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    Today at work, I was stuck at the till (again) and an old woman comes up to pay her bill. She pays with exact change...supposedly. I go to count the change portion of her exact amount, and discover that her pennies were superglued to one another with some kind of strange foreign substance. It looked like battery acid. I tried to pry the pennies apart, but it was to no avail.

    Along this line, what are some of the most disgusting things customers have ever handed you guys?

    I've had stuff like dirty napkins (old people like to carry their nasty napkins up to the till and leave them as though they are special gifts), chewed up gum in candy wrappers, somebody's regurgitated candy that was put back in the wrapper and handed to me while I was working the till, reciepts with little chunks of food and gravy on them, snotty kleenexes, reciepts with huge, DISGUSTING grease stains on them, pocket lint, and now the weird battery acid pennies. I know I can't be the only one who gets handed crap on a regular basis...
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    Oooh, that's a hard one. I work at a returns counter, and I've seen a LOT. Here's a few I can think of off the top of my head.

    - An infant car seat with spit-up all over it
    - A busted deep frier still coated in oil
    - A receipt that had apparently fallen in some sort of slimy liquid so that it was unreadable and only one corner was touchable. (The customer DID apologize for that one, at least. I did a credit card lookup instead of touching THAT.)
    - A lost-and-found baby bottle, so old the contents were chunky
    - A plastic bag with McD's in it, which looked to have been chewed up and spit back out
    - Obviously-worn lingere, undershirts, and swimsuits

    The absolute worst, though, wasn't given to me by a customer, but by my coworkers. The team lead of the food department can't be bothered to do his own store defectives, so whenever they do a Freshness Challenge, they either bring us two heaping carts of expired cookies and green lunchmeat, or leave the carts in random places in the back room. And, if they're not careful, the containers can break against each other. Try THIS mix for disgusting (actually...don't, if you're about to eat):

    - Warm, spoiled yogurt
    - A broken bottle of soy sauce
    - Punctured serving-sized fruit cups, complete with black mold and fruit flies
    - No-longer-frozen waffles.
    It's little things that make the difference between 'enjoyable', 'tolerable', and 'gimme a spoon, I'm digging an escape tunnel'.

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    • #3
      As a former Return Desk *edited* at a Home Improvement Store, I feel your pain. Here is a sampling of the stuff I have seen come back.

      - Used Toilet Snake. Somehow, even though the crap was on the snake, he claimed be never used it. It stunk really bad.
      - Used Toilet Seat. Did not like the way it felted on his butt. I admire his honestly...
      - A branch from a Oak Tree, claiming it was a WHOLE PALM TREE.
      - Used paint. Sometimes with Urine instead of Water/Paint.
      - Ungodly amount of items with no UPCs,Recipets, item number, or when they bought it [not even narrowing it to a month].

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      • #4
        Back when I did DSD Receiving, I was also required to handle the non-saleable items and prepare them to return to the Reclaimation Center.

        Some of the more grosser stuff I've had shoved back there include:

        Melting ice cream - bonus points if left either on top shelf of cart or in a box of markdown items.

        Open cans of veggies/Chef Boyardee/pet food . . . complete with flies and furry to boot.

        Leaking milk tossed behind the reclaim cart . . . bonus points if done over the weekend when I was not there and left there until Monday when I came in.

        Broken jars of pickles left in the box it came in - bonus points if box is soaked with pickle juice and falls apart upon lifting.

        Cake icing smeared all over the backroom floor . . . bonus points if colored

        Sticky drink cartons b/c one has leaked all over the place

        Broken bags of charcoal dumped all over the inside of a grocery cart

        Packages of raw meat that have turned black

        Need I continue?
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