Shaken, not stirred.

[Jessifer]

A customer had a heart attack two lanes behind me today during work just as I was going on my lunch. She wasn't breathing, they did CPR for 10 minutes. Paramedics came and put a tube down her throat so they could get some oxygen into her, apparently they found a faint pulse. I came back from lunch and watched as they wheeled her out of the store. She didn't look good at all.

Three of the cashiers freaked out. I was one of them.

...Yeah. Still a little freaked out.

[Mantralord]

Final Destination 4: Cashier of Doom!

You could be next.

[Jessifer]

...Heh. That was rather amusing...

[Willkillforfood]

Never been around something like that before. I know one time when I came in to work they told me I missed the big action, some guy had a heart attack and pissed the floor. The guy kept complaining about how he had to mop it up ;P.

[Sum Yung Guy]

During basic training, we were getting a safety briefing right before going on this teamwork obstacle course, and one of the guys in my platoon had a seizure right then and his tounge blocked his airway and he died. This was before we had any of the medical training in the first week or so of basic. And the drill sergeants hadn't started the briefing yet, they were off somewhere else on the course having a little pow wow or something.

[Jessifer]

Yeah. There's a kid at work who will have a seizure and black out occasionally. That's kinda scary, too.

[!King_Amazon!]

During basic training, we were getting a safety briefing right before going on this teamwork obstacle course, and one of the guys in my platoon had a seizure right then and his tounge blocked his airway and he died. This was before we had any of the medical training in the first week or so of basic. And the drill sergeants hadn't started the briefing yet, they were off somewhere else on the course having a little pow wow or something.

I couldn't help but laugh at that. I know, I'm a horrible person.

[undeadzombieguy]

During basic training, we were getting a safety briefing right before going on this teamwork obstacle course, and one of the guys in my platoon had a seizure right then and his tounge blocked his airway and he died. This was before we had any of the medical training in the first week or so of basic. And the drill sergeants hadn't started the briefing yet, they were off somewhere else on the course having a little pow wow or something.

I saw a guy having a seizure at the grocery store once. He fell over and busted his head on some racks. Everyone went to look all so I cut in line and got out of there with some stuff. pwned.

[Jessifer]

...GOD. What's wrong with you people?

[sciencekid]

my family once had a roommate who had epilepsy..... he smelled like crap... literally, actual crap.... he lost his bladder and colon control everytime he had a seizure. in essence he shit himself.

[MightyJoe]

Up at my work over the summer, we had a guy who had a seizure. Lucky one of the other employees is becoming a police officer, and knew what to do.

[Adrenachrome]

Cause everybody knows cops know how to deal with seizures

[Willkillforfood]

Up at my work over the summer, we had a guy who had a seizure. Lucky one of the other employees is becoming a police officer, and knew what to do.

Two in the chest one in the head? :P

[Jessifer]

We used to have a paramedic who was working at Meijer for reasons unknown to me. One day a kid fell out of a cart and hit his head on one of the rods sticking out of the turn-tables at the end of the lanes, and it punctured his eyelid. The guy got kinda pissed because the Team Leaders were handling the kid all wrong.

[Lenny]

Fell out of the trolley? Rods? Turntables?!

1. If a kid is in a trolley, either they are strapped into the chair, else they ain't supposed to be in.

2. Rods? Bare rods? Sticking out?! WTF?!

3. Turntables? Can people not direct their own trolleys?

So the guy got pissed? His own fault for not keeping his kid in the trolley right.

[platnum]

Trolleys, hahahahhahahahaa.

[Rurouni Storm]

I work in a hospital ER now. You wouldn't believe what I've seen there.

[Grav]

Have you seen... emergencies? And a room?

[Lenny]

That's what it is. It ain't a "cart" it's a "Trolley".

Cart = http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/DPW/images/1/Cart,%20large%20on%20the%20Quay%20P6130068.JPG

Trolley = http://k43.pbase.com/u35/glorious2/large/35912035.trolley.jpg

Simple.

[khwiii]

You stupid redcoat!

Trolley = http://www.monterey.org/parking/trolley.jpg

Cart = http://www.ecommerce-shopping-cart.biz/pics/cart.jpg

[Lenny]

NoNoNoNoNoNo!

Cart = http://www.monsterlimo.com/images/Store/Blue%20cart%20low%20angle.jpg

Trolley = http://www.cipherweb.com/images/shopping_trolley.jpg

[Kaneda]

Once a guy started having a seizure in a store when my dad and I were shopping. So my dad ran over and stuffed his wallet in the guys mouth.

[sciencekid]

that is just screwed up, dude.

[!King_Amazon!]

Actually I'm pretty sure if someone is having a siezure you're supposed to put something in their mouth. If you don't they could bite off their tongue and choke to death on their own blood.

[Willkillforfood]

I'd have had Kaneda put his hand in the guy's mouth :p.

[Jessifer]

1. People are idiots.

2. The bars are what we slide the grocery bags onto ON the turn-table.

3. Turn-tables are where the grocery's go at the end of the lane after we scan them. They also look roughly like the image attached. And the rods AREN'T that sharp.

In general, the kid was standing up in the cart (because his parents were indeed idiots), his older brother was playing around with the cart resulting in the cart tipping over, the kid then proceeded to fall out of the cart, thusly allowing him to fall into one of the rods on the turn-table, ending in said rod puncturing his eyelid.

And stop saying trolley. It sounds weird. Silly Euro.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/penguu_penguu/turntable.jpg

[Lenny]

But it IS a trolley. :(

Also, I see no image. I might Google it.

Why do you need turntables on the end of the till bit? We just have. The shopping slides down into these spaces and we bag it all.

I hope the kid's family was sued for being stupid.

[Jessifer]

The store was trying to make things more "efficient". Id est, harder for the cashiers and customers.

[Lenny]

More efficient?! What's more efficient than a big open space? Oh! I know! A giant circle that spins and needs King Arthurs Round Table to hold it.

Stupid Shop owners. Bring back the Corner Shop I tells ya!

[Jessifer]

I blame Walmart. ;)

[Lenny]

HA!

Asda is owned by Walmart, and it's my favourite Supermarket. :p Yet they haven't risen to the "Efficiency" bait.

[sciencekid]

sorry, i thought it was to choke the guy, not save him

[Kaneda]

Phff. Wal-mart. You steal stuff from them right? Cause thats like an un-said benifit from working there. I kinda liked working there actually, because me working 50% compacity makes me better than every other employee there. Ha. So I could get away with so much shit. Like kicking boxes of tissues half way across the store and taking long ass breaks cause all my work was done. Oh and all the free things I needed. :D

[Jessifer]

Shiiit...I gotta give 111% working at Meijer. If you mess up on something small they're on your ass in a flash. We're timed on EVERYTHING we do. How fast we're scanning items, how fast we're bagging items, how fast we're tendering the orders, how long it takes to go to and come from breaks, how long we're actually ON breaks...

Of course, that's what Meijer is all about really. Like the motto goes: Higher Standards, Lower Prices.

Fuck that.

[Lenny]

What type of shop do you work for?!

Give it a month or two and they'll be dragging out the chains and the Big Drum.

*BANG*Scan*BANG*Bag*BANG*Scan*BANG*Bag*BANG*Scan*B ANG*Bag

Pick up the pace people! I only see 110%! NO-ONE LEAVES UNTIL WE GET 111%! MARK MY WORDS YA SCURVY DAWGS!

[Jessifer]

Meijer is like a smaller, lesser known version of Walmart. It's expanding though.

And you get excited way too easily.

[Lenny]

Are they part of the Wal*Mart "Family"?

And yes, I'm very excitable some times. I put it down to an overactive imagination...or all these drugs people tell me I take.

[Jessifer]

No. Walmart is like Satan, and Mejier is like...well...not.

[Sovereign]

OOOH OOOH. I drove by a Mejier on my way home yesterday!

First time I've seen one.

[Lenny]

http://www.meijer.com/storelocator/Default.aspx

Which one is yours, Jess?

[khwiii]

http://www.meijer.com/storelocator/unit.aspx?lat=39.099900&long=-84.266700

This one is the one a couple miles from my home.

[Lenny]

Zoom right in and it's in the middle of a lake. :D

[Jessifer]

http://www.meijer.com/storelocator/unit.aspx?lat=42.188100&long=-85.601600

Store #196, y0.

[Lenny]

Ooooh. Opposite the Railway. That must be pretty fun. :)

[Jessifer]

Not really. I also live near it, so it wakes me up in the middle of the night.