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To be annoyed with shop assistant who handed me one measly kitchen towell to mop up sick with?

20 replies

EtonsMessCat · 25/06/2008 19:46

My fault really, I took DD to sainsburys with me. She has been sick today, but was feeling better. She has been sick for days, once a day, so I sort of thought, thats it, all ok now.

Got milk, DD was great, happy, then that look ...the rumble in her belly, managed to escape the aisles and get to near the exit/entrance by customer service, away from food etc.

Then my little almost 2 yo chucked all over me. Missed the floor, I think, but down my cleavage dollops of curdled milk and liquid.

A shop assistant was passing.
"excuse me, could you pass me a cloth or something please, my daughter has just been sick'

'what? oh right' comes back with one paper towel.
'that enough?'
'No, not really, but thanks'

at which point she was already walking off to do something else!

Luckily, I knew where the toilets were, so after several seconds of sort of amazement, I went to toilets where a couple of lovely ladies got me tissue, gave me sympathy.

She was not a young assistant who would not know better.

Should I have just not been bothered about being left covered in puke, my DD covered in puke, crying with one poxy kitchen towel and not so much of a 'toilets are over there' before leaving me to it?

And please dont say I should not have taken her. I know that now!

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southeastastra · 25/06/2008 19:48

silly moo, you should have handed her the sodden towel back with a polite thank you.

EtonsMessCat · 25/06/2008 19:49

I would have, if she stopped long enough for me to know what she looked like! She was gone!

She did not even stop long enough to look horrified!

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southeastastra · 25/06/2008 19:54

she should have reported it though, health and safety and all that.

southeastastra · 25/06/2008 19:55

oh it was only over you! lol still she sounds lazy

EtonsMessCat · 25/06/2008 19:58

Thats a very good point about H&S. And whilst I am pretty sure DD was only sick on me, given the nature of the almost solid sick, I cant be sure, and was not going to hang around waiting for some-one else to come check it out, covered in very smelly vomit. I had other things on my mind .

I felt a bit daft, you know handed a paper towel, and then left, tearful DD, smelly vomit, people looking.

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nancy75 · 25/06/2008 20:04

some people have real issues with sick, maybe she was tyrying to get away asap because it was making her feel sick?

EtonsMessCat · 25/06/2008 20:08

Then she should be honest, 'sorry I am not good with vomit' before a hasty retreat.

Whats wrong with being honest? Better than appearing rude IMO.

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EtonsMessCat · 25/06/2008 20:09

And why does having issues with sick mean she could only pull of ONE towel not three or four, or a reel of it?

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bearmama · 25/06/2008 20:16

No YANBU, thats bad and presents the shop in a VERY unfavourable light. You werent asking her to clean it up.

You could complain - I would.

StrawberryPavlovatheCat · 25/06/2008 20:20

Bearmama - DH said I should complain, but not entirely sure I could identify her, she did not stick around, and I was busy with DD. I think she worked on customer service, DH said that would probably be enough.

It does present them in an unfavourable light to us, for sure. I guess I need an excuse to stop shopping there seeing as we are meant to be on an economy drive. I guess its my penance for not going to Morrisons as I was meant to!

Oh well. I guess some people are just rude. Maybe I will write a general complaint. Get a voucher or something [cynical]

StrawberryPavlovatheCat · 25/06/2008 20:21

Sorry - this i Etonsmesscat, who is actually PavlovtheCat. I need a new name and no-one talks to me as Etonsmesscat!

nkf · 25/06/2008 20:23

Maybe she had another customer on her case. Another woman who will post an AIBU about her later.

nkf · 25/06/2008 20:23

Maybe she had another customer on her case. Another woman who will post an AIBU about her later.

Alambil · 25/06/2008 20:25

They will know by the area she was working on, a rough description and who was on that shift.

DS was regularly sick in a local cafe; not through illness I may add(!) and they used to give us rolls of that blue paper stuff they have in kitchens and let me leave without paying once to go to the shop to get DS some new clothes whilst they kept the sodden buggy et al with them.

This girl needs more training in customer services if that's her normal role!

StrawberryPavlovatheCat · 25/06/2008 20:26

Maybe her shift was about to finish and she could not be arsed with dealing with a stinky mother and her screaming brat covered in sick

...Although, if she was being harrassed by another MNer, perhaps she had no choice but to get a move on!

StrawberryPavlovatheCat · 25/06/2008 20:30

LewisFan- that was sweet of them! The two ladies who helped out were lovely though. I walked through the door of the toilets after some-one went into the mother and baby, and as this young woman noticed I was covered, she said, let me get some tissue for you, passed me a bundle, then got some more for me!' As she left, another women regalled a story of it happening to her, whilst putting the dirty tissues in the bin for me!

AND, even with DD covered in vomitl, she told me that DD was beautiful!

bunchoflowers · 26/06/2008 12:23

Couldn't you have just asked for some more towels? I don't understand.

StrawberryPavlovatheCat · 26/06/2008 17:13

bunchoflowers -ask who? You mean wander around following her until she stopped so I could ask for another lot of towel? As I said, I did not have to stand there too long like an idiot as I remembered where the toilets were, got my own.

She did not stop to see if i actually needed any more, she was gone in a flash.

So, no I could not ask for more towels.

donnie · 26/06/2008 17:16

oh FGS she gave you a paper towel - what did you want? for her to take your bloody clothes home and launder them personally? get a grip . It was your own fault for taking your sick child out in the first place.

whatismyname · 26/06/2008 17:31

YABU You don't take a sick child shopping. stay at home look after her.

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