Weird combinations

[blas]

This isn't really...weird or anything, it's actually quite normal, but I was embarrassed to go to Wal-Mart and buy a toilet plunger. So I pushed my cart around Wal-Mart, picked one, then scurried off to the grocery department and filled my cart with Ramen Noodles Mac and Cheese and all sorts of frozen meals (even though it was a Monday and I'd already done my bi-weekly grocery shopping two days before)........and I went through self checkout.

Yes...almost 20 years old and too scared to buy a toilet plunger. I'm sure if I wasn't on the shot, I'd still be too scared to buy tampons. I don't think I could ever buy condoms, not even on a dare. I had some health problems recently, and I needed uh...feminine napkins for a week so you can only imagine the turmoil I went through at K-Mart that day.

[Seanette]

For some odd reason, I'm very reluctant to deal with a male cashier for "feminine needs". Yeah, I know, they see it all day, and presumably have at least basic awareness of female biology, but STILL......

[friendofjimmyk]

Wow. Just. wow. I was making a not-so-odd purchase the other day, but still a little embarassing and I was thinking, "Wow, what does the cashier think?" (Purchase - ex-lax)

I believe if you have a large enough purchase that most cashiers don't even notice.

I went to Doctor John's (the local sex toy and lingerie shop) and the place was packed. A lot more people walking around pointing and giggling than purchasing. Nothing really shocks me anymore...although there were a few items that made me go when I saw it, when I read the box and when I considered that there was actually a market for the thing in question! And a big "YOU PUT THIS WHERE?!?!?!?!?!?!"

As far as the dirty, old men who buy condoms and vasoline...maybe they clean up well!

And as far as the little old ladies buying thongs...my grandma has purchased nice lingerie for me before. So, Jester has a point.

And one more thing, the older people period who are still purchasing sex-type products gives me hope! I don't want to be a little old biddy that has lost interest in getting it on!

[Dreamstalker]

I am trying to figure out the shellfish thing, and the only possible scenario I can work out has me frantically hunting the brain bleach.

I think shellfish (only oysters specifically though) are supposed to be an aphrodisiac.

That's the "normal" explanation, anyway.

[chainedbarista]

He ran out of batteries one day, so he stopped at a local grocery and bought about 10 packs of them. And just happened to notice the KY was on sale. so he figured why not, it keeps. So he bought a bunch of it.

the ky acts as a conductor for the ultra sound waves, so the meter can get readings; it also protects the contact plate/points from friction damage.

[Lace Neil Singer]

For some odd reason, I'm very reluctant to deal with a male cashier for "feminine needs". Yeah, I know, they see it all day, and presumably have at least basic awareness of female biology, but STILL......

I personally don't mind this. Like, one day I was due "on" and realised I was down to my last "feminine product" so I went out to buy a couple of boxes. I dumped them on the counter in front of the male cashier, along with a huge bar of chocolate. It was to his credit that he didn't make any kind of sexist joke.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This one's pretty gross...the other day one of my friends at work told me she had a guy go through her checkout with a box of stool softener, an enema, and a Maxim magazine.

I don't want to know how far he got through the magazine.

[4Gifts4Lisa]

Okay, first off...I just had surgery Monday, and all this laughing is REALLY hurting my tummy!

Red wine and chicken...WTF is he thinking?!?!?! He is sure not gonna get lucky with THAT combination. I LOVE the motrin/ice cream/hammer purchase. That is priceless.

When my 13 yr old got her first period last year, I ran to the store to get her "gift"...the final purchase was something like this:

tampons
feminine napkins
pantiliners
midol
a HUGE chocolate bar
flowers
a card

I specifically went to a female cashier, who went on break and was replaced by an older dude right before my purchase. He kind of looked at me, and I just said, "it's my 12 year old's big day", and he just laughed...

[cheese]

Buying tampons or condoms isn't a big deal at all I don't think, seperately anyway.. Together is a bit dodgier - had a bloke through my checkout once buying tampons, condoms, lube, painkillers, and wine... I'm not too sure how to put this politely, but ever heard the phrase "If the river runs red, take the dirt track instead??"

[vloglady]

I used to work backstage at a theater company. One item we had to buy for every show was a box of condoms. I don't rememer what they were used for, but the technical director had to get them and use one per show for something mechanical.

Wish I could remember what they were used for. I'll try to find out.

[zzapp the witch]

Ahem, don't ask me how I know this, but some of those grannies buying thongs are supplementing a fixed income at the expense of panty sniffers.

[Azalea]

Ahem, don't ask me how I know this, but some of those grannies buying thongs are supplementing a fixed income at the expense of panty sniffers.

That's all I can say!

[Jester]

So, Jester has a point.

I've been known to make one or two.

Red wine and chicken...WTF is he thinking?!?!?! He is sure not gonna get lucky with THAT combination.

I disagree. Sure, red wine is not normally paired with chicken, but there are two things to remember. 1. A lot depends on which red wine and what chicken dish one is preparing. Depending on those, they may go quite well together. 2. The most important thing in wine is that you LIKE IT. I have had red wine with fish, and been quite content. Again, it depends on the particular dish and the particular wine, and of course the particular palate.

I'm not too sure how to put this politely, but ever heard the phrase "If the river runs red, take the dirt track instead??"

Some of us have earned our red wings, thank you very much.

And some of us prefer not to travel on the "dirt track." Personal opinion: Ick.

[friendofjimmyk]

Some of us have earned our red wings, thank you very much.

Umm, Jester, unless the meaning of "earning your red wings" has changed...

Umm. Uh. Yeah.

[Bliss]

Ummm these are not odd combinations, but three stories from my dad from his Photographer times (He's on digital video now), when he was young and all three very funny and related to shopping.

So, dad was once a photographer (latter went into cinema and now works with digital video), and has three wonderfull stories he has told me about odd purchases

1) At his small studio they had fancied themselves a rotating table for some shots. And the axle for the table was done with an older simple photo reel hub (the plastic part where the film strip is coiled), they were about to shoot a session when the old hub suddenly broke. So my dad had to run out to get a replacement asap to finish the shoot.

He runs into a photographers shop and asks for what he remembered to be the brand and type of the film to get the same hub, the guy shows him one and says "this one?"
"One second" responds my dad. He proceeds to open the box, opens the film can! pulls out all the film, extracts the hub and throws the film on the garbage, looks at the hub and tells the guy "Yeah this one!" pays for it and leaves. The expression on the seller's face was unforgetable.. lol (btw if the hub was wrong dad would've paid for the film anyhow so don't cringe )

2) Some background, my dad as a large beard, and he has carried his beard thorough all of his adult life, so. It's well known to photographers that many products are not "photogenic" that is, the actual product doesn't looks good on picture no matter how you light it, so many times "substitute" things are used to make the shoots (don't ever think these tasty looking hamburgers on Mc Donald's boards are actual hamburgers, they'd never look like that in film ), anyhow in this case they were shooting a few pics for an add for a kitchen cleaning foam, which looked of course, horrible on film. So trying a few substitutes dad finds out shaving cream is the best looking product lookalike to shoot on film. So he scoots to the local grocery store, and buys three cans of shaving cream (can take many tries to get a nice shot.), the clerk looks at the cans, and then at my dad's beard, and tells him "Though decission, eh?". lol.

3) Last story, dad was to make some shoots for an olive oil's new can design to show the new design to the public... problem is, the client didn't send the cans to shoot them (DOH), so dad and mom go out to hunt for a can in the market to buy it and get some shots done, they find a bunch at a place owned by a person from a certain part of spain that are well known for their stuborness

(I'm not one to fall into stereotypes but every person from that area I've met IS stuborn as hell, not that I can talk much, I'm descended from another spain area, the Vazqe country which is also known for stuborn people and which I fit perfectly, lol)

Anyhow, they ask the guy for a tin of olive oil, and he had both the older ones, and the new design. When the guy goes to hand them an old tin, dad asks for a newer one (he needed the new design for the shots), the guy looks at him in the eye and tells dad "It's the same oil, that's capricious..", there was NO way dad or mom could explain the guy why they wanted the newer tin, he didn't budge an inch. Finally they had to give up and find the oil tin in another commerce across town to make the shoots in time.

hehehe, working in audio, cinema, photography sure makes for a lot of funny stories (like the time an indigenous person in the middle of a mountain fixed dad's arriflex with a couple of matchsticks, but that's for another day).