I just read this entire thread and have been laughing pretty much non-stop! But I figure I'll throw in a few good ones too! I've worked in retail and/or restaurants since I was 15, so I've had my fair share of experiences.
At my very first job EVER, a little boy was in the fitting room with his mom. I heard him say before going in that he really needed to pee, but his mom made him go into the room anyway with her. After a few minutes of screaming about needing to pee, I heard the mom say "Okay, okay, just go right there." I looked down the hallway and saw a pile of shirts wadded up in the corner of the fitting room with a trail of urine streaming right on top! I called my manager, who came over and made the woman leave with her kid. The woman didn't even apologize!
Fast-forward a few years to restaurants....I've seen people change diapers right at the table where they're about to eat, vomit in their laps from drinking too much, vomit on the walls because they thought they were lying on the bathroom floor, and I've definitely cleaned up my fair share of bathrooms with stuff EVERYWHERE. I really do wonder though, unless you have a colostomy bag, HOW in the HELL do you get SHIT ON THE CEILING?!
Now that I'm a manager in retail though, things have gotten much more interesting. I've found pads and tampons in fitting rooms, the worst of which was the tampon that fell in my hair from the top ledge of a fitting room door. I haven't experienced any pooing accidents, though just about a month ago someone decided to drop USED baby wipes all over my store - we're talking actual PIECES stuck to the wipes, which were just laying open on the ground. I also enjoy finding gum and lollipops stuck to brand new shirts.
Seriously, the stories I could tell! I'll just leave you all with one of my favorites:
Summer of 2007, I was working for Hollister. We would frequently get people asking if they could use our bathrooms, but since those were in the employee-only area of the store, they weren't for public use. Luckily, most people could make it to the public restrooms that were just down the hall, but every once in a while someone would pee on the hardwood floors or in the fake potted plants throughout the store (and because of that, that particular store ALWAYS smelled like the "Jake" cologne since we sprayed it so much!).
Well, one day, this teenage girl was at the store with her mom and younger sister. I was coming from the back stock room and was practically run over by this teenage girl on her way to the bathroom. I thought it was one of my employees, so I knocked on the door to see if she was okay. She didn't answer, but I could hear heaves and whatnot, so I went back to the floor and decided to check on the employee in a bit. The employee at the fitting room said to me "I hope it's okay that I let her use our bathroom." I asked him what he was talking about, and he told me that this teenage girl was waiting in line with her mom and sister and kept complaining about her stomach bothering her. The mom told her that they would go to the bathroom once she was done purchasing a whole bunch of things. Right after the mom says this, the girl puked ALL OVER one of the armchairs and the plant and rug in the store's "lounge" area, right in front of the registers! The fitting room guy let the girl use our bathroom, which was fine by me seeing as how this girl was puking all over our store. He also told me that the mom and younger sister were getting rung up currently, so I went over to the registers to get the mom's take on the matter. She asked me "Are you the manager?" After I said yes, she goes on to say "My daughter has the flu, and I think all the shopping today was just too much for her. Thanks for letting her use the restroom." Two seconds later, she's handed her receipt and her bag, and then her teenage daughter comes out of the back room, looking pasty white and sweaty. The mom asked "Feeling better?" then walked out of the store. Which left me going "WTF?!" because suddenly I was stuck cleaning up the vomit. I'm not saying this woman should have cleaned up her daughter's vomit, but she couldn't have said "Sorry my daughter ruined your chair" or at least offered to help with the clean-up?
Here's the kicker though.....we didn't have upholstery cleaner! I had to visit a lot of stores in our wing of the mall to find one with upholstery cleaner we could borrow. I spent HOURS scrubbing that stuff up, it was absolutely disgusting!
you know people who have certain diseases and have to have parts of their intestines removed? and then they have a little bag sticking out of their abdomen where their body waste goes? (im not making this up!!!). well some of these people are obviously not very intelligent and "forget" to empty their bag often enough. then they get gassy so theres air in the plastic bag, and when they go to the bathroom to empty it theres pressure because of the air, and the bag just explodes. I have so many friends working in retail or in restaurants or gas station places who this has happent to! lol and thats what i tell them everytime... how else could it have happent right??
