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I asked my fellow emetophobes this question in our support forum the other day: What is your silliest or most humouristic memory related to this phobia? The response was quite amazing. Listen to this;

"My friends covering my eyes as i walk around the house (house party) because someone was chundering everywhere 'marco polo'..."

"Having to leave a NYE house party because people were being sick - got to the point where no room was safe! Was upstairs in a friends bedroom having a chat when someone started in the bathroom, they had to manouvere me down the stairs because I couldn't look, then got halfway down the stairs and they saw someone had done it in the kitchen doorway which was facing the stairs, I literally felt trapped but luckily I had some great friends who were trustworthy enough to get me into a 'safe' area! I rung in that new year in bed watching some crap on telly while trying to calm myself down!"

"Lying in bed with my husband, he was asleep and I was watching a movie (one that he had already watched). Suddenly he jumped up and shouted, "BLOCK YOUR EARS AND CLOSE YOUR EYES!"
Which I did without question...
Turns out there was a V* scene at that moment. I love him for being so aware of my phobia, even when he's half asleep!"

"Fake 'phobic events' are always quite funny, for example my friend was having a coughing fit then all i hear is a splat.
*Oh my Christ!* ...I shout in a quiet common room whilst shutting my eyes, I open my eyes just to find out someone just dropped some water on the floor."

"Hahahaha the fake ones are the best!
I was driving in my car today when I looked on the side walk and saw a man hunched over with his hands on his knees! Immediately my heart beats double time and I start to panic! Of course you can't look away! On closer inspection I realize he's looking down a drain pipe in the ground and that he's simply a construction worker doing his job! Had to giggle at myself..."

"My silliest moment happened this morning when my bf had a coughing fit in the kitchen, I then heard him walking to the toilet and I heard a splat, i started crying hysterically, when he came into the livingroom i started screaming at him telling him that he should have went outside to be sick on the grass so I didnt have to hear him... He burst out laughing and said that he was only pouring his left over soup down the toilet... I felt a sigh of relief coming on but then I started shouting at him again telling him that he should have told me that he was pouring the soup down the loo... It's quite funny now though lol."

"Not long after I met my other half we were walking into town together and I saw an old man who looked drunk coming towards us with his hand over his mouth. Of course, this clearly meant he was going to p*** and therefore I HAD to run into the road.... except of course he was just old, wobbly and coughing....no p*** at all. And there was my other half dragging me out of the way of the traffic looking at me like I'd gone insane! Especially when I said 'I'd rather be hit by a car than have to see that man be sick!'."

Here is one of my own personal most awkward memories: On our first date over dinner, my date starts to tell me the very graphic story about him doing it twice in a pus basin after surgery. How romantic. He wanted to have me laughing of course, but I wasn't...

No matter how hard or uninspiring life may seem, one can always afford a good laugh. I have learnt this the hard way. Then take a look at these brave souls. Even with a severe and embarrassing condition like ours, and most of them are suffering FAR more than I do at the moment, still they are being generous enough to managing laughing about themselves. What rolemodels. So if we can, so can you! Life isn't serious. It never was.

If you hate your boss, your job or any situation, if you hate your life - have a laugh! Then have a cry and after that get mad and then laugh again and move on. It's really inconcievable just to think about how serious some people take themselves. Avoid sarcastic people if you can, that only wants to spread fear and humiliation. Don't be a dusty dry stick just like them, be awesome, be you. Sooner or later you will realize you are in great deal of majority. Fear never wins.

 I want to end this post by adding an interview I accidentally ran over that I found very interesting and beautiful, especially because I can relate to it:

http://omtimes.com/2012/02/freedom-from-body-memory/

Be happy that you CAN feel fear. Fearless people are likely psychopaths.