Wet floor signs!

[maxwest555]

i have a great worry when ever i see a wet floor sign, different scenarios rush through my head, and of course being an emet i always assume the worst does annyone else have this problem?

[olschesky]

i own a cleaning business and put up wet floor signs all the time......never had to put one up for v.....so try and relax

[Andrilla]

I usually only see them when it is raining or snowing so the floors are wet from people tracking in water from outside. sometimes the ceiling leaks, they would put the signs out then. They also use them when they have to clean up any spills from merchandise (broken pickle jars and such), or spills from people carrying drinks and when people pee in the store. I KNOW that the last one sounds insane, but my supervisor where I used to work said that they had a lot of problems with people peeing in the back of the store before they decided to let people use the bathroom, and not just from kids who couldn't hold it. (???)

So, really, there are many more likely reasons for a wet floor sign.

[alisha27]

LOL yes I do! I always assume the worst because back in elementary school the janitor would put those signs down in the hallways or the bathroom way...and I was like "uh oh". Usually a kid didn't make it. You always knew when someone got sick too because they used this stuff to clean it up that looked like cat litter and had a scent that wouldn't go away for hours. I see those signs in the grocery store mainly and yes the thought crosses my mind. I'm sure they probably had to clean up a spill of something off the shelves but yeah it brings back old bad memories.

[KentuckyLivin']

I worked at a retail store for years and we used those signs all the time. Only twice that I know of/can remember did we use it for v* occurences and neither of those were for illnesses. One was when an elderly woman's blood sugar dropped and she passed out. Beforehand she got severely nauseated apparently and just missed the trashcan by one of the registers a little. It wasn't much and luckily the woman running that register was actually a retired nurse (how lucky was that!). Another time was when a child got overheated waiting to have portraits taken and in that case the parents cleaned it up and our staff just disinfected the floor out of safety measures. And this was over a period of the 4.5 years I worked there. That's all I can remember. We did have a baby spit up in front of our register once... but that was no biggie... lol.

Most often, as pointed out above, it was for spills (drinks and food bought in the food court and brought into the store) or because of the weather. Most of the time when the signs were outside our bathroom doors it was because of routine mopping (you'd be surprised the wet footprints coming in and out of bathrooms... lol) or because a child made a mess of the drinking fountains.

We did have occasional other bodily fluids (pee and blood among others :X) -- people do some GROSS and uncalled for things in fitting rooms.... I'll tell ya that! But again, those were pretty few and far between.

[coolpk2003]

OMG yes... the other day I went to see a movie and I went to go in an aisle and saw a wet floor sign and I freaked out and refused to sit anywhere near that sign. I said why else would they put a wet floor sign in the middle of an aisle? My husband kept saying someone probably spilled their pop and it's wet where they washed it up, etc... and I was like you don't know that and I refuse to chance it. I freaked out and didn't even want to stay in that theater but he made me. Another time we were on a museum trip with my youth group and we were split into 2 groups during the tour and a girl in the other group v* all over the floor and they had just put the clean up stuff on it right before my group walked by but I had to close my eyes and hold my breath and make my husband walk me past it because I couldn't stand the idea of it

[Rebecca85]

I came out of the supermarket the other day, and they have like a porch on the front so you have to walk through two sets of doors to get out, anyway I saw two employees with brushes and cleaning stuff bending over by one of the doors... my heart just sank. But they were only shaking the doormat things to get all the dust out! Why do we always think it's something else?

[yoon]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has that exact thought running through their head when they see a wet floor sign! I'll do almost anything to avoid one, expecting it to be /that/.