Our Bbq today with blood & vomiting!

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This sounds like a gory title for a bbq with a friends, but you wouldn't believe what happened. We had invited friends (2 adults & 5 year old) to our place for a bbq lunch. The salad was made, a beautiful trifle for desert was created, & lots of meat was bought. As the weather was lovely, we set up the outdoor table. I put my lacy tablecloth on, & the plate settings, etc. We had three bottles of wine. Our friends arrived, & a great time was had by all. The kids played various games, we had the lunch & sat around drinking plunger coffee. The kids ( 4 of them ) were inside playing a board game when something went wrong. My 8 year old step daughter shook the dice in the glass too hard, & the glass flew out of her hand & smashed. My 13 year old step son picked up the glass & put it in the bin. My daughter came out & told me of this, & by then my step daughter was in her bedroom crying. The others had teased her, & told her off for breaking the glass, so she was sulking. No one paid any attention to this, so the crying became louder. Still no attention. The crying became hysterical. Then she ran outside & went right to the back of the yard, crying very loudly. Still no one paid her attention. At this point, she went inside & went balistic. She started vomiting. As she didn't try to make it to the toilet, she went to the rubbish bin, & this partly worked. Her Dad got her a bucket to vomit in. My visitors had come inside to help clear up dishes too & saw all this. In the midst of vomiting, my daughter called out.. "there's blood". Sure enough, there was a trail of blood going through the hall way & the family room. It was coming from her toe. There was quite a cut & bleeding was reasonably copious. As I dealt with the blood, & tried to stop the flow, clean the cut, & put bandages on, my husbanmd was dealing with the vomiting child, who then had realised that it was her broken glass that cut my daughters foot. After my husband had vaccumed the carpet & floor to remove all broken glass, everything calmed down. Fortunately my friends are broadminded, & tried to help with all these disasters. But it was a bit embarassing really, to come to a bbbq & be confronted with a hysterical child, vomit & a bloody cut toe. We had a few drinks!!!