Two weeks ago, I went on an 8-hour car journey (for a holiday) and for the first 3 hours, so far so good. Then, my daughter says “Dad, can I have my iPad?” I say “Aren’t you queasy with it in the car?” She then insists no, so I obliged. She was watching YouTube kids with her headphones in when she vomited (just after our food stop) down my back. The vomit ran down my shirt while the next service station is 50 miles away. When we arrived at the service station, I could not get it out. So we continued on. However, even with her iPad taken away, she vomited again down the open window and it all went in the crevice where the window goes when you put it down. When we arrived, the vomit had dried on my shirt, my back and the seat and the other vomit was still in the crevice. I had a shower and scrubbed the vomit off of the seats using a paper towel and water. I then took the car to a car wash who better cleaned the seats and the carpet. A bill of £130. They tried to clean the vomit from the crevice but failed. They said to go see a mechanic. Due to me being in a remote village in Scotland, there was no mechanic nearby so I had to make the 42 mile drive to one. They dismantled the door and cleaned the vomit from the crevice. I got a bill of £230. I got back to the hotel at around 9:30 pm. I had missed dinner. So I had to order room service for myself at 10:00 at night and quietly eat it to not wake up the others. I also f ed up by not having the vomit bags readily available.
TL;DR: My daughter asked for her iPad on a car journey, vomited down my back and the crevice where the window goes, the mechanic dismantles the door, mechanic and car wash charge me £360 in total. All my fault due to not having vomit bags readily available.
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You didn’t know your child got car sick?
You didn’t bring vomit bags when travelling with children?
The iPads not the fuck up here
may not have been the ipad. sometimes, especially after fast food, kids just get nauseous and don’t have the experience to do anything about it but vomit.
In the world of YouTube, you couldn’t open up your door yourself? Could have saved yourself the 230 right there.
Next time just keep a bucket between their legs, or ideally tape an emesis bag to their face. A space or diving helmet also works if you have one
Weak ass parenting, the answer is “No, you are not throwing up all over my car.”
Why didn’t you just pull over and clean up a bit?
You have a kid and don’t have a “woops bucket”?
Do you have access to Bonine or Dramine? Those help with motion sickness. I use Bonine and start taking it 24hrs before a motion event: long car ride in the back seat, long train or airplane ride.
Giving your kid her own iPad sounds like your first mistake.
All my kids get car sick. I’ve cleaned the same car seat twice in the past two weeks.
For road trips we use audio books or listentoamovie.com
Whoa, that’s quite the tale of woe. Eight hours in a car with no backup plan for kid barf? That’s a whole lotta crappy luck! I’m not trying to be harsh here, but dude, it’s 2023, you should know better than to hit the road without some basic supplies. A few plastic bags and wipes wouldn’t have hurt. Now look at the state of your car AND your poor kid after that ordeal
As someone who is easily car sick, can’t ride in the back seat for more than 5 minutes. Poor kid road trips suck.
That’s nothing—my president just vomited all over my economy and now I am out thousands of dollars at least, along with 300+ million other people. Such are things when you let children have what they want.
As a 33 year old woman who still can’t even look at my phone in the car – as a passenger – without feeling yucky, I feel for your daughter.
My OH maintained that our middle child (now 5) didn’t have travel sickness like me, it was just a coincidence when he puked on longer journeys the first 3-4 times. It wasnt because he was hungry or the car was too hot or looking down at a book/ screen – classic triggers of travel sickness – but because he’s obviously coming down with something.
Fast forward to a drive down to Legoland a few years ago, OH cranks the heating up cos it’s November. Says we’ll get maccies breakfast at the next services instead of the one on the way to the motorway (I’d given the kids a small breakfast before we left). Then he gives them their Nintendo Switches. We’d been on the road 40 minutes before I looked back and saw the colour drain out
Of my sweet boys face. Even with a puke bag at the side of him, he still wasn’t fast enough and he covered himself, his carseat, the footwell and the back of his dad’s seat in puke.
It took us 3.5 hours to get to Windsor once we’d cleaned everything up and found some food, we froze our arses off driving with the windows down, froze our arses off for 7 hours in legoland then got back in a car that still smelled very strongly of vomit, perfectly preserved almost because of the minus temperatures, for the 2.5 hour drive home.
He does now believe that one of our kids gets travel sickness but it was a hard lesson for OH to learn. And you, too by the sounds of it 🤣
Listen, I got car sick all the time as a child on long road trips. My parents eventually started getting me Dramamine to help. Why didn’t you get your child, who knowingly gets car sick, a motion sickness medicine to help?
Do you smoke ?
I had a mate who smoked , his parents smoked in the car when he was a kid and … he kept telling me stories how his puppy would throw up in the car constantly, then his first kid , then his second kid , as the kids got older one mentioned mum and dad smoking in the car .
Smdh. That explains all of the throwing up.