Seriously ladies, I really don't need to know about your menopausal difficulties.

[Lingering Grin]

Tuesday mornings we have a group of women that comes in for a league. Most of them are in their mid-late 40's.

They'll call up and say:

"Can you turn the fan on our lane on. I'm having a hot-flash."


Ladies... seriously...please... only the first part of that sentence is necessary in order to get me to turn on the fan.

[Rapscallion]

I used to have a customer I nicknamed "Little Miss Menopause".

She'd over-share with anyone within hearing reach, even once chasing people out of the chemist whilst waving a pack of sanitary towels and saying, "I said I'm glad I won't need these much longer!"

Rapscallion

[Ravendjinn]

eww.
too much info on their behalf

[Trayol]

It could have been worse. She could have mentioned her decreasing of ability to


ovulate or menstrate


Highlight for response. Warning might be pretty gross as I have a mother who's starting menopause

[bigjimaz]

At a former job dealing with the public there used to be a woman come through that you could tell she was 'cycling' simple by standing next to her. Let's just say that personal hygiene was not her strong suit.

[Boozy]

It could have been worse. She could have mentioned her decreasing of ability to

ovulate or menstrate


Highlight for response. Warning might be pretty gross as I have a mother who's starting menopause

Why are the words ovulate or menstruate gross?

I don't think mentioning having a hot flash is necessarily inappropriate either, but I'd definitely classify it as "Things Customers Say About Themselves About Which We Do Not Care."

[Trayol]

Why are the words ovulate or menstruate gross?

They might have been to some people. Not me though, thanks to my mother.

[Dreamstalker]

It could have been worse. She could have mentioned her decreasing of ability to

ovulate or menstrate

Or, "lubrication" problems.

We have a very good family friend (they live next door to our first house in VA, one of her sons was my first babysitter) who tends to discuss menopausal/sexual/digestive issues with a bit too much enthusiasm/TMI. The first time my mom and I visited when I was home from college, she started expounding on things sexual at the dinner table (her other son and I were both amused and creeped out).

Oh, the one-ended conversations I've been privy to sometimes when she calls my mom...simultaneously WTF and LMAO. I'm no longer grossed out by any of it, in fact it's become something of a private joke ("So what is X's latest problem?"). I daresay I learned more about age and gastrointestinal/reproductive issues than a non-doctor should ever want to know

[BookstoreEscapee]

I daresay I learned more about age and gastrointestinal/reproductive issues than a non-doctor should ever want to know

Well, I now know that a guy who sits near me at work has made an appointment for his father to get a colonoscopy. I also know that he himself likes to get a colonoscopy because he gets to sleep for half an hour. Frankly, I prefer to nap in my own bed with my clothes on.

One of my coworkers emailed me that day (from his desk 2 cubes away) and wrote: "I'm sorry for the conversations you have to listen to."

So am I, Coworker, so am I...

[rerant]

Could have been worse. One slow day at work me and two other cashiers were talking about the new American Gladiators show when I mentioned I really liked that Pyramid challenge.
This is what came from my mouth after that.
"It actually looks kind of fun. I wouldn't mind bouncing around on a nice squishy period."



Oops.

[Boochan]

Joking about your inevitable death is worse.
My mall is across the road from a nursing home, and quite a few elderly people live in the area.. we now have a loose rule not to sell service plans to elderly persons, because most of them "joke" that they'll be dead by the time the service plan is finished.

Don't understand how to respond to this..

[thehippie777]

Joking about your inevitable death is worse.
My mall is across the road from a nursing home, and quite a few elderly people live in the area.. we now have a loose rule not to sell service plans to elderly persons, because most of them "joke" that they'll be dead by the time the service plan is finished.

Don't understand how to respond to this..

I am a tad bit too morbid for my own good, and if it were me I would really like to respond with, "Hey...you're right. *bit of a nervous, evil giggle*"