Scary Blob On The Floor

Our secretary was staring in shock, disbelief and horror at something on the floor. It was a plum-sized pile of reddish goo. Finding something like that on a hospital floor is not good. God only knows what orifice it might have slipped out of. The secretary had only been gone from the floor for a minute. She couldn't imagine what awful thing had happened in such a brief period of time.

I rushed over and picked it up with my bare hands. It was mine. I had taken a bite out of a plum earlier. It was rotten, so I had balled it up in some trash and threw it out. Only, the plum had slipped out and plopped on the floor without my noticing. Not all gooey red piles in a hospital involve bodily fluids or waste. Sometimes it's just a plum.