Buying Plan B, condoms, gum, Vagisil, Summers Eve, a Yo-Yo, Vaseline and the sexy issue of Cosmopolitan magazine will get you a lot of odd looks.
But c'mon, those things make sense to purchase together.
Clearly this girl had a wild night and is planning on many more, but this time she's prepared!
Buying super personal items when strangers are ringing you up is, well, strange. However, when someone you know is ringing you up the awkward level is through the roof.I'll give you examples of both.
I once stopped by a small pharmacy with my boyfriend. We had ran out of some basic necessities. I was 21-years-old at the time, but I'm told I have a young face. My boyfriend was 6'4" and had a lot of facial hair. Even though he didn't look old, he looked older than me. There as a little old lady behind the pharmacy counter, and when we put our items on the counter she asked me for my ID.
This would be normal if we were buying some smokes. But, we were just picking up some Doritos, Tylenol, nail polish remover and oh yeah, condoms.
She told me that it was the store policy to card girls under 18 that were buying condoms. I realized just how wrong this is a little later. If young girls are having sex, they should have access to condoms. But, that's another blog post.It was so awkward having this woman stand there and analyze every aspect of my ID. I felt like I was at the airport. She flipped it over, held a flashlight to it and even asked me if I lost weight since the picture was taken. Then she asked for my boyfriend's ID. It was the longest condom run in history.
Another odd moment was when I decided to try to buy some feminine products and an old teacher of mine was ringing me out. I wondered what happened to his teaching gig?!
"Hahahhahahaha" It is true. I hate the judgmental eyes or even worse, the awkward silence as the selected items run down the belt to get checked out. To feel shameful in buying condoms...probably the same feeling boys get when they go and buy pads lol. Maybe she was checking to see if you weren't like an underager with an elderly man and going to go out and make the bed rock. But hey who knows. This explains why MTV and the teens on 16&pregnant + teen mom become celebrities.
ReplyDeleteYeah, she was not having it. He was 24, but he did have like a bunch of facial hair. I thought it was crazy to be carded for that. It does explain those shows! It was the longest moment of my life though!
DeleteI feel like that's totally illegal! I'd be asking for a manager.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure she just didn't want to sell me them because she was just iffy about selling a girl condoms. I doubt it was the store policy. I didn't really get ticked off until I was out of the store. I doubt that anyone else was in the store. It was such a small shop.
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