Wherein the SC asks me a rather blunt question

[Mr Hero]

I have an eye condition where my eyes don't stay in the same place. They move side to side back and forth. It's a condition I've had since birth and I can't drive because of it. I'm also dealing with allergies.

Ignorant SC checks in early this morning.

SC: I can tell
Me: Tell what?
SC: That you're high.
Me: No, I just have a cold.
SC: No, your eyes are shifting back and forth.
Me: (sternly) No, this is a condition I've had since birth.

First of all, I've never gotten high in my life. Nor do I plan to. Second of all, why would I risk my job by coming to work high?

ETA Bonus Story
Yesterday I was doing express checkouts. This just means that I slide the final bill under the door so they can just walk out. I was outside one room where I hear a muffled female voice. I couldn't tell what she was saying. The voice got louder, but it turns out she wasn't saying anything. These guests certainly enjoyed their stay!

[ralerin]

I imagine their response must've been along the lines of "No, you're high. I can tell. I KNOW these things and I'm the customer who's always right!"

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

I feel your pain, I have a turned eye one looks straight the other looks off to the side, i've have some really nasty comments from customers how I must be blind or i'm retarded in some way.

People can be serious arseholes.

[Draginhikari]

I never quite understood why people feel the need to point out things like this just out of nowhere. What the hell difference does it make in there day?

[telecom_goddess]

I feel your pain, I have a turned eye one looks straight the other looks off to the side, i've have some really nasty comments from customers how I must be blind or i'm retarded in some way.

People can be serious arseholes.

I have that condition too....I and my one eye that looks straight is near sighted...anyway as a result I have no depth perception in my vision. Because of the one eye turning out I've had so many comments from people saying "what are you looking at"...."why aren't you looking at me"....etc blah blah blah.

Gets old.

[EricKei]

anyway as a result I have no depth perception in my vision..

My brother has had Amblyopia since birth (now in his 30's), which was not corrected because our eye doctor somehow failed to notice it for the first 3 years of my bro's life despite regular visits.

While he can keep it more or less in one place (eyepatch method as a kid), he is still effectively blind in that eye, and has next to zero depth perception. Note that this did NOT prevent him from becoming a pizza delivery driver...

On the upside, his vision in the good eye is something like 20/10 -- in other words, significantly better than normal vision -- as a result of having to compensate.

Me, I'm just nearsighted in both. Without specs, I'm somewhere close to Legally Blind, afaik (which is only a problem when I lose them...not allowed to drive if I'm not wearing specs) --- Prescription strength of roughly 7x power is needed to give me vision in the 20/30 range.

Yes, eye problems run in our family, on both sides. Why do you ask? (^)_(^)

[XCashier]

I never quite understood why people feel the need to point out things like this just out of nowhere. What the hell difference does it make in there day?

Same reason they feel the need to point out a CS worker's weight, acne, crooked teeth or other unimportant things. I think they do it to make them feel better about themselves. "Yes, I'm a self-centered jerk who's mean to everybody I meet, but at least my eyes are normal!"

[KMCA]

I feel your pain, I have a turned eye one looks straight the other looks off to the side, i've have some really nasty comments from customers how I must be blind or i'm retarded in some way.

People can be serious arseholes.

I never look at people that I'm talking to, I watch everything else once I get through the greetings and figure out if he's "safe" I wear sunglasses as often as I can to keep people from freaking out on me for watching everything but them. Hell I've been doing that so much at work that I rarely look ANYONE in the eyes anymore, which has the nasty habit of pissing off my g/f of 7 years

[Keiara]

Wow what an asshole. This makes me glad that I'm leaving retail and going to a call center were customers don't actually see me

[Dave1982]

I can definitely sympathize, having just gone through an MSG reaction that had some co-irkers thinking I was high.....

[AnaKhouri]

Once a customer came up and accused a co-worker of being on drugs because she was slurring her speech. He look surprised when I said, "Thanks for telling me, she's a Type A diabetic." And ran away to take co-worker to the back for a sugar packet.

I hope he felt bad; he could have said, "Your co-worker is acting strange." but instead he had to make assumptions.

[telecom_goddess]

While he can keep it more or less in one place (eyepatch method as a kid), he is still effectively blind in that eye, and has next to zero depth perception. Note that this did NOT prevent him from becoming a pizza delivery driver...

Actually both of my eyes at one time wandered, the left one turned completely around, and we did the eyepatch method for a while, but I ended up having surgery at 18 months old to correct it. That is now my near sighted eye. The other eye has better vision but it's the one turning to the side.

Can't win!