Cancer...of the LIVAH! (Grossness)

[Gaki]

Okay, wheeeeewwww....haha. Just one day and so much to tell all of you! This day was actually quite pleasant and most of these things actually made me laugh a little bit but mostly because I just had two days off and I get two MORE days. Haha. This was the island in the midst of floating in the ocean with my floaties and tropical fruit drink...with the umbrella.

I crashlanded.

Anyways, THE EVIL OF THE MUMBLER.

Me: Hi, how can I help you?
SC: (mumble, mumble)
Me: Okay, you want lottery?
SC: Yeah...(mumble mumble)
Me: *rips off tickets*
SC: No...no...this one...(mumble)
Me: *puts one back, rips another*
SC: How did you get 18 from when I said 19? 19...jeez. (mumbles)
Me: ...

You forgot who you are...already?

Caller: Hi, I'm Dumb Ass, I called for your manager.
Me: My manager has stepped out for the day, if you wish to contact him you'll have to call back between 6 and 2.
Caller: Well...I was just calling him back, he called me first.
Me: Okay...would you like me to take a message?
Caller: No...I just, I'm calling him back.
Me: ...um...okay. Would you like me to leave him a note that you called?
Caller: BUT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM!!!
Me: You're...(I was going to say, "you're Dumb Ass, you told me that earlier", but I didn't want to be rude.) Okay, do you want to leave me your name and number for him to call you back?
Caller: Yes. I'm Mr. Ass and my number is XXX-XXXX.
Me: Okay, note taken, goodbye. *click*

Fiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrreeee!!! I am man, I make fiiiiiiirrrrrreeee.

Soooo, I read the epic thread on here about people throwing cigarette butts everywhere and things starting on fire...well...here is mine. Today my coworker walks in and I ask her to do something for me and she puts up her hand and says:

"No...no...I have to go put out the fire."

Some butthead threw their butt in our mulch and set the mulch on fire. It's the first time I've ever seen the landscaping in flames. Hmm.

LIVER CANCER: I don't care.

So when I was gone my CW had to deal with a problem that I am not envious of. A man walks into the store wearing gray sweatpants (relevant!) and he's a HULK of a man. She's walking out of the bathroom and a woman walks in as she's going out. The man nearly BOWLS HER OVER (she's NOT SMALL) trying to get into the WOMAN'S room.

CW: Sir, this is the woman's room.
SC: I know, I have an emergency, the men's room is full and I need to get to a toilet!
CW: There is a woman in there now, sir, once she comes out you can go in but not before. After she comes out you can use it and I'll stand by the door for you.
SC: *waits for CW to walk a few steps away and then goes into the bathroom*
Surprised Woman: OMG! *runs out to CW* There's a MAN in the WOMAN'S room, with his PANTS DOWN!
CW: Oh my goodness, I am SO SORRY, I told him he had to wait!
SW: Oh my god...oh my god, I didn't even get to wash my hands, he scared me!
CW: Here, hand sanitizer.

When he came out:

CW: Sir, that was inappropriate, you were supposed to wait until she was out of the bathroom!
SC: I HAD AN EMERGENCY!
CW: I don't CARE, you INVADED that woman's PRIVACY, that is a WOMAN'S ROOM you BARGED INTO!
SC: DO YOU KNOW HOW IT IS TO HAVE LIVER CANCER?!
CW: You know what sir? I don't care! All I care about is that what you did was unacceptable!
SC: DO YOU KNOW?!
CW: You should have waited, if you waited that long you could have waited a tiny bit longer, all she had to do was wash her hands, there is NO EXCUSE for you to just barge in and invade her privacy!
SC: I HAVE LIVER CANCER, IT WAS AN EMERGENCY!
CW: WELL GET THIS STRAIGHT, I DON'T CARE!!!

She then found out that he'd shit all over the floor anyway so he could have just gone into the men's room and squatted down on the bare tile floor and it wouldn't have made much of a difference.

He then also shit his gray sweat pants anyway while he was yelling at her about his liver cancer or whatnots. So the whole thing was in vain and he had a very obvious stain on his sweatpants.

EDIT: Forgot this one.

SC: *hands me a $100*
Me: *lightheartedly* Oh! I hope I have change!
SC: With the amount of gas you guys sell here you might not HAVE CHANGE?!
Me: ...no. We don't keep that kind of money in our drawer. We drop most of it in the safe.
SC: WELL THE SAFE BETTER BE CLOSE BY.
Me: Um...well I think I have change which is good because...I can't get into the safe.
SC: WELL THEN YOU BETTER OR WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
Me: ...right. (No...no...YOU have a problem, I'm not the one the cops will be picking up later.)

[LillFilly]

Sooo...What happened with 100$ guy?

And ewww on nasty sweatpant man. On that topic, we get women not making it to the toilets in our restroom all the time. I don't know why they don't plan better; it seems to be the same women every time and our bathrooms have been in the same place for 30 years!

[Gaki]

I gave him all tens and fives. I had twenties but if you're gonna be a jerk about it, you don't deserve them.

I try to make it so they have a hard time fitting the wad into their wallet, and if that means ten ones, that means ten ones. Hah. I'm such a horrible person...

[tropicsgoddess]

Ugh....the "I have <insert illness> " card. I just hoped that he got a dose of humiliation with walking out in public in shit-stained sweats after barging into the ladies bathroom.

[XCashier]

Ugh....the "I have <insert illness> " card. I just hoped that he got a dose of humiliation with walking out in public in shit-stained sweats after barging into the ladies bathroom.

People who crap all over public restrooms generally don't care what other people think about them. They have no shame, thus their rotten behavior. And the rest of us have to suffer for it.

[Kristev]

That's my job, to prevent you from suffering from it. But that doesn't mean I don't suffer. My clothes, after a shift, are completely disgusting.

[tollbaby]

errr, my father-in-law just died of liver cancer.

1- if he was that sick, he wouldn't be a huge hulking guy, he'd be wasting away.

2- liver cancer doesn't make you shit your pants. It generally halts digestion of any kind and is very unpleasant - even with laxatives on a daily basis, patients generally have to struggle just to have a bowel movement.

3- Man up and clean up your mess when you make one. My son once had ... um digestive issues in a store bathroom, and I cleaned it up myself. I would never leave something like that as a surprise for someone to find.

[Gaki]

errr, my father-in-law just died of liver cancer.

1- if he was that sick, he wouldn't be a huge hulking guy, he'd be wasting away.

2- liver cancer doesn't make you shit your pants. It generally halts digestion of any kind and is very unpleasant - even with laxatives on a daily basis, patients generally have to struggle just to have a bowel movement.

3- Man up and clean up your mess when you make one. My son once had ... um digestive issues in a store bathroom, and I cleaned it up myself. I would never leave something like that as a surprise for someone to find.

I KNEW HE WAS FULL OF IT!!! Thank you for clearing that up, and I'm sorry for your loss. I hate it when people take some real issue and try to put it to themselves, it's like stealing sympathy. I consider it theft...

I can't even leave a stall if everything isn't totally flushed from the bowl. It's almost my worst nightmare to leave a mess in the bathroom...I have a social anxiety issue where I'm constantly worrying about how the employees of a place will think of me. I actually have to go through a line several times before I've psyched myself up to actually go up to the counter...it frightens me that much.

I couldn't imagine being so heartless.

[Ree]

1- if he was that sick, he wouldn't be a huge hulking guy, he'd be wasting away.

2- liver cancer doesn't make you shit your pants. It generally halts digestion of any kind and is very unpleasant - even with laxatives on a daily basis, patients generally have to struggle just to have a bowel movement.

Not to argue the point, tollbaby, but my mother does have a form of cancer in her liver, and has had it for several years.
They are a very slow growing form called carcinoids.
They can cause chronic, explosive diarrhea, and she quite often has had sudden bowel movements without warning.
(She usually wears an adult diaper.)

Even with all of that, she never really showed any signs of extreme weight loss until just recently, when she started to develop dementia and forgot to eat.

In fact, we all wondered about the fact that she was still a fairly large woman and didn't seem to be failing at all.

Aside from that, I do feel for the guy's situation, but he could have cleaned up his mess. My mother always did.

[tollbaby]

Ah, my bad Ree... Of course there would HAVE to be more than one form of liver cancer, wouldn't there? Not enough that there's one painful unpleasant way to die from it. *grumble* (sorry, still bitter - took them two years to diagnose after he first got sick, and then he was gone in a week).

[DemoDiva]

I honestly feel sorry for sweatpants man. I had cancer (lymphoma, not liver cancer) when I was a teenager and it makes your body do disgusting and unpredictable things at times. I can sympathise with not really knowing what to do in a situation like like, especially if you're sick and are running out of options.

I would never intentionally leave a mess like that, but I wonder if this guy really knew what to do. A woman freaked out audibly while he was having embarrassing digestive problems, and to top all that off, he finds out that he has made a giant mess. What's he supposed to clean it with? That flimsy sham ply-less nonsense they call public restroom toilet paper? His sweatpants?

To add insult to injury, he probably didn't get it all out and then ended up being sick in his pants. Cancer is a ruthless disease and it makes you humiliated all the time. I once had a similar episode in a movie theatre. I ran all the way to the most secluded bathroom there and was in there for about 25 minutes. I didn't mess up the entire room, but there's a limit to how much you can clean up after yourself in a public toilet stall.

Anyway, I think the way your manager reacted was incredibly inappropriate, drawing attention to him, calling him out and yelling about how much she doesn't care about his situation. I'd have been mortified, myself.

Just my $0.02.

[Solumina]

There is no excuse for him barging into a woman's bathroom, especially not when he knew that there was a woman in there, and even more so that he had his pants down before he was in a stall. What he did is very much illegal and if an employee had allowed him to go in then they and the store could be held liable for any emotional damages (and yeah havign a guy expose himself to you can cause some emotional damages). I feel bad for the guy and all it is a sucky situation but you can't just break the law because you have cancer and you don't get a free pass for doing something that you were specifically told that you cannot do.

[Gaki]

Anyway, I think the way your manager reacted was incredibly inappropriate, drawing attention to him, calling him out and yelling about how much she doesn't care about his situation. I'd have been mortified, myself.

Just my $0.02.

To be honest I felt kinda bad for him too, except that if a man walked into that room with me in it I would be MORTIFIED. I'm kinda a prude, I think I'd be so scared I might cry. I wasn't there and maybe my other CWs played it up but it sounded like she did mean business when she was yelling at him.

She's not my manager either, my manager would have handled that a little bit differently (he's more of a speak softly and carry a big stick kinda guy) and a little bit better, however I'm not sure how he would have dealt with being utterly ignored.

I've seen worse though, at least this guy GOT to a bathroom. There was an issue at another gas station where a guy was wearing WHITE sweatpants and they couldn't let him use the bathroom he was screaming for because it was employees only and you had to go through an office to get there.

He screamed and yelled and of course his white sweatpants weren't so white after that...and it was apparently A LOT. Caught all on tape. *shivers* Of course he didn't go on about some disease as his excuse so I dunno why exactly that happened.

[Seshat]

On that topic, we get women not making it to the toilets in our restroom all the time. I don't know why they don't plan better; it seems to be the same women every time and our bathrooms have been in the same place for 30 years!

It's called urge incontinence. Once your mind knows it's 'almost safe to go', it starts releasing the sphincters.

And many people with it are too embarassed to actually go to a continence clinic or wear an adult diaper. Though most of the cloth ones look exactly like normal panties; and the clinic can cure most types of incontinence.


Tollbaby and Ree: I'm so sorry.

[ralerin]

There is no excuse for him barging into a woman's bathroom, especially not when he knew that there was a woman in there, and even more so that he had his pants down before he was in a stall. What he did is very much illegal and if an employee had allowed him to go in then they and the store could be held liable for any emotional damages (and yeah having a guy expose himself to you can cause some emotional damages). I feel bad for the guy and all it is a sucky situation but you can't just break the law because you have cancer and you don't get a free pass for doing something that you were specifically told that you cannot do.

To my knowledge, NH now allows (not sure if they repealed it after an outrage) men to go into women's rooms.

Yep.