Sabotage!

We had a holiday lunch brought in for us yesterday by the temp agencies we do business with.  This happens from time to time, usually they have Brown's chicken and beef catered.  Free lunch, good stuff.

So yesterday they set the food up and we go out and line up, buffet style.  Aside from chicken and potato salad and rice, there was a big crockpot type thing that looked like it might contain Italian beef.  My one buddy was in front of me and dipped the spoon in, trolling for beef.  He pulled it out of the gravy and had a spoonful of...beans? 

He passed on it, but Brown's always has really good sides (remember, I was assuming this was all catered) so I checked it out and it looked like it could be decent, so I served some up on my plate.  I go into the caf, have a seat, and chow down with the crew.

Fastforward to last night.  Kinda gassy, but with the beans its to be expected.  So after the Bears game I go to bed, and within a few minutes I'm brought fully awake by what could best be described as labor pains. Seriously, wtf?  I went running to the bathroom, and after a lengthy visit I went back to bed...where 10 minutes later I found myself running back to the bathroom with the same pains.

Overall I must've gotten up 7 or 8 times.  Way too much info for you guys, but I went through a roll and a half of toilet paper between the time I went to bed and the time I left for work this morning.  I thought I was going to be late because I couldn't get out of the bathroom.  I knew it had to be those damn beans.

So I get in to work and find my boss and asked him where those beans came from.  He laughed and asked "you too?" and said one of the recruiters from one of the temp agencies brought it in from home.  WHAT??  If I had known they were homemade I never would have touched them.

As it turned out, everyone...every SINGLE person...who ate those beans had gotten sick.  Fortunately most people passed on them or we would've had a rough time getting work done today.  And I wound up making another 4 trips to the can at work as it was.  The one guy called this guy who brought the beans him to tell him he made us all sick.  This guy was like "oh no, everything was ok with them when I made them".  Um, no.  Everything was NOT ok with them, obviously.

Way to be cheap I guess.  You gotta wonder what it was that made everyone so sick.  Anyway, my day's been a blast.  I finally had to force myself to run to McDonalds to get some greasy crap to either try and plug me up or give me something to evacuate, since by that point I had what could be best described as an alternate version of the dry heaves.

Again, way too much info but thanks for reading anyway!