#WeekendCoffeeShare: First Weekend Home

Published on by Yinglan

If we were having coffee, I would tell you good morning and thanks for joining me for the first 2017 weekly chat hosted in the U.S. For real, if I’m not mistaken, the last coffee chat hosted in the U.S. was on December 31, 2016. Anyway, I would tell you it’s been quite a boring and uneventful week. The weather had been rainy, gloomy, and cool and I have absolutely nothing to do. Let’s just say the airplane ride home was the most exciting thing that’d happened this week. The ride was interesting.

I remember the last time I visited China in 2005, on the plane ride back, a slight turbulence caused my CD player to slide and knock over my orange juice which made the ride rather sticky. This time was worse than spilling orange juice.

About an hour into the flight, lunch was served. I choose the vegan meal which is pasta with tomatoes, cheese, and mushrooms. I decided to try the cheese (the thing that looks like butter) because it was New Zealand cheese and I’ve never had cheese from New Zealand. Anyway, the meal was quite good for an airplane meal or maybe I was hungry from not eating breakfast.

Another hour later, after ascending into the clouds, The plane began to sway left and right and rock up and down. Bad turbulence, ugh. My stomach had also started to churn. I felt like the barely consumed food was coming back to haunt me. I grabbed a sick bag and immediately everything came out at once, so fast I couldn’t catch it in time. Ew!

As the plane swayed, I made my way to the restroom. I was a mess. I got vomit on my shoes, shirt, and pant legs. I smelled terrible and there was even vomit on my cheeks. The vomit didn’t stop there. Before I could help myself, the sink was filled with a puddle of vomit. Double Yuck!!!

After what felt like an eternity, the plane stopped rocking and my stomach subsided. Trust me when I say I was surprised as anyone because this was like my third time to puke in my 25 years of existence.

After dousing my face with warm water and cleaning my shirt and pants with some paper towels, I made my way back to my seat and turned on the light to assess the situation. Crap! My backpack was full of vomit. Ew! I’ll have to wash that when I get home. It looked truly gross.

I checked my watch – just over 8 hours to go before reaching Seattle. With the paper towels I took from the restroom and a bottle water, I tried my best to wipe away the vomit on my backpack, at least dull the disgusting scent of vomit. Then I went back to sleep until I was woken up when the plane rocked again. Fortunately, I didn’t puke again but I couldn’t sleep anymore. So I turned on a movie.

About three hours left in the flight, I peeked outside the window and saw the prettiest sunrise. It was like someone had taken red and yellow paint and painted a line over the Pacific Ocean. People around me began waking up and the rows in front and behind me began to peek outside as well.

A movie and a half later, the plane began to descend and I got a look at the islands near Washington state. I suddenly wished the movie I was watching to quickly wrap up so I wouldn’t have to watch the entire thing all over on my connecting flight to Salt Lake. Fortunately, it wrapped just as the plane touched the ground.

What can I say about my connecting flight? Nothing. I fell asleep the instant the plane took off. When I woke up, I was incredibly surprised to see the neighborhoods north of Salt Lake below me.

Lastly, if we were having coffee, I would thank you for joining me and boy oh boy, am I glad to be back in low-humidity weather.

20 thoughts on “#WeekendCoffeeShare: First Weekend Home”

  2. The trip home sounds horrible. Half you had something to occupied your mind. Sleep help to settle your stomach. Winds are strong like 25 -35 mph and it from the north. We may not get out forecast of 70°Fahrenheit.

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  7. I’m sorry you got to sick. Plane washrooms suck to begin with, being so small, so not too much chance of staying clean if you really have to throw up a lot! Hope after the plan landed you were able to clean up and change in the airport.

    This isn’t as bad but I was up all night once ( at my high school grad after grad party) than had an early flight to Mexico. I was so tired and had been holding a hot chocolate in my hand. Then I feel asleep without knowing it and hot chocolate dropped all over me, pants, shoes, shirt, bag everything. I hated being such a mess the entire plane ride.

    Much worse for you though, being as well vomit smells worse and that would suck.

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    1. Fortunately, I asked the attendant for some hot wet towels and got a lot of it out mid flight. Ouch, I feel bad for you, that hot cocoa must had been scalding. I think spilling on oneself is worse than vomiting because you can often tell when an episode of vomit will come on.

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      1. It was hot, not scalding, but I smelt like all sweet but not in a good way and I was all sticky until we got to the airport and I could change. I’m glad you had hot towels 🙂

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  8. That has to be one of the all-time worst flights ever. Were you lucky enough to have the seat next to you empty or did you have to worry about offending someone? How glad were you that the remainder of the flight was less vomit-y?

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    1. I agree, it was the worst flight I’ve ever been on and unfortunately, the flight was completely full but fortunately, I was sitting next to a very nice gentleman who didn’t mind letting me go to the restroom. I was super glad after the vomit and I welcomed the sleepiness with open-arms.

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