Urine =/= water!

[Spiffy McMoron]

Chances are that a child's urine is gonig to be cleaner than an adult's i.e. it probably will not be carrying the clap.

Plus, an adult should know better than to pee on the floor, whereas, a child might not be properly potty-trained, or have on a poor diaper. Although this doesn't make it fun, it makes it more tolerable, knowing that it really wasn't the childs fault.

[LostMyMind]

You know, all this ickyness talk. I figure I'll throw in another ickyness level.

Some folks actually drink that yellow water for health reason

[thegiraffe]

Urine is sterile to the body it comes from. To other people, however, it's NOT sterile. Your manager should have told you what you were cleaning up without a doubt.

[Lehk]

if a manager told me to clean up "water" when it was actually piss, i would "accidentally" bump them with the wet broom and by accidentally i mean lift it up and lay it over their shoulder when they are looking the other way.

then i would quit.

OTOH i wouldn't have a problem cleaning up some piss if they told me what it was. working in dairy i come in contact with much nastier things than human urine on a daily basis

[varmintjane]

if a manager told me to clean up "water" when it was actually piss, i would "accidentally" bump them with the wet broom and by accidentally i mean lift it up and lay it over their shoulder when they are looking the other way.

then i would quit.

Awesome

[AFpheonix]

He should have told you what is was, I agree. What would have happened if you'd spread it across the floor to dry as you were planning? That aisle would have a definite stale pee funk, for sure!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

if a manager told me to clean up "water" when it was actually piss, i would "accidentally" bump them with the wet broom and by accidentally i mean lift it up and lay it over their shoulder when they are looking the other way.

then i would quit.

OTOH i wouldn't have a problem cleaning up some piss if they told me what it was. working in dairy i come in contact with much nastier things than human urine on a daily basis

Thank you. I now have coffee all over my screen. That stuff kind of hurts when you snoogie it out of your nose.

[dragonflygrrl]

I'm having a hard time trying to figure how any decent parent/human being would allow this scenario to occur. First of all, if your offspring isn't potty trained, put a diaper or a Pull-Up or something on it when you take it out in public. Second, if it is somehow able to circumvent the diaper and pee on the floor, that is officially your problem, not the employees' problem. How do you just leave that there for someone else to deal with? Gahd, people, I swear! Grrrrr...

[kerrisan]

What would have happened if you'd spread it across the floor to dry as you were planning? That aisle would have a definite stale pee funk, for sure!

Haha, if it were just a stench that would be the only problem, it would be my manager's problem!

Him: Why didn't you mop the floor?
Me: It was just water, right? Why clean plain ol' water?

[MadMike]

I'm having a hard time trying to figure how any decent parent/human being would allow this scenario to occur. First of all, if your offspring isn't potty trained, put a diaper or a Pull-Up or something on it when you take it out in public. Second, if it is somehow able to circumvent the diaper and pee on the floor, that is officially your problem, not the employees' problem. How do you just leave that there for someone else to deal with? Gahd, people, I swear! Grrrrr...

You got me on that one. A guy I worked with at the home improvements store told me that he caught some guy letting his kid, who was presumably potty-trained, whip it out in the middle of the store and let loose on the floor.

That was before I started working there, and for that, I am thankful.

[kerrisan]

A guy I worked with at the home improvements store told me that he caught some guy letting his kid, who was presumably potty-trained, whip it out in the middle of the store and let loose on the floor.

Guuuh. Did this guy tell you if the customer got a talkin' to?

[Titi]

What's with all of the pullup BS? If the child is training and out in public then it is on the PARENT to take the child to bathroom when they say they need to go, even if the child really doesn't need to go you take them.

I had a friend who always put her son into a pullup anytime they went out of the house and was wondering why her 5 (and yes I did say 5) year old wasn't completely pottytrained yet. She took away the pullups and he was ready to go to kindergarten the next year.

My own experience was with my daughter who told me, "mommy buy me panties and I'll go PP on the potty" and then only had 2 accidents (in the house (because someone was in the bathroom where her potty was and taking a long time and she didn't tell me to help her onto the other one because as she said I still can't wash my hands. (her step stool to the sink is in the same bathroom.) I'm talking even overnight)

[dragonflygrrl]

MadMike, once at a hotel we went down to the pool area to soak in the hottub just in time to see a seven or eight year old boy urinating into it while his parents complacently played in the shallow end of the pool. When I said, "Oh come on, that's disgusting," the father said, "Well, the chlorine keeps it clean," like it was no biggie to get in a hot tub his kid had just peed in.