Skin Diseases, Body Fluids. (Gross)

[ralerin]

*shudder* Quite honestly, people with skin diseases, people with ooozing or bleeding cuts and sores on their hands and people who hand me sopping wet money while smelling to high heaven creep me out the most.

Example of each!

1. Doll Lady-I call her that because she literally reminds me of one of those china dolls gone horribly, terribly wrong. Black hair pulled back into a pollyanna (part of the hair pulled into a ponytail and the rest left loose), bright, rouge-y red cheeks, mascara and fake eyelashes falling off, pink lipstick pink sweater and white pants and skin white as death because of how dried out it is. Her hands are covered in open sores and healing sores and dried, white, cracked skin. And she ALWAYS insists on somehow touching my hands during the transaction. Not an accidental touch, she makes sure to get both my palms and the backs in one swoop. Sends me scurrying for the hand sanitizer the instant she leaves. Also insists on hanging about and she has this very odd sweet/sour/rotting smell.

2. I know I mentioned AIDS Dude in one of my first threads here. I have a variation on the theme. One of my customers came in once to buy a jug of wine. I know I mentioned her before, has cerebral palsy or else had a stroke (and she's fairly young, I'd say late 30's), one side of her body doesn't quite work properly. Normally I'm happy putting the jug of wine she buys into her purse, but she had cut herself a few minutes before she came into the store and had struggled with opening the purse so her blood was ALL OVER it. I just couldn't bring myself to touch it and before I could grab gloves, she said, "Oh, nevermind!" and shoved her wine in with a bit of an irritated sigh.

3. Guy came in the other night, looking scruffy and unkempt and smelling slightly. He paid for a candy bar (I think it was) with a soaking wet dollar bill. Middle of winter, his "not all there because brain cells fried from too much drugs/drink" look and the smell made it obvious it wasn't plain water, it was, shall we say, flavored with waste from his kidneys. Blegh. And just before him I had a woman with gigantic bits of hanging and peeling skins from her hands. Hand sanitizer, twice in less than a minute.

[RetailWorkhorse]

she has this very odd sweet/sour/rotting smell.

Her ketones are big time messed up. I bet if I took one of my ketone-strips and laid it against her skin she'd show up all reddish-black (Meaning positive for massive sugar dump).

Icky smell, though.

[Aethian]

Thats what I was going to say. When we finally went to the second doctor who said yes I was diabetic I was giving off the same scent at work. I personally, couldn't smell it.

Should watch out on the hand sanitizer and not excuse using that for good ol soap and water. It can seriously damage your hands after too much use.

[Anakah]

I can't even use that sanitizer stuff, dries my skin out and makes it break out. Not a pretty signt. I have discovered some anti-bacterial hand lotion at walmart. Works pretty good and keeps your hands from drying out.

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

I suffer from pretty bad dermatitis on both my hands and feet, it gets so bad that my hands will usually end up bleeding and it's hard to use them and difficult to work with since i'm a cashier. I find that hand sanitizer will sting the wounds if I use it, I have cream and I wrap my hands in gladwrap at night and sleep like that.

It's not fun and downright painful at times and very embarrassing if people see cause they treat me like I have the plague.

I haven't had it in almost 2 years now so I hope I may have grown out of it.

[AirHostess]

I have a germ phobia...I am always using that hand sanitiser. It's brill.

I had a woman watch me apply my chasptick and then the dirty cow wanted to use it....

She also had a massive oozing cold sore and she wanted to use MY chapstick. Yuck yuck yuck.

I have sympathy for anyone who has a skin disease, I myself am still prone to mild adult acne but it's kept in check.

Oh and I don't touch bodily fluids ever.

[Hobbs]

I suffer from pretty bad dermatitis on both my hands and feet, it gets so bad that my hands will usually end up bleeding and it's hard to use them and difficult to work with since i'm a cashier. I find that hand sanitizer will sting the wounds if I use it, I have cream and I wrap my hands in gladwrap at night and sleep like that.

It's not fun and downright painful at times and very embarrassing if people see cause they treat me like I have the plague.

I haven't had it in almost 2 years now so I hope I may have grown out of it.

I had something like that once. My doctor prescribed Lotrizone (spell that right?).

Very embarrassing indeed, and difficult since I was a flautist.

[poofy_puff]

This is why I wash my hands after EVERY time I touch money. You just don't know where it has been. I read somewhere once that "they" did a study and found traces of cocaine on every piece of paper money "they" tested. Never mind that there are DRUGS on your money. The money has been shoved up someone's NOSE. And, people keep money in their shoes sometimes, and women put it in their bras, etc.

I carry Moist Towelettes (instead of hand sanitizer) for when I can't get near soap and water.

[Hobbs]

, and women put it in their bras

Oh, God, I had almost forgotten about that. I hate it when they do that...

[crazylegs]

I read somewhere once that "they" did a study and found traces of cocaine on every piece of paper money "they" tested.

Ah,

It's not because the money is tainted... A UK university undertook a study and sent brand new blank paper (same size/weight) to several counting stations then tested it upon it's return. All the paper came back positive. It's the counting machines that are tainted, rather than every fiver having been inserted into a nostril!

[SuperB]

Winter is very hard on people with eczema and psoriasis, neither of which are a danger to anyone else. People need to be understanding, not critical of situations they have no control over.

[Lioness Blackfire]

it was, shall we say, flavored with waste from his kidneys.

Ewww...
Great phrasing, though.

Winter is very hard on people with eczema and psoriasis, neither of which are a danger to anyone else. People need to be understanding, not critical of situations they have no control over.

Still, it's one thing to just be having an outbreak and quite another to make an effort to touch the cashier's hands while you're having an outbreak. Of course, doing that is rather dubious to begin with.

[poofy_puff]

Ah,

It's not because the money is tainted... A UK university undertook a study and sent brand new blank paper (same size/weight) to several counting stations then tested it upon it's return. All the paper came back positive. It's the counting machines that are tainted, rather than every fiver having been inserted into a nostril!

Oh, cool! But, that would mean the counting machines are tainted with snot, sweat, and phlegm, too! Yum!

[Pagan]

This is why I wash my hands after EVERY time I touch money.

That's kind of hard to do when you have a line 10 deep at pick-up, 4 people waiting at drop-off, and 25 prescriptions in fill.

I carry Moist Towelettes (instead of hand sanitizer) for when I can't get near soap and water.

Monk?

[Dawnchaser]

I suffer from pretty bad dermatitis on both my hands and feet, it gets so bad that my hands will usually end up bleeding and it's hard to use them and difficult to work with since i'm a cashier. I find that hand sanitizer will sting the wounds if I use it, I have cream and I wrap my hands in gladwrap at night and sleep like that.

It's not fun and downright painful at times and very embarrassing if people see cause they treat me like I have the plague.

I haven't had it in almost 2 years now so I hope I may have grown out of it.

I have psoriasis, and I am told it can go into remission. Might come back later, might not.

I really wish it would go away, just for awhile.