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  • The most grossest story on CS evah!!

    So i'm walking around the floor when a customer comes up to me and tells me of a weird smell coming from the magazine area. So I go to the area, and I get a whiff of what smells like rotting dead fish. I manage to pinpoint the smell to this one woman sitting on one of the chairs.

    So, I go and tell the SM about this. SM decides that unless the woman isn't doing anything wrong, we have no reason to kick her out. So I field any more complaints to the SM.

    Well, she stays in the store for 2 hours. I completely avoid the area, as does the rest of the staff. As do many of the customers, whom also complain of the stench.

    Now here is the stomach turner:

    One of the other guys is going to the backroom, when he sees the woman start to leave. She stands up, and gives a view of her butt area.

    I won't say "good view," but he sees a big brown/yellow stain where her asscrack should be positioned on the white pair of pants. She was sitting on possibly shit-loaded pants and undergarments, or has really bad hygiene.

    Yes, let that image sink into your mind folks. I'll wait.





    Burned good enough into your mind for you? Let's continue.

    So the guy just blankly comes back to the cashier area, puts down the stack of shelves he was carrying to the backroom, and tells me and LP guy about the stinky lady. We both manage to get a quick glance at the woman, and sure enough, we see it too. LP guy goes to look at the chair, and the stench was still prevelent, and.....well, I think you get the picture.

    When we tell the SM, she orders that the chair be immediately disposed of in the dumpster (and the kicker is that it was a 4 month old chair, partially broken in), and that woman is hereby retroactively banned from the store.

    The funny part is that the guys (4 of them) argued who was tasked to "help" dump the chair. LP pulled rank, Manga guy only agreed if he was issued a Haz-Mat Suit and got hazard pay, and the other two guys eventually did the job after we unloaded a whole bottle of hand sanitizer onto the chair to at least kill the smell. We also had to destroy any magazine she touched and those that were on it's sides 3 issues deep and behind it 2 issues deep. All told, we destroyed 48 magazines because of fears of possible fecal contamination.
    Last edited by Hon'ya-chan; 09-22-2007, 08:55 AM.

  • #2
    Quoth Hon'ya-chan View Post
    LP pulled rank,
    That really gets my goat, I would never ask someone to do something i wasn't prepared to do myself, dammit put on some gloves, an apron and get on with it. Then shower. Lots.
    A PSA, if I may, as well as another.

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    • #3
      Quoth Hon'ya-chan View Post
      he sees a big brown/yellow stain where her asscrack should be positioned on the white pair of pants.
      48 magazines sounds a little... over the top... Was there really risk?

      I'd also like to say that there are medical conditions that can explain this, but *almost* everyone with these conditions would go clean themselves up and definitely not sit in a book store for 2 hours.
      MMO Addicts group

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      • #4
        I would have called in a hazmat team

        or at least get in one of those cool bomb robots to dispose of it

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        • #5
          Quoth Jacen View Post
          48 magazines sounds a little... over the top... Was there really risk?
          I agree. Major overreaction on destroying that many magazines.
          I have no doubt it was disgusting, and it was probably going to be difficult to clean up the chair if it had a cloth seat, but it seems like a lot of waste.

          I really have to wonder about people who smell that bad and seem oblivious to it.
          Too tired of living and too tired to end it. What a conundrum.

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          • #6
            Quoth Ree View Post
            I really have to wonder about people who smell that bad and seem oblivious to it.
            I'm guessing that mental illness is a major factor in most cases.

            If you have to ask, it's probably better posted at www.fratching.com

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            • #7
              Quoth Ree View Post
              I really have to wonder about people who smell that bad and seem oblivious to it.
              They can't smell it. Literally, can not smell it.

              <science lesson>
              The way your nose works is that it identifies smells by the shape of the molecules. You have differently shaped receptors in your nose, and there is a finite amount of them.

              Once a molecule becomes attached to a receptor, it stays there a while. I don't know how long or why, but that's what happens.

              If you stay in a place with a particular type of smell for any length of time, you will fill all of the receptors that are shaped for that molecule and will be unable to smell any more scents that are the same shape.

              This woman has smelled like this for so long that she only gets very brief whiffs of her own stench as the receptors in her nose clear and are immediately refilled.
              <science lesson>

              Remember the scene with Ludo and Sir Diddymus at the Bog of Stench? Sir Diddymus' nose worked just fine, he just couldn't really smell stench any more.

              Freaky cat ladies whose homes are filled with the smell of cat pee and filthy cats can't smell it. They are often honestly baffled when people complain about the smell because they no longer experience it to any notable degree.

              ^-.-^
              Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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              • #8
                I knew that about the smelling receptors thing, but honestly, a person knows when they are putting on old smelly underwear and clothes, and surely, they can see skidmarks on their pants.

                I guess I didn't word it quite right, but that was more the point.
                Are they that oblivious that they don't realize underwear worn for days at a time are going to stink or that not bathing for any length of time is going to result in body odour?

                I just don't get it.
                Too tired of living and too tired to end it. What a conundrum.

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                • #9
                  Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
                  Remember the scene with Ludo and Sir Diddymus at the Bog of Stench? Sir Diddymus' nose worked just fine, he just couldn't really smell stench any more.
                  Ah! The air is sweet! And fragrant! And none may pass without my permission!

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                  • #10
                    That exact same thing happened to my friend E (who works in a book store, a well) while I was visiting her at work, stench, stain, and all.

                    It was traumatizing.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Ree View Post
                      I agree. Major overreaction on destroying that many magazines.
                      I have no doubt it was disgusting, and it was probably going to be difficult to clean up the chair if it had a cloth seat, but it seems like a lot of waste.
                      Better safe than sorry, in my opinion. If her pants were like that, and she smelled like that, who knows where her hands have been?
                      The customer is NEVER right! Unless they're nice...

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                      • #12
                        Quoth nwwaew View Post
                        Better safe than sorry, in my opinion. If her pants were like that, and she smelled like that, who knows where her hands have been?
                        That DOES make sense

                        I really have to wonder about people who smell that bad and seem oblivious to it.
                        Andara's way is one way to look at it. Another way is that they simply don't care
                        MMO Addicts group

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                        • #13
                          i dont see it as an overreaction. whatre you gonna do, wipe 'em down and hope no one gets diphtheria? we have a regular who reeks, and whenever he handles a book, we have to return it. once he touches it, no one else will. his funk has been transferred to the merchandise. why don't we ban him? because we have no store manager to make that call and our district manager is a douche nozzle.
                          Kim: She's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

                          I'd like to exercise my constitutional right to not give a fuck.

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                          • #14
                            That's interesting about the smell receptors......would explain why my mom (who's got problems with irritable bowel syndrome) never noticed that she'd had an "accident" until someone pointed it out to her.

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                            • #15
                              i understand the distruction, not only could she have gotten god only knows what on them, and besides if she sat there for two hours, most likely they picked up her smell. So... no one ... ever... on the face of the earth.... EVER.... not even the moon or jupiter.... EVVVVVVVVVERRRRRRR........would have bought them.... ever

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