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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/wakeangel2001 on 2023-10-06 00:42:57.

Okay, here’s a story from right after the lockdown ended. The clothing store I worked at was running with limited capacity and a small group of friends had come in to get an item customized in our tailor shop. By coincidence the tailor was in the bathroom so I had to make sure they’d be engaged for a couple minutes, so I told them to check out our sample embroidery and our selection of buttons and patches, normal stuff. THEN I remembered people were really self conscious about touching public surfaces at this time so I pointed out the large bottle of hand sanitizer we kept on the counter, this was a HUGE gallon bottle with a pump on top, and I warned them to only push the nozzle down about 1/4 of the way to get an adequate amount for your hands (I even demonstrated it.) Well the first person did as I said and got a small amount to sanitize themself, but the friend behind them proceeded to push the nozzle most of the way down and GLOPPED a huge blob of sanitizing gel in her hand, filling her entire palm. As she yelped in surprise the first friend asked why she didn’t heed my instruction, to which she sheepishly replied “I wasn’t paying attention…” It was a good chuckle for all of us as she used the giant blob to clean herself all the way up past her elbows.

If anyone is curious why a sanitizer bottle would dispense so much I think it might have been a modified body wash dispenser, like the kind used in communal showers, based on the shape and size.