So yesterday I went into work, my manager left. No big deal, we're a small store and we usually only ever have one employee working at any given time. I was there for about an hour when a group of regulars came in. A few men with disabilities and their caretaker. Very nice people, I like to help them. Well they're browsing, making their selections when the caretaker comes up to me and asks...."Do you have any latex gloves?" I'm immediately concerned that someone has aids and they're bleeding all over the store (I know that's silly and it wasn't the case.) But I start looking for the gloves and I can't find any in our cleaning supplies or our first aid kit. I let her know this and she says, "Okay well we'll just see how he does on his own, where is your bathroom?" I show her where it is, even though the "bad" feeling is settling in.
So after an hour and twenty minutes she comes back up and lets me know that there has been an accident and she has tried to clean it up but to no avail, she doesn't know what to do, do I have a mop, ect. Well, I say, "Is it pretty bad?" To which she responds, "YES!" I let her know that it was no problem and I would take care of it and not to worry. She was really embarrassed didn't know what to do....I told her that it would be okay and I'd put an out of order sign on the door until I had some time to clean up. Well, once things died down in the store I went back to the bathroom to see what had happened. Well, there was poop everywhere. I don't know how it GOT everywhere but it was all over the place. Then, the smell hit me. And the only toilet is filled to the brim with poop water. And she has tied up the trashbag with the papertowels that she used to try and clean the mess up with in it, so no trashcan, no toilet, the sink isn't really an option so I throw up all over the poopy floor. Yeah. So after cleaning the puke and the poo on the floor I move on to the clogged toilet. I plunged that toilet for about an hour before I realized that there was probably a shoe in there or something that would not go down and I should probably call the plumber. I called my manager instead who said to leave the rest for the morning crew. Which is what I did....(sorry.....) But that has to be the worst day of work....ever. I hope you enjoyed reading it and you didn't gag too much. As for me, I haven't been able to get the poop smell out of my nose.
