have you ever started a shop and a emergency happened?
like say a customer[or clerk] was have heart attack ?

Yes, about my third shop, I was in a very large shopping mall, doing a small electronics store shop, when all of the fire alarms went off and the lights went out. I left the target site and evacuated to a nearby "bridge" to the parking structure. Forty minutes later the "all clear" sounded and I returned to complete the shop.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2014 01:32PM by walesmaven.

Yep, this past week at a convenience store. Two police cars and a rescue in the parking lot.

We were on our way to a dinner shop. A hail storm occurred en route. Did a real number on my car, before we could turn tail to home and seek cover. The MSC was wonderful. Totally sympathetic, and glad that we were okay.

Was doing a grocery shop and was at seafood when a woman did a slip and fall behind me. Manager was called, 911 was called etc. etc. I sort of suspect the fall was a scam for insurance as there was nothing slick on the floor and the EMT responder called her by name without asking it . . .

Was doing a restaurant shop when an elderly lady tripped on her cane and fell. Manager did a wonderful job of talking with the lady quietly as the lady got her bearings, did not want EMT called because she was sure she was okay and before she was ready to get up, she and the Manager were laughing and talking about other things.

Showed up at a gas station to find a half dozen police cars with lights blinking and crime scene tape across all entrances. Found out on the evening news it was a police bust for counterfeit goods, drugs and guns.

First time for me was Wednesday. Showed up for a video lunch shop to a police car, ambulance and fire truck in the parking lot directly in front of the restaurant. I couldn't tell it had all been for a car accident in the lot and just waited it out.

A few weeks ago, i was just finishing the last photos for a gas station audit, when an ambulance came zooming in, and parked behind my car, blocking me in. They had come for a young man who seemed to be having a complete, but non-violent, break with reality. Makes you count your blessings.

I seem to remember there was a post about a shopper who was at the bank just after it had been robbed, or something like that. I just remember thinking I was glad I didn't usually do bank shops.

Some of Cettie's adventures sure sounded like emergencies!

I've never had a life-threatening emergency on a shop "but" I was in the drive-thru FF shop, in a very long line at lunch time, where massive construction was going on, of the roof, when (as I am timing....) a big truck with a front loader sits "in" the drive-thru lane! Blocking traffic because he is loading something. He took about 5 minutes, (!) so it threw my time off quite a bit! (because it took so long, I actually took a picture of the roof, in case I needed to prove my story)

For me that felt like an "emergency" when I kept yelling inside my car, "Are you kidding me??? Move that Truck!!"

I was doing a FF drive-thru when Doug Heffernan's IPS truck got lodged under the canopy.

Did a video car rental at Miami airport. Got lost trying to get back into the airport and it took longer to get the shop finished. When I finally got back to my vehicle and headed out of the airport, I realized I was almost out of gas. I started looking for the closest gas station when a dozen police cars came flying out of the airport and started shutting down cross streets. Just in front of me was the gas station I desperately needed to get to, and as I was getting close, a police car flew around me and blocked the entrance, as two other police cars pulled in from the other side. I passed that gas station and took the first turn off that road looking to get away from all of the now closed down streets.

I got out of the area and made it to a gas station. I checked the news reports and learned that a homeless man had shot a policeman and a customer at the gas station I would have stopped at.

In between shops at a mall and had to render first aid to an elderly man who collapsed.

Well I was doing this Shell shop when I had to deliver a baby in the lube bay, and.........



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mrpanitz Wrote:
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> have you ever started a shop and a emergency
> happened?
> like say a customer was have heart attack ?


Yes, it happened to me last month.

Never got shopped during an emergency, but I certainly had a few.

I was doing a fast blue bank when the lights went out. I still needed the business card so I continued via the emergency lights. I was talking to the guy like nothing was wrong, even though neither of us could really see anything, until the manager told everyone to leave because the bank was on fire (sparks from a transformer fire). Fire trucks arrived shortly after I pulled out of the lot...but I got my business card. LOL

MsJudi Wrote:
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...but I got my business card. LOL

We do have our priorities after all. LOL

I have had to cancel a shop because of an emergency with Ritter. I called the scheduler and explained what happened and they were very polite about the cancellation. A week later I got the shop back with a bonus because it was overdue.

Yes, a personal emergency.

I was doing gas station mystery shop/reveals on a particularly hot and humid day. One of the first gas stations had those little rolling hot dog and mexican rolled up tacaritos heating up. Since it was almost lunch, I chose the mexican tacarito as my food choice and as my in store purchase. Kill two birds with one stone, right?

I ate the thing and continued on my route, doing several more gas stations.

At the very last station, I pulled up to a rundown, un-air conditioned, unkempt place in the poorer part of the city. As I stood in the short line to make my in-store purchase, I realized that I was becoming extremely nauseous.

Even though I had asked the attendant if he had a restroom and he said there were not public restrooms, I urgently asked him again.

He was an hispanic man who seemed not to understand much English or my accent. However, I got it across to him that I must use some type of restroom nearby. Immediamento!!

He reluctantly opened the backroom where I found a dirty sink and a very filthy toilet lit by a very dim ceiling light and a high window. There was no lock on the inside door for privacy.

No matter!

Needless to say, I made a mess of the thing and when I was finally finished, I found there was not toilet tissue other than what I had in my purse. I crumbled up the LOA to use and also my panties. I tried to rinse them out in the sink, but found there was little if any water coming out. That made sense, I thought, because the toilet would not fill back up with water either.

Leaving the stinking, bloody mess, I hurriedly left the station, thanking the little man as I rushed out, sans underwear, got into my car and left for home, stopping two more times at a drug store and another gas station for additional; relief.

Needless to say, I didn't finish that shop, got it cancelled for being ill and have never done that particular station again.

I get ill even thinking of the experience.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2014 01:05PM by Tatjana.

I'm a bit ill now, too.

Tatjana Wrote:
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> Yes, a personal emergency.
>
> I was doing gas station mystery shop/reveals on a
> particularly hot and humid day. One of the first
> gas stations had those little rolling hot dog and
> mexican rolled up tacaritos heating up. Since it
> was almost lunch, I chose the mexican tacarito as
> my food choice and as my in store purchase. Kill
> two birds with one stone, right?
>
> I ate the thing and continued on my route, doing
> several more gas stations.
>
> At the very last station, I pulled up to a
> rundown, un-air conditioned, unkempt place in the
> poorer part of the city. As I stood in the short
> line to make my in-store purchase, I realized that
> I was becoming extremely nauseous.
>
> Even though I had asked the attendant if he had a
> restroom and he said there were not public
> restrooms, I urgently asked him again.
>
> He was an hispanic man who seemed not to
> understand much English or my accent. However, I
> got it across to him that I must use some type of
> restroom nearby. Immediamento!!
>
> He reluctantly opened the backroom where I found a
> dirty sink and a very filthy toilet lit by a very
> dim ceiling light and a high window. There was no
> lock on the inside door for privacy.
>
> No matter!
>
> Needless to say, I made a mess of the thing and
> when I was finally finished, I found there was not
> toilet tissue other than what I had in my purse. I
> crumbled up the LOA to use and also my panties. I
> tried to rinse them out in the sink, but found
> there was little if any water coming out. That
> made sense, I thought, because the toilet would
> not fill back up with water either.
>
> Leaving the stinking, bloody mess, I hurriedly
> left the station, thanking the little man as I
> rushed out, sans underwear, got into my car and
> left for home, stopping two more times at a drug
> store and another gas station for additional;
> relief.
>
> Needless to say, I didn't finish that shop, got it
> cancelled for being ill and have never done that
> particular station again.
>
> I get ill even thinking of the experience.


Great Story!! LOL! Next time, when you need to go quick just say "Bano~Pronto!" Or "Donde Esta El Bano, Por Favor!!"

@Sunny Days 2 "Great Story!! LOL! Next time, when you need to go quick just say "Bano~Pronto!" Or "Donde Esta El Bano, Por Favor!!" "

Thanks!

At the time, it was a terrible experience. When i told my hubby what happened, he said "sounds like you're all pooped out!" Then he laughed his bum off.

I almost beaned him!

The only one that comes to mind was when I was doing a lovely green gas station audit/shop and found a man laying dead in the shrubbery on the side of the property. I ran fast to the station manager who told me he already knew and that corporate said not to get involved. Like hell. I scurried off the property and made a phone call to report it immediately. The manager was mad as a wet hen that it got called in and chewed me a new one for tarnishing his station by reporting it. I unleashed the wrath of my people on his sorry ass and never shopped that location again.

I am NOT going to leave someone in distress, whether living or deceased, just laying there like they didn't matter.

The closest was a domestic dispute in McDonald's. A couple started screaming obscenities at each other and throwing all the food and their trays. I didn't see any blows.

I had sat there long enough so quietly asked the manager if I could do anything. She said they are not allowed to intervene.

She was standing there, kind of blocking the area so others would stay away. People near the exits quietly slipped out. Two police cars were pulling up when I left.

Luckily I had done the Drive Through first so I could just leave. I mentioned it in the report at the end.