Crazy Custy Shows Off Heart Surgery Scar

Perky here.

Hope things are going well for you. My morning started off a bit slow but went from normal to freaky in about 5 seconds flat.

I was standing at the end of my belt when a crusty walked up to me. He was about mid 40ish, pretty normal looking. He asked if there was any way he could get some help getting down a kayak (yep, we sell kayaks over the summer. There is couple of them that are left and on sale.)

I said, "Sure no problem let me get someone over here to help."This isn't an unreasonable request since the kayaks are a bit bulky. He could have left it at that.

So I blink my light for my supervisor to come over and call up one of the stockers from the back to help.

The crusty goes on to say "I would get one down myself, but I just had heart surgery."

I reply, "Sorry to hear that. I hope you are feeling better."

Of course I'm thinking if you just had heart surgery maybe you should be rethinking this kayak, but who knows maybe it's a gift. And anyways he didn't need to offer any excuses for asking for help getting one down since like I said they are rather bulky and difficult for one person to manage.

But I guess he wanted me to know that he really did in fact have heart surgery, cause he starts to unbutton his shirt and show me his nasty ass scar. Like when is it ever appropriate for a guy to unbutton his shirt in a store and flash his chest and scar at anyone?

I'm just standing there speechless when my supervisor walks up at that exact minute. I give her this "I have no idea what the hell to do or explain this" look, and thankfully the crusty is starts to button up his shirt and starts to tell my supervisor that he needs help getting the kayak cause he just had heart surgery. They walk off and my fellow cashier and I are like "WTF?"

It's not that I'm bothered by skin or men's chest, but it just was such a strange thing for anyone to do. I guess it could have been worse, he could have just had surgery for hemorrhoids, lol.

--Perky

 

 

Comments

[Skittles]

To be perfectly honest I would love to work somewhere where people would randomly whip off their shirts for no logical reason. Regardless of age or the highly subjective level of attractiveness. I imagine the guy in this case subscribes to the whole men must always be super tough and 'manly' with no excuses thing. Probably one of those dudes who feel the need to crush your hand when they shake hands too.

[Wmdkitty]

Nothing wrong with showing off an impressive scar.

[JAH]

Nothing wrong with it unless it's ... not an attractive scar... you know, fresh, red, pink, or poorly dressed on a fat, hairy stomach (the guy showing it off was kind of rank from working in the yard on a 90 degree day and thought we'd show him some pity... I'd have started with asking him to stay at home and recoup and not flash us).

[Slagathor]

I get this in the ER, people insist on showing me their cuts, scars, broken bones. It is a more appropriate place, but they're showing the wrong person. Just wait for the nurse, I'm just here to register you.

[perky]

@Jah, it was a pretty fresh looking scar. It was pretty freaky looking. He was average looking, not health nut fit, nor was he fat and puddy. It wasn't his body type that was unpleasant, it was the scar.

[Rain]

When I worked in a pharmacy as a teenager I once had a female customer pull her shirt down to show me her boobs and some freaky growth on them. She wanted to know if she should go to the doctor. I think I said yes, but I was too traumatized to remember!

[Humor_Me]

Rain: I wonder if it was the same woman that flopped her boob on the lay-away counter back in the 80's when I worked at the K? Thank heavens I only heard about it. The girl that was working the counter told me about it because the department I was in was right by there. Seriously, who wants to see your boobs flopped on the counter? I didn't wears shorts for the longest time because of the scars on my knee, but it's just too hot here in AZ. I'm also old enough to figure out that people are gunna get over it. Also, throwing my leg on a counter is going to be rather difficult for me : - P

[Skittles]

@JAH those sound like the best scars to show off. Like when my co-worker came in one day and showed me how he had been kind of stabbed. Gruesome but awesome.

[StationarySecurity]

When my father had his bypass surgery over fifteen years ago, he continues to this day to open up his shirt and show off his scar to people. It's not a unique thing, but I can only assume that bad eating habits and poor healthcare makes for a good war story when you show off your 'battle scar'

[Jami]

And I thought it was bad when a woman stood at the desk talking to my supervisor about her "pregnant at 35" daughter's anal fissures.

(Yes, this woman makes a big deal out of the fact her daughter is "finally" having her first baby at 35.)

At least she didn't show pictures of them.

[Nocturnesthesia]

Hahaha gross. Not that I find anything shameful about scars (always feel like high fiving people with the courage to wear shorts or t-shirts even with extensive burn scars) but removing clothing to show off a freshly sutured hole is pretty rank.

Though he might have been embarrassed to ask for help and showed it off to justify it, figuring he didn't look sick/injured. Not that an employee would really care either way, but people are weird that way.

[DrillBoysGirl]

My dad used to do the same thing shortly after he got out of the hospital for open heart surgery to replace a valve in his heart... creepy as hell, too. *shudder*