It was the most random thing.
So there I was.
Helping customers at the register because we didn't have enough hours to schedule a cashier right at opening and the manager who was gonna cover the first hour ended up having a health issue that had them coming into the store late.
So I ended up being the manager on register for the first hour.
Which wasn't the worst. Since I'd spent the three hours before that organizing and counting and checking inventory of our shelves and such. So a break of just basically standing there was rather nice.
So I hadn't been doing anything too strenuous for a while.
Mostly was just checking the inventory of our soda fridge and restocking the shelves in it with whatever sodas we still had in stock and such.
When I had a customer come in to pick up an order.
Which yah no big deal they do that all the time.
Except the order was cold food.
Which we usually keep in our fridges back on the aisle so you know...the cold food stays cold.
And since the store was still pretty dead since it was still first thing in the morning I quickly walked back there to grab it and head back up to the customer since there was like nobody else in the store...and if there were people in the store they were still shopping and no where near the front.
But as I was walking back to the front from my jaunt a few aisles away.
I felt liquid dribbling from my nose.
Which first thought is always. "Oh snot."
Because you know, I've been pulling items from overstock and reorganizing and basically messing with dusty shelves for the last few hours. I figured it was just a symptom of dust up my nose and the nose trying to get rid of it or whatever.
Brush my nose against my sleeve to get rid of the annoying sensation since I was carrying the stuff back up to the customer...
And my sleeve is red when pull away.
oh.
Oh no.
Like it's happened before. Rarely. At work. Like rare enough that its really only happens once every 2-3 years where I'll suddenly end up with a bloody nose at work.
And usually it's sometime in the summer...usually earlier in the summer when it first gets hot and the air gets dry.
But it's been a while since I've gotten a bloody nose at work.
And not usually when I'm in the middle of helping a customer.
So it was a matter of quickly tilting my head back. Hoping the blood hadn't started flowing too freely yet. Giving the bag of stuff to the customer and quickly grabbing a paper towel to shove up my nose after they leave and requesting immediate help at the register so I could step off the floor to get the nose bleed under control.
Luckily my petcare person was able to quickly step in before any more customers came up so I could vanish into the breakroom until I could get my nose to stop bleeding.
But it was so random.
Like there was literally not much different I'd been doing today compared to other days of work. For me it was a typical Monday work day.
But in all honestly today has been weird with...health?
I'm blaming it on the full moon yesterday.
But like. I get a bloody nose. A different manager has an allergic reaction and has to leave early, another one has been dealing with an illness and been feeling sick since the weekend, and another manager came in saying they felt like they had food poisioning.
Like....there's currently only 5 of us managers and 4 of us had some sort of health related incident today. Who knows the 5th one may have been feeling off too and not said anything.
But like....what are the odds? It's so crazy that all that happened on the same day.
It did leave me feeling rather cautious about how I was moving around afterwards though. I didn't want to bend down or turn too quickly or whatever and trigger another nose bleed.
Luckily I didn't.
And hopefully like past times it's a one off. Because tomorrow is going to be BUSY. So I can't really afford to have to stop to take care of a bloody nose.
But I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings.
Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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