Guys buying tampons or pads

[Lace Neil Singer]

I buy my own womanly products, cuz I'd never trust my boyf to buy the right ones. I just tell him to get the chocolate. XD

[Rubystars]

I can understand why you feel that way, but when I was recovering from my C-section in the hospital, I rather needed my husband to get them for me (the ones the hospital carries are horrible). Likewise, if a woman is sick, she's not going to want to go to the store.

Like any rule, there are usually good exceptions to it. Point taken.

[Tigress]

My brother used my pads when he developed a cyst on his butt. Mom had gone through menopause and I only need a few a month (develop amenhorrea on a regular basis and the only reason I have a period some months is because my BC pills force me to), so it was no biggie. He was pretty mortified to use them to soak up the blood, puss and other nastiness that leaked out as his cyst healed. But it was either that or adult diapers.

[Tanasi]

Tampons are also have shooting and hunting applications. They're great for cleaning muzzleloading rifles and the smaller guage shotguns. If you don't want to put the various doe/fox/whatever critter smell on you putting it on tampons and tieing them to a string to drag behind you is handy.
I can honestly say that I've never been asked to buy supplies before, I guess it never came up.
One time at the gun range we had some ear plugs with french labeling. So instead of saying ear plugs they said whatever the french word for ears is and tampons. It took a long time for those ear plugs to be used.

[Emrld]

I was part of the sports med team in high school. Coach would by tampoons . . .and a few of us girls would cut them into quarters . . .we kept the string on one or two. Basically they were cheaper and worked better for nose bleeds than the cotton tube.

A few years latter I had a best guy friend that on occassion I would crash at his apartment. It was a platonic brother sister kinda thing. Anyway because I was over there so much I just placed a make up bag with feminine hygine product under the sink. I didn't ask . . .I just did it. All was ok until his roomates girlfriend found it and got all upset over it. It was rather stupid. They only had one bathroom and I really didn't want to make a big deal about having to take care of such things when necessary. She demanded that I keep the bag in my friends room as it was a bathroom belonging to boys. Apparently items like that were not to be kept where boys would have to see them. (ummm wouldn't keeping them in my friends room cause them to be where a male could see them?) She also felt that disposal should be imediate as in take the trash to the dupster right then. Needless to say that was the start of the roomate finding out that he was dating a psycho . . .my make up bag and I stayed around . . .she didn't. (And yes, I did my part to make up for being there all the time . . .I bought food, cooked, and cleaned)

[bean]

I always envision the extremely loud price check

I actually embarrassed my mom in an opposite fashion once.

She took me to Kohl's to get some new clothes for my birthday. I grabbed some tie die Greatful Dead boxers in addition to a few t-shirts and jeans. When we got to the cashier, it was found that there was no price tag or bar code attached to the boxers. However, luck has it that someone walking by would be able to find out.

Cashier: HEY JOHN, HOW MUCH ARE THESE? *waving boxers in the air in front of a line 6 or 7 deep*
John: I'll find out
Cashier: THEY'RE THE GREATFUL DEAD TIE DIE ONES! *waves boxers some more*
John: Got it!

Never seen my mom turn so many shades of red. I laughed really, really hard for a long time, and the cashier then realized what she'd done and turned red herself (and apologized to me). I told her no apology needed, the look on mom's face made my week. Then again, I've bought pads, tampons, etc for friends, roommates, etc before, and thought nothing of it. It's when I'm buying stuff from "adult novelty" stores when I start getting a little embarrassed.

Having a cashier hold up your underwear in front of a huge line and embarrassing the hell out of your parents: priceless.

[Palsgraf]

So does the guy ever explain, "They're not for me."

Really?

[Kara]

Anyway because I was over there so much I just placed a make up bag with feminine hygine product under the sink. I didn't ask . . .I just did it.

I think this was the case at our house. Before we moved in, it was the college party house (neighbors have told us tales of the police pulling up and people scrambling out of doors and windows). We've since cleaned it up and made it pretty (it's a nice big house). It was being rented out to 3 college boys. But in downstairs bathroom was a cabinet full of pads and tampons (they left like half their stuff when they moved out).

[Trayol]

These stories remind me of the time of when I was 6 or 8 and shopping with my mom. We happened to be at Wal-mart doing the bi-monthly shopping when we entered "the Aisle". Being the inquizitive tike I was, I asked my mom what was the difference between pads and tampons

She so graciously told me, "Women stick tampons up inside themselves to soak up all the blood."
I replied "oh." Then went and tried to prevent I instantly wished for some and to

My expressions did however make my mom and the other women in the aisle laugh. I shall be haunted by that day for ever more.

[powerboy]

Whenever I have to buy those things, I do not get embarrassed about it. Why should I, they are not for me

[FuzzyKitten99]

This reminds me of when my husband and I were celebrating New Years' Eve with couple-friends one year (about 4 years ago) and we went out to get some liquor. At the same time though, they had told us they were trying to get pregnant and it had not happened, that they had been trying for a year, and nothing took. They wanted to surprise everyone when they would finally get a positive test, which is why they never told anyone they were trying. I asked her if she thought she might be, before she goes and splits a bottle of Arbor Mist with me. She said she didn't think so because they have been trying for so long without any positive results that she didn't want to be let down again. I told her that I would feel more comfortable about the whole drinking thing if we got a negative result firsthand that night, just to be sure. I told her that she could drink the pain away with me that night if it was negative.

So, we all drive over to Walgreens after paying at the liquor store, and her husband doesn't want to go in with her, but she doesn't want to go alone. He is weird about that kind of thing, plue he says it didn't do well for him to get his hopes up like every other time, just to be let down with a neg result. I am trapped in the backseat next to our son who was in his car seat (he'd be sleeping by the time we would start drinking, and we were planning to stay the night, just to let you know). So MY husband goes in with her, being the goofy guy with a great sense of humor and is very witty when he wants to be. So a few minutes pass and they come out, and they are rolling laughing... I mean full on, needing to catch their breath kind of laughing. We asked what was so funny. My husband told me that when the lady asked if they needed a bag, he told them no, they were going to use it in the parking lot, and the look on the lady's face went white and had this deer-in-headlights look.

Oh, and my friend was in fact pregnant, as we found out that night. My God-daughter Abigail Dawn was born the following September.

[aurelemsrealm]

You know, I've never had to go pick up feminine products for my wife or any other women before. I don't think I'd get embarrassed about it, though. I mean, I work at a convenience store, and have to deal with ringing them up for customers there frequently. It's just another package to scan to me. I will admit that I'm sadistic enough to be amused when customers do act embarrassed at bringing them up to the only male clerk working at our store. I do maintain my professional demeanor and keep my amusement to myself, though, because that the mature, respectful thing to do. I just simply ask them if they would like a bag to carry their purchase, and leave it alone. When I worked at K-Mart and other stores, I've had to stock merchandise which goes in the feminine products aisle. Plus, I grew up with a mother, a sister, aunts, and other women -- no one in my family is bashful about expressing their opinions on any given issue, so I heard plenty about female issues as I grew up. It's just one of those facts of life.

About the only thing I would insist on is that she writes down specifically what she wants because I can barely remember everything I want/need when I go to the store, and I make my own shopping lists that I lose or forget.

My mother reminds me of one of my many moments of saying the darndest things as a small child. We were at the grocery store one day. I was sitting in the cart as she pushed it. We pass through the feminine hygiene aisle, and I blurt out very loudly, "Maxi pads!!!!"

She said it embarrassed her even though she found herself laughing about my sudden outburst.

[hotelnpa]

These stories remind me of the time of when I was 6 or 8 and shopping with my mom. We happened to be at Wal-mart doing the bi-monthly shopping when we entered "the Aisle". Being the inquizitive tike I was, I asked my mom what was the difference between pads and tampons

She so graciously told me, "Women stick tampons up inside themselves to soak up all the blood."
I replied "oh." Then went and tried to prevent I instantly wished for some and to

My expressions did however make my mom and the other women in the aisle laugh. I shall be haunted by that day for ever more.

LOL..I remember when I was like 8 or 9 I started to notice the feminine hygiene aisle in stores. One day I was with my mom in Giant Eagle (a regional supermarket chain in PA, WV, and OH) and I asked what pads were right in the store. She turned silent. She said that my dad with explain it to me.

Well he did, but later on I learned in school that some of the information he gave me was incorrect, or I totally misunderstood him. He said that women get periods the 28th of every month. I thought that meant the 28th day, as in calender day. For a while, I thought all women got periods on the 28th day of every month. WRONG!

[Lady Heather]

Total embarresment

I can top you all for total embaressing thing for guys to buy, for a girl.

A Vibrator or a "how to" book on sex. The poor guy will slink up to the countr and say: "Justscanitandputitinthebag!"
I don't care. If it's for you, your girlfriend, or your boyfriend. If it's a "how to" book it means you actually care that your partner has a good time too. I had an older women tell a guy that at the register "Honey it means you care she's as happy as you are. Wish my man would."
And ladies the "it's for my friend" line, no one is buying it.

[draggar]

It's funny when you're buying condoms and the cashier says "Have a good day".

You bet!!!!