The Customer from GLAD

[Monterey Jack]

Since this customer isn't actually sucky, I put this in Sightings...

There's this woman who has started shopping in my store...who buys white plastic garbage bags so she can wrap them around her legs and over her feet. I'd consider her some weird-assed germophobe, but she doesn't wear one of those surgical masks or anything else, just the garbage bags. SO weird. She seems pleasant and normal enough in all other respects, but it's hard not to stare.

[apocolypse101]

Does she do this IN the store or does she come into the store like this?

[Food Lady]

It took me a few minutes on that title... Anyway, it's not any weirder than the fact that someone is going into the retail job and putting what looks like cheese dip on the SCO scanners. I think every store has that one customer.

[Kittish]

There's this woman who has started shopping in my store...who buys white plastic garbage bags so she can wrap them around her legs and over her feet. I'd consider her some weird-assed germophobe, but she doesn't wear one of those surgical masks or anything else, just the garbage bags.

Does she do this over her shoes, or put shoes on over the bags? Over or under other clothing? Not that it makes any real difference, it just... occurred to me to wonder.

[Monterey Jack]

Does she do this IN the store or does she come into the store like this?

The first time I noticed her, she was taking the bags out of the box and placing them over her legs. The second time she might have done that, but I just didn't see her until after she had.

Does she do this over her shoes, or put shoes on over the bags? Over or under other clothing? Not that it makes any real difference, it just... occurred to me to wonder.

Over her shoes.

Strange...

[Slave to the Phone]

Either she is protecting her legs from those dreaded germs with magical plastic bags, or she's using them to steal.

However...if she is in the store to buy depends...she might just be very considerate.

[Cia]

Waiting for the story where she slipped and fell then sued the store for negligence.

[MoonCat]

hmmm.
We used to have a lady in town who dressed in all white, head to toe. You'd see her around a certain part of town, on the bus, walking by, etc. Eventually somebody at the paper spoke to her, and got her story, which was: She is "allergic to color."

Harmless older lady, just...a bit odd.

[Slave to the Phone]

I sure hope the all white lady never learns that white is actually all of the colors and black is the absence of all colors....

[EricKei]

Depends on if you mean physical objects or rays of light What you said is true of light; the opposite is the case for objects.

[Nunavut Pants]

Ah, yes--the old conflict of additive versus subtractive colors. One is about the wavelengths of emitted light, the other is about the wavelengths that are absorbed by things versus those that are reflected by them.

Odd trivia: Shine only green light on a plant and it will die. Why? Because its leaves actually absorb other wavelengths than green, and bounce green light back to us. That's why it looks green, because it is using the other wavelengths.

[ladyjaneinmd]

hmmm.
We used to have a lady in town who dressed in all white, head to toe. You'd see her around a certain part of town, on the bus, walking by, etc. Eventually somebody at the paper spoke to her, and got her story, which was: She is "allergic to color."

Harmless older lady, just...a bit odd.

Actually, I can kind of understand that. I can only wear white cotton socks, because anything with color in it makes my feet smell like old cheese. I think it's something in the dye. Fortunately, I don't have that problem with the rest of my clothing.

[Kit-Ginevra]

No your problem may be the attention you're getting because you're only wearing cotton socks

[MoonCat]

Actually, I can kind of understand that. I can only wear white cotton socks, because anything with color in it makes my feet smell like old cheese. I think it's something in the dye. Fortunately, I don't have that problem with the rest of my clothing.

Yeah, the dye might be causing a reaction, but! Interesting tidbit: The same bacteria that gives limberger cheese its, ahem, "aroma" is also found on feet. So, take that as you will. (we all have that bacteria, btw).