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No, it wasn't a customer bleeding, it was ME who bled all over a customer's stuff.
The blinds/sunshades at my Aid of Rite are very difficult to get the hang of, and the stick that's used to pull them up and down can pinch people's thumbs. In a sense, they look like these except with a small knob at the end to which the stick attaches. You put the hole in the stick with the knob, twirl it so it catches and then twirl the stick to pull the blinds down or up. The stick has metal joints on it so it can be maneuvered so you can hold it comfortably. It's the metal joints that can pinch and cut you without you realizing.
So I'm pulling out the receipt for the guy I'm ringing to sign, when I look down at my hands and go
at the blood. Then I do a 
at the blood all over the guy's things! I look at my thumb and realize that's where the blood's coming from. It was EVERYWHERE. All that from a tiny, tiny, 1/8th" cut on my thumb. I'm not a heavy bleeder, but the cut must have been bleeding for a few minutes before I realized.
So, result: about $25 in stuff needed to be damaged (customer grabbed replacements), a cut thumb, a wicked embarassed me, one grossed out customer and a grossed out associate who I asked to take over as I zoomed off to stop the bleeding. She only handled the guy's signing the receipt (which was clean) and shoved the blood covered things off to the side.
Attitude Pie
(stolen from somebody who posted that phrase a while ago
)
You know, when I'm in the middle of trying to help you, don't give me any attitude over the fact that you have to pay more for your precious toy cars for your special snowflake grandson; the fact that you need to give your "Healthiness +" card number 3 times, once for the cars and twice because I screwed up and accidently cleared your discount; the fact that you shoved the gum you were paying for away before I could fix the price because some other moron screwed up the sign. Bonus points if you yell at me for causing the problem in the first place. Double bonus if manager A is after me and trying to get my attention with 50 other things, making me distracted and flustered.
Well, maybe if you were patient and understanding and didn't yank everything away as soon as I finished with it, we wouldn't HAVE this problem, now would we?
No, it wasn't a customer bleeding, it was ME who bled all over a customer's stuff.
The blinds/sunshades at my Aid of Rite are very difficult to get the hang of, and the stick that's used to pull them up and down can pinch people's thumbs. In a sense, they look like these except with a small knob at the end to which the stick attaches. You put the hole in the stick with the knob, twirl it so it catches and then twirl the stick to pull the blinds down or up. The stick has metal joints on it so it can be maneuvered so you can hold it comfortably. It's the metal joints that can pinch and cut you without you realizing.
So I'm pulling out the receipt for the guy I'm ringing to sign, when I look down at my hands and go
at the blood. Then I do a at the blood all over the guy's things! I look at my thumb and realize that's where the blood's coming from. It was EVERYWHERE. All that from a tiny, tiny, 1/8th" cut on my thumb. I'm not a heavy bleeder, but the cut must have been bleeding for a few minutes before I realized.So, result: about $25 in stuff needed to be damaged (customer grabbed replacements), a cut thumb, a wicked embarassed me, one grossed out customer and a grossed out associate who I asked to take over as I zoomed off to stop the bleeding. She only handled the guy's signing the receipt (which was clean) and shoved the blood covered things off to the side.
Attitude Pie
(stolen from somebody who posted that phrase a while ago
)You know, when I'm in the middle of trying to help you, don't give me any attitude over the fact that you have to pay more for your precious toy cars for your special snowflake grandson; the fact that you need to give your "Healthiness +" card number 3 times, once for the cars and twice because I screwed up and accidently cleared your discount; the fact that you shoved the gum you were paying for away before I could fix the price because some other moron screwed up the sign. Bonus points if you yell at me for causing the problem in the first place. Double bonus if manager A is after me and trying to get my attention with 50 other things, making me distracted and flustered.
Well, maybe if you were patient and understanding and didn't yank everything away as soon as I finished with it, we wouldn't HAVE this problem, now would we?
I bow before you, you have me beat, LOL. So far I've only managed to cut my lip on a potato chip, and drop an ice cube on my foot to make me bleed all over the kitchen floor 
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