Not at ALL crazy!!!

[Teefies2]

I'm posting this here because, while it happened at my work, I came in on the tail end of the situation and had to hear the complete story from others.

It all started when a woman between 25-35 years old walks into our store. Her first action is to ask the cashier if we have wheelchairs. Yes, we do, for sale - not for customers to use while they're shopping (we're a pharmacy, I don't know why, that's best left for fratching). Well that wasn't good enough .. "I need a wheelchair! You HAVE to provide them!!!!!!!!!" This will be important later.

Okay whatever. She and her group (older man and youngish woman were with her) walk down aisle 1. All of a sudden, she "feels like she's going to faint". Salesperson grabs a chair for her. No, that's not good enough, she needs to lie down on the floor (WTF? the floor is DIRTY, probably a hundred people walk on it a day until we sweep and mop). And then the shenanigans begin......

"I need a drink!!!!!!!!!!" Youngish woman, who we found out was her daughter, gets it for her - not sure if it was paid for. "I need some chips!!!!!!!!!!" Again, daughter gets it for her, again not sure if it was paid for.

Remember, she is spread-eagle in aisle 1, a crowd has gathered. "I need lotion rubbed on my legs!!!" Well the hell we certainly weren't gonna DO THAT!!!!!!!!" Shift lead (who has been called when this started) says, "Ma'am, you are welcome to lay there until you feel better, but could you please scoot over to the side, you are blocking the entire aisle?" OMG she goes off!!!

"I can't do that! I am sick, you HAVE to take care of MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Shift lead says "I am sorry you're sick Ma'am and we're trying to accommodate you, but there are other customers I have to attend to".

"I have a disease!!! I am going to DIE in TWO days!!!!!!!!!!" At which point, another customer tapped Shift lead on the shoulder and says "if I was gonna die in two days, I would be at the beach, not here" LOL

Now, the older guy that was with her springs into action, pulling salesperson off to the side. "I am her grandfather. She is actually (he bolded it with his voice, KWIM?) crazy. This all started when we were at Aldi's (a grocery store about 1.5 miles from our location). She wanted to use my cell phone and I wouldn't let her because she always runs up huge bills. This is a temper tantrum because she's been off her meds. She walked away from us at Aldi's and walked all the way here, we followed her in the car." This is the woman who berated our cashier because we didn't a wheelchair for customer use???????????????

Shift lead thanks the man for his information, motions to salesperson, and they walk away. Lo and behold, the woman gets up and walks out of the store.

WTH?????

[Slayer]

I don't even know how to process that. I don't think I even want to try o_O.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I believe I have a diagnosis for the woman. Coincidentally, it lines up with her grandfather's.

She crazy.

[AccountingDrone]

Meh, I got yelled at by a SC because I rolled out of the grocery store and loaded my personally owned wheelchair into the car. They were all butt-hurt because apparently they thought it was a store chair and I was stealing it. I suppose the little wheely dude on my license plate didn't sink in.

[most people use the hanging placards, the ones like me who tend to have their own chairs tend to have the licence plates...]

[Merriweather]

I've not had near enough coffee to even attempt to process this one. Though I tend to believe the grandfather's summary at this point. Hope somone gets her back on her meds quick.

[PepperElf]

she needs to lie down on the floor

We SO need an emoticon of someone milking a cow. Cos she's sure milking this one out.

Although I'd personally recommend a call to 911. Cos if she's really fainting then get her to the hospital, right? And if she's crazy then they can help with that too. Either way it gets her out of your store, right?

little wheely dude on my license plate

I've heard of states that only issue placards. My own home state does both - plates for someone with a permanent disability, and a placard for a temporary condition or a temporary vehicle (such as a rental or someone else is giving you a lift etc).

I got to learn about them in the 80s when Mom convinced our neighbor Mrs. K. to get one because of her severe arthritis. She got the placard because she didn't drive - didn't even have a car iirc.

To be honest it felt a bit weird parking in the designated spots. All my life those spots were "off limits" and now we were parking in one! But... as weird as it felt it was legit cos Mom was driving Mrs. K. to the store or appointments etc. Mrs. K. did offer to let Mom keep the placard but Mom refused. (mainly because it would be wrong, but also I think because it would restrict Mrs. K. with whom she got rides from etc.)

[Gizmo]

Ai Ai Ai.... I need more drugs and coffee for this one!

[redsox33413]

We have a few "customers" like that where I work. Come into the main lobby and start the oh, I'm so sick/unhealthy/dying antics... So we call the paramedics on them (to reduce our liability, of course!). Funny, it's like Jesus walks in and does a "laying on of hands" at that very moment, because they jump up and run out as soon as we call for an ambulance. I've got that trick down, and as soon as I master that whole walking on water thing, I'm taking my act to Vegas!

[Seshat]

Unfortunately, some forms of mental illness include an inability to process that you are, in fact, ill and benefit from medication.

Which leaves doctors and family (and sometimes family-court magistrates) with the problem: do you coerce them into taking meds, or not? And how much coercion is reasonable?


EDIT: I'm actually trying to comment on the crazy lady, and why her family may be tolerating her craziness rather than doing the alternatives. Actually discussing this dilemna would be a Fratching issue.

[Shalom]

I've heard of states that only issue placards. My own home state does both - plates for someone with a permanent disability, and a placard for a temporary condition or a temporary vehicle (snippety)
To be honest it felt a bit weird parking in the designated spots. All my life those spots were "off limits" and now we were parking in one!

My dad has limited mobility due to spinal stenosis and arthritis, so he got the permanent plate as well as the placard. Unfortunately, one of the effects of the stenosis is that he can't always feel his feet, so he stopped driving for the most part; my mother uses the car more than he does. I occasionally borrow it when I'm visiting, but even though I have the plates on the car, unless I have my father in the car with me I don't park in the handicap spots, because I'm not handicapped. I'm still waiting for someone to start yelling at me for taking up a regular spot that he could use... seem to recall such a story in Roadkill, now I come to think of it.

[ralerin]

Ai. I'm sorry, I think Laurie may have gone back in time with her family. Up until the part where I read her age, I said "That's her! Oh my god!"

I HATE her. Throws her disability around like someone would swing their dick into someone's face, yells, screams, throws giant fits if she can't get the sale price and constantly complains about how much her life sucks and how she hates this, that and the other thing.

[thatcrazyredhead]

I believe the technical term for people like this is whackadoo.

[MoonCat]

We have a customer like that. She did jail time years ago for trying to have a neighbor offed. Now she just calls us up and screams if we don't get her free ads in the paper. Nutz.

[Chromatix]

"She's the MAYOR of crazy town!"

Points for the reference.