Closing shift again, and one of my coworkers said something like “are your feet okay, they look swollen” right in front of a couple customers.
I mean I know they are. I’ve known for weeks. It’s just weird hearing someone else say it out loud like that, like it’s visible enough for a stranger to clock it too, not just something I feel when I get home and sit down.
I didn’t really know what to say so I just brushed it off and said something about retail feet, you know how it is. But I’ve been standing for over 8 hours a day for years now and it never used to swell like this, not until the last few months.
Been trying to build some kind of routine around it but tonight I just didn’t have it in me, sat on the edge of my bed staring at my ankles instead. Maybe tomorrow.
Sorry this got long, just needed to get it out somewhere…