (and VERY large) BIL came out and literally gave me the shirt off his back :heartbeat:. He had an undershirt, and it fit me like a dress.

People can really be nice in these situations.

[Gena]

Here's just two of ours:

When DS was 10 months old we took a road trip to visit DH's extended family. DS threw up and had diarrhea at a rest plaza on the turnpike and it was a huge mess in the food court and then in the family bathroom. It was all so gross DH vomited instead of helping me, which made a bigger mess.

When DS was 3, I took him to my friend's bridal shower, which was being hosted by her very upperclass, snobby co-worker. DS vomited all over the bathroom floor and all over himself. Luckily the hostess gave me some of her kids' old clothes that they were going to donate "to the poor". I was completely mortified.

[Gracemom]

My DS is a very big boy. We were at the zoo and there was stadium type seating for a bird show. My DS tripped getting to his seat and fell on an older lady in front of us. DS was crying, I apologized profusely, asked if she was OK, and fretted about it the whole show. I noticed her rubbing her shoulder and I thought we were going to have to pay her medical bills. After the show, I apologized again, asked her if her shoulder was OK, etc. She was so gracious about it and said she was fine, but I still feel really bad about it.

[EllasMum]

*I* wreaked havoc over an unsuspecting stranger just this morning! It was the first day of school, and the parent council put on coffee/donuts for everyone outside. I added some cream to my coffee and then leaned over to toss the almost empty creamer into the garbage. My aim was off, and the creamer bounced off the side of the garbage can and splattered all over the person behind me in line. I was *mortified* and immediately handed her a bunch of paper towels, apologizing profusely. The mom just laughed and said, "Well, if you didn't do it, I would have eventually!!" Oh, man. She was very gracious about it. Whew.

Another incident, this time done by my dad. He had taken my little brother to a minor-league baseball game. They were sitting halfway up the (small) stands, and my dad spied a packet of mustard sitting on the floor. In a fit of immaturity, he decided to stomp on it just to see what would happen. He says he figured it would go sideways, and there was no one sitting around them for 10 or more seats on either side. So, he stomps... and the mustard shoots straight FORWARD and, to his mortification, my dad sees mustard on the jackets of about 4 or 5 people in the rows in front of him! He said he was SO embarrassed, but no one seemed to notice. He said later he did notice some lady spying the mustard, looking confused, and then grumpily wiping it off. My dad said he just sat there and glanced innocently around. :innocent: He hasn't been back to that stadium since. :rotflmao: