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WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
JimC:
--- Quote from: brasca on 09 Aug 2018, 18:42 ---Strange that Jim wouldn’t have a stronger gag reflex working around food. Mold and vermin go with the territory.
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Well I worked in the food trade for several years in my youth, and don't ever remember seeing mould or vermin.
themacnut:
I've only worked briefly in the food industry, but I would think that if your seeing/smelling mold and vermin, either you or your employer are doing something wrong.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: brasca on 09 Aug 2018, 18:42 ---Strange that Jim wouldn’t have a stronger gag reflex working around food. Mold and vermin go with the territory.
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A lot of people can handle one disgusting thing, but show them something else and their stomach will do loops.
My first job was as a stockboy in a supermarket. Where we worked had a compactor that was removed and emptied four times a year. Which meant that someone had to go down and clean out the area of anything that fell through the gaps. Which meant the stockboys. We'd have to go do and clear out the likes of fruit that was so decomposed it left a slight ether like scent. Or it could have been meat. And the smell of rancid meat lingers, it hangs in the air. The smell sticks to your tongue and for a few days afterwards, no matter how much you wash your mouth out, everything has the tinge of rancid meat. And then there was the summer.
Over the years, I've had to clean up blood, urine, vomit and excrement. Its not a problem for me. I don't like it, but I'll do it. Thanks to that first job, I even catch a hint of a smell that meat has gone off, I'm about ready to retch.
Long story short, people react differently to different things.
War Sparrow:
Oh boy, does it ever. I accidentally unplugged my meat filled deep freeze while sweeping and didn't notice.
Then I left for a week, during a heatwave.
I had missed garbage day, which is on alternating weeks here to encourage recycling.
It was a rough two weeks, once I got back. Like an oil slick in the back of my throat, and my husband had taken his gas mask on tour. I consider the cleaning out of, and the bleaching of the freezer without vomiting to be a crowning achievement.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: BlueFatima on 09 Aug 2018, 18:57 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 09 Aug 2018, 18:42 ---Strange that Jim wouldn’t have a stronger gag reflex working around food. Mold and vermin go with the territory.
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Or just being a parent—especially of a child like Sam who is bound to have had many childhood injuries.
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It's like I said earlier - it's different when it's your kid.
I'm sure Jim was strong for Sam when he needed to be - probably has bandaged many a grossity, or gotten her to the emergency room, all the while holding back his urge to toss his cookies, until that one noodle incident...
I have to say that, as a dad, the best line in this whole sequence of events is the last one in today's strip. It sums up the father-tomboy relationship so well!
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