always the sickly one
Laur and I got to work at the new Claire's store in Edgewater today. The store is opening on friday, so we (the staff) are spending the next few days sorting shipment and setting up the store. Sorting shipment wasn't that bad, but I don't understand the logic of the Claire's Company. Why send bunches of random stuff in boxes? Why not fill a box with a few (10 or less) types of items, thus making it easier to sort, instead of just picking up 50 different items and throwing them in a box? argh, but moving on. Haha, throwing stuff half-way across the room was actually sorta fun. Anyway, we started working around 9:30 and we took our lunch break at 1. Around 11:45/12 o'clock-ish I and a few other girls start complaining that they have a headache. I figure its from all of the rapid standing-up/stooping-over that we were doing. A few of us leave the store around 1 for lunch, and after a minute or so outside, my headache goes away. We wait around trying to find Athena, but after a while we just decide to go back into the store and wait for her. When I get back into the store, I notice that it really smells like gas or something... I sort of noticed it before, but I guess I was sorta acclimated to it so I didn't notice it as much until I went outside and then came back in. Once I get back into the store I get really dizzy and lightheaded, so I go back outside and half sit/squat against the door. After a little while, I feel fine, and after a little fussing, eveyone decides that we just need to go eat so I get up to walk to lunch with Laur. As soon as I get up, I get really dizzy again, and catching up with Laur, I put my hand on her shoulder and mumble something to the extent of "I feel really dizzy." Hehe, next thing that I can remember well, I'm lying on the ground with my head being propped up being asked by Athena, "Tara, can you hear me?" So to make a long story longer, it turns out that I got Carbon Monoxide poisoning from while I was working... There was a generator in the back of our area of the strip-mall, and it flooded the area with Carbon Monoxide and whatnot. The empty lot next to us registered at 75% CO or somethign like that, which is pretty high. I think they said that anythign over 30% is really bad. summing up, got put on oxygen for a little while, or actually a long while, and now I'm fine. :) good story, huh?