Cleaning our store is a health code violation.

[auntiem]

ME: *Nodding* Sure man. Thats my diaboical plan to rule the world since my berat wearing pink monkeys failed.

I'm undercaffinated because I read:
my Borat, wearing pink monkeys, failed.

Now my brain needs Windex.

[Jester]

That wasn't a SC.. It was an mentally unstable person. Who the %#$# is afraid of WINDEX?!?!

Mentally unstable people, SCs, and/or germophobes. Take your pick.

My best attempt at a rationalization for the SC's ranting: Perhaps he used to work in food service, and had been instructed not to use glass and countertop cleaners on the surfaces that come in contact with food.

I'm washing our cooler doors with windex

If someone's worried about the cooler DOOR coming in contact with their FOOD, I have to wonder what their kitchen at home looks like! It's not like he was cleaning a food preparation area with Windex.

My diagnosis of the dude who bitched? Fucking idiot.

[PepperElf]

long story but... i know someone who ingested windex
i wouldn't recommend it as the next drink at a party but... the person was fine afterwards.

[Bliss]

If you get out of the shower wet Alan (my cat) will lick your legs... but it's more an exfoliation than a massage....

[depechemodefan]

completely OT, but at least the texture of a terriers tongue is great for a back massage... I of course don't speak from personal experience

Yesterday a guy called and asked if our library had any books on erotic male massages. Oddly enough, we don't. Though who knows, we might have once, and it went missing within the week. Or else, some "human dna" landed on it and it had to be burned. Really, a lot of people chock the chicken while looking at the medical atlases. And leave the evidence behind.

[PepperElf]

chock the chicken while looking at the medical atlases.

.... please tell me it wasn't the Mosby's medical encyclopedia.... cos i've seen THEIR photos and most of them weren't naked bodies, but... gross photos of what can go wrong in a body. (tho i will confess that i once read that book while eating)

[mattm04]

I had a SC complain that we were cleaning our self service pastry/muffin case in the bakery. It was compplely empty. All the supports for the shelves and pans were in the back beign washed. I was cleaning the walls.

He said we couldn't clean it by law. He didn't believe me when I said that we would get in trouble for NOT cleaning it.

[Kirkygirl]

....stupid customers.

I was once in the store, working, when one of the workers of <major coffee chain> was washing some dishes/utensils in the sink. Cue crotchety old man walking by:

Crotchety Man: why are you wasting so much water?
Lowly Peon: I'm sorry sir, but it is part of our hygene policies.
CM: Well then I need to speak with your manager!
LP: <Manager> actually has no control over said policies. They are directed by <major coffee chain>, but I can get you their number.

CM left in a huff. Vaild point from CM, I thought, but a bad way to react to such news.

If I'm cleaning something with a surface that will be affected by the chemical spray, I spray the cloth with the stuff, then wipe. No customers around? No food about to be contaminated by the spray? Then I just spray it right from the bottle onto the surface.

If the customers have a tough time with it, too bad. But, like all things, sometimes you can't win for losing.

[Nyoibo]

I say make like the Janitor from Scrubs, will the windex bottle with blue Gatorade and every now and then spray a couple of shots into your mouth to freak them out.

But that's just me.

[Jester]

gross photos of what can go wrong in a body. (tho i will confess that i once read that book while eating)

Hell...there was a day once when, after spending several hours in the computer lab doing research for a friend's film, wherein the research involved looking through photos of dead bodies in various states and innumerable injuries like shotgun blasts (including decapitations, among other things) I went out and had a hamburger for dinner. A rare hamburger.

I am odd, but my advice to most of you....do NOT check out rotten.com if you are planning on eating that day OR if you have a weak stomach in general!

[aurelemsrealm]

I've seen rotten.com before. It's pretty gruesome, all right. Why would anyone really want to see that stuff? I'd much rather watch CSI or do a dissection in biology lab.

[Nyoibo]

I've gone through rotten.com a few times, nothing there was ever bothered me before, don't know why but seeing people injured doesn't worry me.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

(according to "My big fat Greek wedding" Windex cures everything!!)

Put some windex! Love that movie.

[Jester]

Why would anyone really want to see that stuff?

I think I pretty much answered that question:

doing research for a friend's film

But there are tons of other reasons why someone might want to/need to check out that site, to be fair.

[calulu]

Orange Pledge doesn't taste bad, or doesn't taste at all, I use it on my kitchen cabinets and furniture, and I have yet to die from using windex on my windows as well.

I am deathly allergic to it. If I walked into a place being cleaned with that as it was being cleaned I'd end up poking myself with my epipen and the store manager calling for an ambo. Believe it or not some people are that sensitive. Most of us try to avoid situations and times when we might be exposed to those chemicals and as far as I know windex is pretty far down on the chemicals range, pretty safe.

However, it is a proven fact that in the last eight years in America congress has stripped out just about all safety regs that prevent companies from putting hazardous chemicals. Most of those 'new and improved' formula cleansers out there can contain high levels of known carcinogens and chemicals good for no one and it's all aokay because the government says it's alright.

Laugh, snicker and smirk, you might find yourself in the ER one day with no clue why you suddenly cannot breath and are having to be suddenly intubated.