Warning: This post is thoroughly disgusting.

So tonight, L and I ran to KROGER to pick up a few things for dinner.  L said she had to pee, so I took her to the bathroom, which is right beside the pharmacy.   I stopped to get a drink at the drinking fountain and sent L on ahead to go pee.

A minute later, when I walked into the bathroom, I could tell right away something was terribly wrong.  There was an overwhelming stench of poop that was pretty much unbearable.  I assumed someone didn’t flush.  Yuck.

I walked to the big stall to see if that was where L was.  When I looked inside, it was bad. It took a minute for my brain to register what I was seeing.  There was poop rubbed all over the seat and the outside of the toilet bowl.  LOTS of poop.

Then I realized the mud that was tracked all over the floor of the bathroom was NOT MUD.  It was poop.  Smeared everywhere on the floor.  I started to freak out and discovered L finishing peeing in the middle stall which did not seem to be covered with poop on the actual bowl, but had poop all over the floor.  The final stall also had poop rubbed all over the outside of the toilet.

I grabbed L and carried her to the sink to wash her and douse her in hand sanitizer.  Then I went out to tell the pharmacy people what I found.

Imagine my surprise when they told me they already knew.  Four people knew about this horror (they even told me the woman who did it has very bad Alzheimers) and not ONE OF THEM could be bothered to, I dont’ know, PUT A SIGN ON THE DOOR or maybe stop me from taking my small CHILD into a SHIT COVERED NIGHTMARE!!!!

WHAT THE EFFF????

Since they were clearly not giving a shit (!), I made them call the manager who didn’t know anything about it, even though the pharmacy said they already called him.  I made him go in and look and he came and apologized and headed back to the front of the store.  Again, WITHOUT PUTTING UP A SIGN or anything to stop people from going in.

I walked away stunned. I wandered around the freezer section and then back to the front of the store.  When I got there, the manager was standing there with maybe 10 employees JOKING about the poop.  He had handed a teenage boy a roll of paper towels WITH NO GLOVES and told him to go clean it up.

It then occurred to me that I had probably tracked poop on my shoes all around the store while they were all still sitting there joking about the poop being spread all around the STORE WHERE I BUY FOOD.    Not even caring that my SMALL CHILD was contaminated in unspeakable ways  IN THEIR FOOD STORE.

I mentioned to the woman working at the desk that I probably tracked POOP all around the freezer section and was she going to decontaminated that somehow?   She said, “Oh, we clean the store ever day.”

WHAT THE HELL.

Worthington Ohio Kroger, you are now christened the POOP KROGER.

And Manager man whose name began with J??  You should be ashamed of the way you handled that situation.  Seriously. PEOPLE BUY FOOD THERE.   POOP SMEARING is not a laughing matter!