Why Aisle 3?

[Suerreal]

In three separte places today I've read/heard "Cleanup in Aisle 3"

Why Aisle 3?

- Sue

[Surgoshan]

It's kinda like the bathroom. Nobody takes the first stall because it's closest to the door. And nobody takes the second stall because it's weird that the first stall is always empty.

The aisles are kinda like that, only with less bathroomness and more 3 year olds having accidents.

[Ursa Major]

Business is a little slow today so here they are by Google rank:

"Cleanup in Aisle 5" -1940
"Cleanup in Aisle 4" -1210
"Cleanup in Aisle 3" - 465
"Cleanup in Aisle 7" -416
"Cleanup in Aisle 2" -164
"Cleanup in Aisle 12" -121
"Cleanup in Aisle 6" -101
"Cleanup in Aisle 9" -100
"Cleanup in Aisle 1" -101
"Cleanup in Aisle 10" -73
"Cleanup in Aisle 11" -49
"Cleanup in Aisle 15" -43
"Cleanup in Aisle 16" -42
"Cleanup in Aisle 8" -25

[Suerreal]

Wow! Thanks for the excellent research, Ursa. :)

I hadn't previously noticed a pattern, so today's clustering must have just been a fluke.

- Sue

[PlanMan]

Originally posted by Suerreal
Wow! Thanks for the excellent research, Ursa. :)

I hadn't previously noticed a pattern, so today's clustering must have just been a fluke.

- Sue

Well, it's a good thing they cleaned it up ... you can't just leave flukes lying around in the aisle!

[Ursa Major]

The much neglected "Cleanup in Aisle 8" sounds like Rosie the Robot gone berserk: "Cleanup! Annihilate!"

[MrKnowItAll]

Great. Now I'm picturing Rosie with a Dalek sucker-arm.

[hawthorne]

Ursa's research impressed me sufficently to do the same with words. In the same order:

"Cleanup in Aisle five" 957
"Cleanup in Aisle four" 551
"Cleanup in Aisle three" 371
"Cleanup in Aisle seven" 127
"Cleanup in Aisle two" 91
"Cleanup in Aisle twelve" 54
"Cleanup in Aisle six" 323
"Cleanup in Aisle nine"76
"Cleanup in Aisle one" 36
"Cleanup in Aisle ten" 32
"Cleanup in Aisle eleven" 0
"Cleanup in Aisle fifteen" 0
"Cleanup in Aisle sixteen" 0
"Cleanup in Aisle eight" 3

Something is going on in aisle eight. Perhaps it is undirtiable.

[phouka]

Duh! That's cause that's where the cleaning supplies are kept.

[Thomas Lawrence]

I always liked the K-Mart approach:

• Code M on Aisle 5 (M for mess, or mop)
• Code P on Aisle 7 (P for poop or pee)
• Code D on Aisle 17 (D for deranged person)

You get the idea. ;)

[Sister Coyote]

Disney uses "code V" on occasion.

[Ursa Major]

Originally posted by Sister Coyote
Disney uses "code V" on occasion.

Who's the lucky "cast member" with the bucket of sawdust?

[MrKnowItAll]

Sounds like a job for Eeyore.

[Sister Coyote]

Custodial gets to handle it, though all locations have a drawer, somewhere, filled with "pixie dust" to cover the problem when necessary.

[phouka]

My mom works at Disney as an RN, and boy, does she have stories to tell.

A couple/three years ago, when there was a fatal accident (either at Disneyland or -world), and one of the sailing ship's tiedown cleats was pulled loose and clobbered some poor bystander in the head, there was initially talk that Disney had tried to cover up the accident by cleaning up before the police and investigators could figure out what happened.

Actually, it was that the park custodial staff is so used to cleaning up messes as soon as it happened, they swarmed over and cleaned up the blood (and, ulp, brains) that had been spattered on the ground, because one just does not leave a mess at Disney.

Mom tells me the staff had to get extra training and some counseling to cope with any events like that.

[Sister Coyote]

That was Disneyland, and it was the Pirate Ship Colombia, which I don't believe sails anymore around the Rivers of America for guests.

How long has your mom been an RN at the park? (Curious, because I wonder if she and I ever met. ;))

[Rowan]

It's my understanding that such things aren't to be taken literally. "Clean-up in aisle 3" might mean that a mop is needed in aisle three, but it might also be a code for an irate customer at check-out requiring the manager's intervention. Understandably, the store does not want to brodcast such a thing over the loudspeaker.

When I was a candy-striper in a public hospital, "code red" meant a fire, "code blue" meant the crash cart was needed somewhere-- sometimes the candy-striper was the closest person to the crash cart, depending on how busy a day it was-- and "code white" meant the biggest orderly on duty was needed to remove a visitor or other non-patient, non-staff person who was causing trouble.

I'm sure military hospitals use a similar system, don't they?

[Surgoshan]

Originally posted by Sister Coyote
Disney uses "code V" on occasion.

And from what I've heard about the staff members, I'm sure they also occasionally need a "code J".

[Dances With Woofs]

Originally posted by Rowan
-- and "code white" meant the biggest orderly on duty was needed to remove a visitor or other non-patient, non-staff person who was causing trouble.

Yeah, that sounds much more sophisticated in a hospital than hollering, "HEY, RUBE!"

+Ron
:)

[Luvsadawg]

Continuing the slight hijack:

One of the receptionists at the Vets office I worked at used to put a small circle with a dot in it on the patient records of those who were, in her opinion, a pain in the ass.

[phouka]

My mom's been there for going on three years now. First, she worked visitor health - the first aid office for park goers. Many interesting stories from that. Now she's on cast health - making sure Tinkerbell gets her shots and such.

She got there after working at a nursing school that was actually the fifth level of Hell disguised. Disney has made her happy again. It's wonderful to see.

[Sister Coyote]

Hm. Wouldn't have met each other, then, I've been gone a lot longer than three years. :)