Was today "Stupid Day" and I missed the memo? PART TWO

[Teefies2]

Okay, as if yesterday wasn't enough, http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...78#post1168478 , we had some more winners today!

<If you've never been in a Green of Walls, the main register has all the cigarettes behind it. We're talking 5 three-foot sections of 5 shelves each, so ... yeah a lot of cigarettes.>

Guy comes up to the front register this morning, where I am standing. Looks me straight in the eye and asks "Do you sell cigarettes here?" I turn around, look at the FIFTEEN feet of FIVE shelves each of cigarettes ... turn back around and (seriously) deadpan "yeah". Then I got the giggles and the other cashier had to wait on him!



Had customer ask where the saline solution was. I showed them - in the eye care section - but no, they wanted the "drinkable" kind. Huh??




I went outside on my break to smoke a cigarette, minding my own business. A car pulls up, windows open (I'll give them credit for that, given what's coming). A woman gets out of the car and yells "HEY!!!!! Watch my kid!!!!!!!!!!" Ummmm, really? You're asking me to watch the BABY in the car seat in the back? While you go in the store (to buy cigarettes, as it turned out!)??? Okay, let's examine this.

First of all, it's Summer! Temp today at that time was about 90 degrees. Why would you leave your BABY in the car in the first place? The kid wasn't sleeping, was happily drinking a bottle. No reason not to take them with you.

Second, I'm a STRANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I had on the company uniform, but that doesn't mean I'm not a kidnapper or child molester! (I'm not, by the way) And let's not even THINK about the store's liability if something had happened - since I'm in uniform and all.

Third, you were in the store for about 15 minutes. WTH????? You leave your kid with a complete stranger - who, by the way - you ORDERED to watch your kid for that long?????? Oh the Hell no!

Well, of course, I watched the baby, what else was I gonna do? When you came out, did you thank me? Of course NOT .... just jumped in the car and sped off to your next great adventure!



I bought wine on my way out of work tonight. Strangely, no one at work questioned this decision.

[aulocksmith]

Had customer ask where the saline solution was. I showed them - in the eye care section - but no, they wanted the "drinkable" kind. Huh??

Maybe they were after this?

[kibbles]

Well, of course, I watched the baby, what else was I gonna do?

Call CPS for someone leaving their baby unattended in a car. It is not your responsibility to look after a customer's child and you should never do it, especially for the sake of yourself IMO.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Had customer ask where the saline solution was. I showed them - in the eye care section - but no, they wanted the "drinkable" kind. Huh??

They're having pooping problems. You're welcome.

[ComputerNecromancer]

Had customer ask where the saline solution was. I showed them - in the eye care section - but no, they wanted the "drinkable" kind. Huh??

He was looking for oral rehydration fluid. It's a mix of electrolytes with sugar added. For some reason the sugar keeps your body from vomiting the stuff back up. (yes, really, without the sugar, "salt" water that concentrated would make you puke).

Once this was discovered it saved a *lot* of lives in places where things like dysentery are endemic. It makes it possible to get fluids and electrolytes back into someone fast than they are losing them.

Pedialyte is a brand name of it for kids.

For adults, you might as well point them at gatorade or the equivalent, though that has more sugar than is needed. (Which is why if you are a diabetic but need a "sports drink" and can't find the sugar free ones, you cut the gatorade half & half with water)

[Aethian]

Pedialyte is a brand name of it for kids.

That's what my diabetic doctor told me to chug in the summer when I was getting near the end of my route. Stuff is overly sweet for me but I've only bottomed twice.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

They're having pooping problems. You're welcome.

Then one would ask for Magnesium Citrate, not saline solution.

[thatcrazyredhead]

Call CPS for someone leaving their baby unattended in a car. It is not your responsibility to look after a customer's child and you should never do it, especially for the sake of yourself IMO.

I second what kibbles said, especially in the summer! Earlier this year, we had an infant die after being left in the car while his father went to the bar where he worked to smoke pot with a buddy. He tried to say that he had just stopped by for a minute and "lost track of time," but the truth came out and he's going to be prosecuted. I hope they throw the freaking book at him.

[Seshat]

And let's not even THINK about the store's liability if something had happened - since I'm in uniform and all.

Well, of course, I watched the baby, what else was I gonna do? When you came out, did you thank me? Of course NOT .... just jumped in the car and sped off to your next great adventure!

It would also cause you to have personal liability.

Don't do it, next time. (Sadly, there will be a next time.) Instead, call the police, report the child abandonment. Because it is: you hadn't agreed, and you were a stranger with no reasonable reason for her to assume you have childcare credentials.

You can't afford the liability. Sure, watch the kid until the police show - but by reporting the endangerment, you're making it legally clear that you're not accepting responsibility.