Today, I got head lice, so I went to a store to buy medicated shampoo. When checking out the cashier saw my shampoo and asked me to leave immediately to protect the other customers. He didn't let me buy the shampoo. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I needed to buy a new helmet. When I got to the sports shop, there was only one left in my size and preferred color. Thirty minutes after buying it, my head starts itching. Turns out I paid $40 for lice. FML
Today, my boss called me into his office. I thought I was getting promoted because my sales had been really high lately. My boss shut his door behind me and asked me if I could comb his hair with a lice comb to get rid of his lice. I had to do it to keep my job. FML
Today, at my retail job, I tried on one of our hats. My co-worker told me I shouldn't because I could get lice. I laughed it off and told her I didn't believe her. Man, do I believe her now. FML
Today, I went to get a haircut. I have a pretty bad case of dandruff, so whenever I get one, a lot of it shows. My hairstylist called to her nearby friend twice, then looked at my hair and said, "Blech" under her breath. I got glares when I walked out. FML
Today, as I was waiting in line at the check out, some guy came up behind me, plucked a hair out of my head, and ran off with it. FML
Today, I was tutoring kids at an elementary school. One kid messed up my hair. I said, "Why'd you do that??" He said, "I have lice, now you have lice too!" FML
Today, this guy I like let me wear his favorite baseball hat that he never takes off. I returned it to him later, only to find out I have lice. FML
Today, the checkout guy at my local store asked me if I had my hair cut. I answered and started talking about my hair, and he gave me a really weird look. He was talking to his friend, who I hadn't noticed in the queue behind me. FML
Today, I got a call from my younger brother's school to pick him up immediately. He had a test today, but he had the brilliant idea that by telling everyone he had head lice, he could go home. I had to leave work to pick him up, and now I have to take him to a doctor so they can see if he can go back. FML
Today, I discovered that head lice shampoo can remove the dye from your hair. FML
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FutureMatty 24
Next time grab the shampoo and make a run for it... "To protect the other customers" lol
Roskie 16
I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to do that. You left without asking for the manager?
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Comments (137)
angeluv_2014 22
then why the **** do they sell it??
sietseld 13
I would have said I was buying it for my kid, then he would feel like the ass that he is.
AloysiusWeasley 15
I'm going to buck the trend and say you are really nasty for going out in public with communicable pestilence. The cashier probably knew it was for you because you were standing there scratching and getting them all over the place. When I was in the third grade, I had a playdate and we were styling each other's hair, and her nasty parent didn't bother to say she had lice, and she gave them to me. This was over 20 years ago, and they were resistant to EVERYTHING. I have hair down to the small of my back, and I was one day away from having my head shaved until we discovered white vinegar worked. I missed three weeks of school and had to put up with the humiliation of the school nurse picking at my head every day just to send me home, and because of that, I was then viewed in school as the equivalent of Pigpen. I had no friends, and was still "that dirty kid" in the 7th grade. Lice ruined my social life in school, and you act like it's the worst thing in the world that you were told to leave before you spread that horrible misery to others. You need that medicine? Great, does the Amazon site not work for you?!
SNUBL 4
Calm down. It's not like that everyone that had walked past OP would've gotten it, that's highly unlikely. It's perfectly 'safe' to just buy the shampoo in a store. Yes you had a bad experience with it, and I feel sorry for you but you can't just assume how someone acted.
soccercrystal429 2
While that's an unfortunate event that happened to you...we live in 2013 now and everyone knows that lice are actually attracted to clean hair because it's easier to move around in. When I was a kid I got head lice twice...and it is definitely an unpleasant experience. But this cashier still had no right to deny OP service like that. Does that mean the next time I have a bad cold and need cold medicine, I shouldn't be allowed to go into my local pharmacy to buy cold medicine but rather order it on Amazon...because I'm contagious? That is probably the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Not to mention as many others have said, this cashier had no empirical evidence that the shampoo was even for OP...but regardless of who it's for, the clerk had no right to deny his/her right to be in the store or buy the product. AT LEAST let OP buy the product and leave..being he/she was already there. As someone who's worked in retail for years, I can't even fathom how this was even allowed. But regardless...for you to actually agree with how this was handled and blaming OP for exercising his/her right to walk into a pharmacy and buy the necessary product. He/she wasn't causing any kind of disruption. You know, we as a society take the risk of contracting a cold or any other kind of condition everytime we step foot out the door and touch a doorknob or even come into contact with another individual. But we don't walk around in giant bubbles or quarantine ourselves from others. Live a little!
Deviant_fml 5
My eyes are bleeding from those walls of text XD @122 Yeah, because the OP is going to pay twice as much for the shampoo online (express delivery shipping) to get it days later and just sit there in the meantime suffering... I thought you said in your little story that it was a miserable experience? Why would you want them to prolong that? You were a victim and yet you choose to sympathize with the clerk, who discriminated against the OP because of their condition, not too unlike your abusers in middle school. Nice.
insanelyXnikki 18
You act like the world owes you something. It's highly unlikely that anyone could contract lice from a person unless they were actually making direct contact with their hair. You even said it was over 20 years ago... suck it up and move on with your life.
adrianjb 3
wat a dick
TcheQ 12
You take orders from a lowlife minimum wage cashier? YDI
fantasyworld 39
I would complain.
96isntassexyas69 20
That's awful, OP! FYL.
kenyrabit 25
"You are mistaken. This product is for my child. Now, as a customer, I would appreciate the service."
JairBear241 6
The cashier is stupid, while trying to protect the other customers is honorable, he would've gotten more sales if more people needed the shampoo and he also lost a sale by telling you to leave. If he or she was my employee he'd probably get fired for losing me business
T1A2Z3 35
You should have angrily headbutted him and given him the lice!