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Things your cashier does not want to know:
1. anything regarding your medical history, current medical condition, or pertaining to appointments or procedures that may have occurred that day
2. THAT YOU HAVE HAD A PELVIC EXAM TODAY!!!!
Yes, it happened. So, for future reference, please keep news of examinations of your nether regions to yourself.
Within the last month I also had a 70 year old woman tell me that she needed someone to push her cart to her van and put the bags in for her because she had undergone a mammogram that morning. I did not need to know that she had a mammogram, she could have just asked for help. She had actually mentioned this mammogram several times to anyone she encountered as waddled through the store.
I've had a mammogram. It was annoying and a little anxiety producing, but it was neither painful or tiring. I was somewhat dismayed by her constant complaining about it, because while I'm sure she only wanted attention, I don't like anything that makes breast health sound even more off putting to the general population than it already does. They are a normal part of maintaining your health, not something you crow about to strangers at the local discount store to get fake sympathy.
I have also been told on other occasions that someone has a inoperable brain tumor or that they are waiting to have a miscarriage. Frankly, I had no idea how to respond to this information beyond the obligatory, "I'm sorry to hear that." These people were obviously feeling lonely and in need of comfort to be mentioning this to the person ringing up their deodorant and potato chips. I wish I'd had something more to say to them, but I was like a deer in headlights in both instances.
1. anything regarding your medical history, current medical condition, or pertaining to appointments or procedures that may have occurred that day
2. THAT YOU HAVE HAD A PELVIC EXAM TODAY!!!!
Yes, it happened. So, for future reference, please keep news of examinations of your nether regions to yourself.
Within the last month I also had a 70 year old woman tell me that she needed someone to push her cart to her van and put the bags in for her because she had undergone a mammogram that morning. I did not need to know that she had a mammogram, she could have just asked for help. She had actually mentioned this mammogram several times to anyone she encountered as waddled through the store.
I've had a mammogram. It was annoying and a little anxiety producing, but it was neither painful or tiring. I was somewhat dismayed by her constant complaining about it, because while I'm sure she only wanted attention, I don't like anything that makes breast health sound even more off putting to the general population than it already does. They are a normal part of maintaining your health, not something you crow about to strangers at the local discount store to get fake sympathy.
I have also been told on other occasions that someone has a inoperable brain tumor or that they are waiting to have a miscarriage. Frankly, I had no idea how to respond to this information beyond the obligatory, "I'm sorry to hear that." These people were obviously feeling lonely and in need of comfort to be mentioning this to the person ringing up their deodorant and potato chips. I wish I'd had something more to say to them, but I was like a deer in headlights in both instances.