When You're Out, Urine! And Other Bumfuckery.

[ralerin]

Oh my fucking god, I wasn't having a bad day until I freaked out because Dominos needed a credit card for my online order. Then the universe decided to pay me back with 3 times the crap!

As you tell by my title, there is a lot of pee involved. A lot.

I. DON'T. MAKE. THE. LAWS!

I had one guy come in, pay for Mountain Dew and cupcakes and a Jolt drink with his foodstamp card. The soda and cupcakes went through but not the energy drink.

"You owe me $.97."

"Why?"

"Cuz of the energy drink."

"But you accept foodstamps."

"Yeah, but the drink isn't on foodstamps."

"It says you accept foodstamps."

"Yeah, but the energy drink isn't part of foodstamps. It's got 1800 mg of caffeine in it."

"But you've got a white sign that says that you accept foodstamps right in front of the Jolt!"

"I don't make the laws. If it won't accept it, I can't do anything about it."

"But you accept foodstamps!"

"I don't make the laws."

"You accept foodstamps!"

"I don't make the laws!"

"YOU ACCEPT FOODSTAMPS!"

Guy's friend finally slaps down a dollar. "Dude, shut up. Here's a buck!" I cash it and leave but the original guy walks off, mumbling about how we should pay for his drink because we have foodstamps.

The kicker? There is a sign that says "We accept foodstamps," but it's a tiny white sign in the upper right hand corner of the cooler door. The Jolt is located on the very bottom of the rack in that cooler.

When You're Out...

Please find a better spot than the middle of one of the busiest aisles to pee, please. Whether you're a kid or an adult, just ask if you need to use the restroom. There was a giant puddle of piss that people proceeded to walk in and track all over the store.


...Urine.

There's a semi regular, mentally challenged customer and his caretaker who come in every so often. The mentally challenged customer likes to get quarters or dimes for his dollars and I'm usually happy to change them out. However, after tonight, I am not so happy to anymore.

This is literally 30 seconds after I've finished cleaning my counter so it smells fresh and clean. Guy comes in and wants money, so I get it for him. As he's handing out dollar after excruciating dollar, I'm struck by a sudden smell. And those bills are awfully damp...I lightly smell one.

(Me: OH FUCKING NO )

Ten dollars later, I slam my drawer shut and take off like a bat out of hell. SM and Not So Awesome Manager are coming out of the office, looking at how fast I'm moving.

"Where you going?"

"Wash hands tell you in a minute! *ZOOM*"

5 minutes with some rather burned hands, I go back to my register and tell the managers, who look all .

Not So Awesome Manager tells me I could've refused the money after the fact. I was a little upset.

The still sopping wet bills were swiftly tucked into tonight's bank deposit.

[bainsidhe]

When I still worked at retail hell, I once asked a manager if I could refuse to accept "damp" bills. I was told nope, I still had to take them.

Chalk up another reason for quitting a job that was slowly sucking out my soul.

[underemployeed]

I feel your pain, rather large woman pulled $130 worth of 5s out of her bra to pay for her lottery. This was also during the summer, I saved those bills for the customers I hate.

[TelephoneAngel]

Long time ago this happened.

My exboyfriend and i used to save coins in a tin on a counter and then take them to the bank to exchange for bills when we had about £30 worth, the tin had no lid (important to story)

One day we were putting the coins into the little coin bag when my boyfriend said "I'm not sure if these feel damp".We checked but nothing had been spilled on them, and it was a bit damp with condensation in the kitchen so we decided it was that.

We took them to the bank and exchanged them and started saving up again for the next lot.

One morning soon after that I walked into the kitchen to see one of my cats doing a nice piss into the tin

we reckoned it didnt do it often and it had dried out as the tin was next to a radiator just leaving the coins a bit damp strangely they did not smell of urine at all. It wasnt a proper piss either, more a marking territority piss so there wasnt a whole puddle of urine.

so we gave in coins with cats piss on them to the bank without knowing.

[LadyAndreca]

I guess this kind of makes the guy who paid me something like $80 in sandy, salty, damp ones because he dropped his wallet in the ocean while fishing seem not so bad...

[Kristev]

As I worked with handicapped adults for 5 years, and I've been a part-time janitor for 2, I'd say dealing with ocean water is far more pleasant than dealing with human waste.

[Mystic]

I suddenly am reminded of why I don't like touching money. At all. Ever.

I'm reminded of when I worked at a convenience store and some kids came in to buy some lollies. After I told them what they owed, kid takes money out of his damp, dirty socks. :\

I've also heard stories of places the money goes in strip clubs... all that money goes to the bank and back into peoples pockets.

[underemployeed]

I've also heard stories of places the money goes in strip clubs... all that money goes to the bank and back into peoples pockets.

And this is why it amuses me when people put their money in their mouth then had it to me. grosses me out too but at least I can wash my hands.

[Shalom]

And this is why it amuses me when people put their money in their mouth then had it to me. grosses me out too but at least I can wash my hands.

As far back as the 1200s, Moses Maimonides (who was both a rabbi and a medical doctor) wrote:

4. It is forbidden for a person to place money or coins in his mouth, lest there be the remnants of dried spittle of a diseased person or sweat on them. For all sweat from a person is like poison, except sweat from one's face.

(in the original Hebrew: ד. אסור לאדם ליתן מעות או דינרים לתוך פיו שמא יש עליהן רוק יבש של מוכי שחין או מצורעין או זיעה .שכל זיעת אדם סם המות חוץ מזיעת הפנים)

[telecom_goddess]

I don't do many cash transactions at all...I prefer my nice little clean plastic debit card that *I* can handle

[Sparky]

Back during my bus driving days I had a physically disabled passenger who used to hold his bus fare in his mouth. He had both hands full of his crutches, and it was difficult for him to get money out of his pocket. I did appreciate his efforts to have his fare ready, but he was offended -- and the other passengers were outraged -- that I refused to allow him to spit his fare into my hand.

Too damn bad.

By the way, we didn't get lunch breaks. If we wanted to eat, we'd do it on our 10-minute (if we were lucky) layovers. We often layed over in a spot with no restroom; no place to wash hands.

Hand sanitizer gels hadn't been invented yet.

[Shifty]

This brings back the nightmares of working cash register. I don't want your sweaty money!!! *shudders*