Strange behavior of two store employees

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A couple of months ago Wendy's had their frosty drink on sale.

I stopped by my nearby Wendy's for a frosty but the girl acted odd... so I intentionally watched her get my frosty.

While at the frosty machine she licked her fingers.

I told her I saw what you did. Then asked for my money back.

I will never go there again.
 

KingsX said:
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A couple of months ago Wendy's had their frosty drink on sale.

I stopped by my nearby Wendy's for a frosty but the girl acted odd... so I intentionally watched her get my frosty.

While at the frosty machine she licked her fingers.

I told her I saw what you did. Then asked for my money back.

I will never go there again.
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Ugh... NASTY. :yuk: Don't blame you one bit.
 

I had a mildly disturbing experience this morning at the supermarket. I was about to get some of their cut watermelon (sitting on ice, looked delicious) when an elderly lady standing next to me kept removing the
plastic wrap from one piece after another and sniffing each piece, then recovering it and picking up another one! I just sort of glared at her, and she looked kind of embarrassed but did not stop sniffing.

I walked away and went to another counter which was selling whole (baby) watermelons, and ended up getting one of those. At least, if she sniffed any of those, it was only the outside.

Should I have said something to her? Not sure. Maybe dementia? I could have reported her to the manager, but didn't know how big a deal to make out of it.
 
Sunny said:
I had a mildly disturbing experience this morning at the supermarket. I was about to get some of their cut watermelon (sitting on ice, looked delicious) when an elderly lady standing next to me kept removing the
plastic wrap from one piece after another and sniffing each piece, then recovering it and picking up another one! I just sort of glared at her, and she looked kind of embarrassed but did not stop sniffing.

I walked away and went to another counter which was selling whole (baby) watermelons, and ended up getting one of those. At least, if she sniffed any of those, it was only the outside.

Should I have said something to her? Not sure. Maybe dementia? I could have reported her to the manager, but didn't know how big a deal to make out of it.
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You were smart to move on... she might have been another "Typhoid Mary."
Pity the poor customer who bought one later.

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Sunny said:
I had a mildly disturbing experience this morning at the supermarket. I was about to get some of their cut watermelon (sitting on ice, looked delicious) when an elderly lady standing next to me kept removing the
plastic wrap from one piece after another and sniffing each piece, then recovering it and picking up another one! I just sort of glared at her, and she looked kind of embarrassed but did not stop sniffing.

I walked away and went to another counter which was selling whole (baby) watermelons, and ended up getting one of those. At least, if she sniffed any of those, it was only the outside.

Should I have said something to her? Not sure. Maybe dementia? I could have reported her to the manager, but didn't know how big a deal to make out of it.
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You should have reported her.

Dementia? :confused: Seriously? That term seems to be used and mis-used far too often here on SF to explain/excuse inappropriate behavior.
 
RR, there's no way to know what she is thinking, and I don't see where that matters. She should not be removing the wrapping and putting her nose into food that's going to be purchased by other customers.
 
I think I should have reported her, out of consideration for the other customers who were going to buy the slices. I'm sorry I didn't.
 
Camper6 said:
I think they were robbing the place.
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Do you mean the two FD employees? Possible. They could have been stealing things, but they'd need a vehicle to put things in although they may have had someone drive up and help, then drive off with a load because there were NO cars in the parking lot.
 
A great unique post that could be used as a TV "What Would You Do" episode.


Set up


Empty parking lot at 1 p/m
Store employees not present
Employee scratching himself
Explanation they were organizing the backroom for customers [not many customers shop in a back room]


A lot of elements that are unusual, but unusual are triggers suspicion & our sense of self preservation.
 
applecruncher said:
I think that's reeeeeeeally stretching things.
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Not if one believes in what some people call fate... that not only do actions have reactions...
but those actions and reactions help determine our destiny. Think of it as a minor version
of an off duty firefighter who just happens to be driving down the street at the right time and
place to save a child from a burning building. Another version might be... you are ready to
leave in your car, but can't find your keys. You are annoyed while you spend several minutes
looking for them. But what you might not know is that those several minutes looking for your keys
might have spared you from an auto accident. Synchronicity, fate, destiny... such things happen
to us everyday, but we are not aware.

Even the Weather Channel refers to this in their interesting series called, "Twist of Fate."

Another poster and I touched on this subject on another topic

https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/36225-Was-it-really-necessary/page2?p=844341#post844341

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I would think if Sunny was spared from getting ill because of the crazy lady molesting the cut fruit, then somebody else would have gotten ill from that group of products instead.
 
Olivia said:
I would think if Sunny was spared from getting ill because of the crazy lady molesting the cut fruit, then somebody else would have gotten ill from that group of products instead.
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Yes, fate/destiny happens both ways.

In my example, if someone loses their car keys and the lost time saves them from an auto accident, their action might cause someone else to be involved in that accident. Or, being annoyed by "wasting" time looking for car keys might the be the action and attitude that causes an accident. The universal interplay of action and reaction... cause and effect... can sometimes be bewildering.

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The watermelon looked perfectly delicious, and I'm sure I wouldn't have had a bad health experience from eating it, at least not until that woman started breathing her germs all over it.

We all want to "mind our own business," not be a grouchy old curmugeon, etc. So my initial impulse was to walk away (and buy a whole watermelon instead). But I should have intervened.

I can't imagine what she thought she was smelling the fruit for. I do know that one way to determine if a canteloupe or honeydew is ripe is by smelling the (whole) melon. It should smell a little sweet. Never heard of anyone
smelling a watermelon, though, not even an intact one. Smelling a cut melon makes no sense at all.

That's why I thought maybe she had dementia. Maybe she got confused about melon-smelling.
 
Hopefully the incident will be brought to the store manager's attention. You did right by reporting it.
 
KingsX said:
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A couple of months ago Wendy's had their frosty drink on sale.

I stopped by my nearby Wendy's for a frosty but the girl acted odd... so I intentionally watched her get my frosty.

While at the frosty machine she licked her fingers.

I told her I saw what you did. Then asked for my money back.

I will never go there again.
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Long time ago I went to a Carvel with a friend. When we walked in the girl was playing with her hair, so I decided I wanted a cone but asked her to put it in a cup (they are supposed to use napkins to grab the cone). She said "We're not supposed to do that" I said well you're not supposed to be playing with your hair before you serve customers either. I got my cone in a cup. At another Carvel, years later...an elderly gentleman served me. I couldn't believe it when he licked his fingers after wiping the slight drip off my cone then handed the cone to me. Of course I told him about himself (nicely) and left.
 
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