How can you go shirtless in THIS weather?

[fireheart]

Given that I didn't serve this guy, I only saw him at work, this just made me go .

For the uninitiated, I give you...Tourette's Guy.

-Comes in unpredictably.
-Wanders around the store doing various tics-no swearing. (these are so far, flailing arms, nodding of head and others...)
-Will usually buy same or similar items.
-Asks some questions about items that disappeared months ago.
-Repeats his response to himself as he walks around.

So basically, a bit creepy to the general public, but to the rest of us, he's harmless.

Anyway, he usually wears the same outfit-fluro shirt, short shorts and socks with sandals.

The other night, he comes in, does his usual and then wanders up to a coworkers checkout. Without the fluro shirt. He had NO shirt on whatsoever.

When the temperature is about 10 degrees outside (Celsius)



Granted, shirtless guys are a rarity at my store, because I'm not near the coast, but seeing this guy wander around made me go O_O.

He's harmless like I said, but still a bit scary to see....

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Come to a Green Bay Packers game. There you'll find shirtless men in 10 degrees blow zero Fahrenheit weather.

[PepperElf]

10º C is only 50º F
Here in NY, after a long cold winter that's a nice spring day.

What's crazy is when it's barely above freezing and you see people wearing shorts. O_o

[fireheart]

Pepper, because we don't go below zero in Australia, usually 10 degrees is considered cold.

And as for guys going shirtless, they're somewhat rare during this time period. We're not near a beach, we're in a large mall...and it's cold, at night...

[blas]

50 degrees Farenheit is pretty much tropical for people in Wisconsin this time of year, especially after really long, horrible winters like the past two have been.

Irv, you missed a part. You'll see lots of fat shirtless men there.

[artifical sweetner]

still, mental condition and weather aside, wandering a store not near the beach shirtless really is quite random and probably would throw me off too

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I gotta think that kind of goes with it sometimes. I mean, I'm not a doctor, obviously, but I've known people with suspected Tourettes (and no, it's not just people who swear uncontrollably. It's about compulsive tics.) and in at least one case, the person could not keep their shirt on, or at least contantly pulled on their clothes like their clothes were full of ants.

In the case I'm talking about, I only suspected that the guy had Tourettes..or at least some kind of compulsive disorder. So I really don't know. But you basically described him in your OP. And he could not WAIT to start shedding clothes.

I think clothing bothers him.

[McGoddess09]

And he could not WAIT to start shedding clothes.

Kinda horrible of me, but I will explode if I don't.


That's what she said.


I'm going to some type of inferno/hell/bad afterlife

[PepperElf]

but I've known people with suspected Tourettes (and no, it's not just people who swear uncontrollably. It's about compulsive tics.)

I found out on my first ship that about Tourette's too. One of the guys was always doing a little cough, always thought he was sick, so I asked.

Him: It's Tourette's
Me: It comes in different levels?
Him: yes
Me: OK. <proceeded to ignore his cough after that>

and from him I also learned, that lower levels of Tourette's can spin up into sputtering and swearing... if people pick at you a lot (some of the shipmates were assholes)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, only a small percentage of people with Tourettes have the cursing compulsion. A lot of people with Tourettes, you might not even realize have it, the tics might be very mild or not really dramatic. I think the yelling swear words tic gets the most press because it's very dramatic...it's not like you can fail to notice such a thing.

One guy I worked with in TV was a boom crane operator with it. I gripped for him on a shoot once, so I was in front of him guiding the boom and he was behind me on the camera. I kept hearing a faint clicking behind me. It was his teeth. He clicked his teeth when his stress level went up a bit. Camera work can be a little tricky sometimes, hence the stress. Otherwise, you wouldn't much notice anything amiss with the guy. He'd twitch his head a little, but you wouldn't realy attribute it to anything specific unless you knew the guy had Tourettes, which I only did because he'd told me.

And before any other wise guys ask if he could keep his clothes on, yes he could.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

About the temperature... Yeah, I'm in northern Canada. I've got a friend D who used to walk to work in -20C weather in shorts.

Which lead to a funny story...

One day, D shows up at the gaming club (RPGs, table-top miniatures, collectible card games like Magic, etc... yup, I'm a nerd) in a suit. He had to go to court because of an 'incident' that happened at work that he witnessed, and he went to the club to change because it was closer than home.

When D walks in, one of the club's female members says out loud "D, I've never seen you in pants before!"

The club laughed for a good 10 minutes.

That lead to a book of 'quotable quotes' being started. Whenever someone says something that could be taken the 'wrong way' (ie. "I mount the horse" or "I put it in my mouth and it just exploded"), it gets writen down.

[Danno]

Some friends in college collected quotes like that on their wall. Mine was, "I think I'm like Richard Simmons."

Anyway, there's one guy who comes to the custard stand who has some strange tics. He only ever comes through the drive-thru, and he has this severe arm/shoulder jerking thing going on. The first time I met him I briefly thought he was beginning a seizure.

Assuming it's Tourette's, I guess the motions go away when he focuses. Otherwise, the idea of this poor fellow driving scares me a bit.

[Peppergirl]

Im surprised no one has mentioned this, so I will.

Most stores here in the US have a 'no shirt no shoes' policy. Most places will ask a patron to leave if they are not wearing shirt and/or shoes.

Does your store have a policy like that? It's pretty unsanitary to be running around without a shirt. Ewwwww

[Kogarashi]

I was wondering that myself. I know we've "encouraged" customers to leave when they're lacking in the shirt and/or shoes department (or escorted them straight to the relevant clothing sections and then the registers so they could remedy the problem).

Now if only we could extend that to some of the barely-counts-as-a-shirt tops I've seen wandering the stores....

[sammielynn]

I had a manager when I worked as a busser that used to *whoop* (quite loudly) and twitch when he was stressed out. i hate to admit it but.. I thought it was funny