Florida Store Tells Customers: Don't Warm Urine in My Microwave

This is not the kind of sign you want to see when you go to heat up your gas station burrito.

Parul Patel, the owner of On the Fly Convenience Store and BP gas station was getting sick and tired of cleaning out his microwave every time a customer came in to reheat their urine while on the way to a nearby lab that collects samples for drug tests. 

"We got sick and tired of people bringing their urine containers,” Patel told First Coast News. “They're just random people walking and it's happening every day.”

The people who do it aren't customers, Patel says. People who use his microwave to warm urine just "walk in off the street, microwave their urine containers then leave." 

The gas station is a popular location for people to re-heating their urine because it's located only a few doors down from two companies that collect urine samples and offer drug testing services.

Patel says that people are desperate to pass their tests and they can become combative when he asks them to leave. The gas station owner finally put up the after one woman starting cussing him out. 

"She said, ‘well where is the sign that says you can't use this for this kind of purpose.' That gave me the idea, ‘If that's what you're asking me, then I'll put the sign saying this is only for food use and not to use with your urine or anything else," Patel said. 

"We try to stop these kind of people," Patel says. "They become so aggressive with us."

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