You're so cheap

[Format C]

expired condoms?

serious russian roulette

More like "Mustang Ranch Roulette"

[trunks2k]

First of all, you shouldn't have sold him expired condoms. The fact they were expired should have prompted you to tell him to get another box rather than just doing a price check.

Second of all, did he even know they were expired when he picked them up?

Third of all, if I were him, I wouldn't be embarassed, I'd be proud

[Becks]

Thats an awful lot of condoms to use in less than a week.

Maybe they don't last long and go for quantity over quality.

[blas]

I always bury condoms at the bottom of my cart and even look around before scanning them at the SCOs. I know, better safe than sorry, it shows responsibility and I am an adult so who should care......but I just feel so.....dirty....lol.

I'm so glad I'm on the shot and don't menstruate, I have never been able to buy women's products LOL.

[Mr B Rabbit]

Thats an awful lot of condoms to use in less than a week.

Not if you've got nothing else to do for three or four days. You'd be suprised.

[Ackee]

Join the club...

Gotta love the huggles, though

Nice to see I am not the only one...

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Ok, so he wanted to save a little money by buying stuff off of the distressed rack. That's not that much of a big deal as most of us will at least look at the rack to see if we could find a good deal.

Buying a 30 pack of condoms is not that hard to understand. Either the guy gets a lot of action and he's doing the smart thing and making sure he doesn't catch some STD thus spreading the problem even wider, or he is trying to make sure that he and his wife aren't going to have a child before they are damn good and ready to.

It is also possible that he doesn't know that they expire and therefore isn't looking for an expiration date. Lets face it...except for milk and medicine, I don't check exp dates at all. I assume that my chips, cookies, and other munchies are still good since they have to restock the damn things almost every time I go to the store. I buy my meat either for that night's consumption or will be frozen as soon as I get home and I don't check expiration since I know how fresh meat should look (nicely red or pink, moist but not swimming in it's own gore).

We are talking about something that is called 'rubbers' after and one doesn't think of rubber going sour on us.

I also don't see where it was required to announce to the store at large about the fact that he had a 30-pack of condoms. That's really embarrassing to some people, is widely done on comedy shows and sit-coms, and is the main reason why I don't buy things like that unless it's online. It's like the time my previous wife went to the store and had the clerk announce a price check on her Yeast Infection Medication to the store at large. When that happened she bolted from the store at full speed got into the car and drove off unbeknownst to me who was looking at the latest Pop-Sci at the magazine rack.

Unless the guy was a jack-hole (which wasn't stated in the op) I fail to see the suck factor here. If it were me behind the counter I'd have pointed out the fact that the condoms were expired, offered to see if I could find him a newer package and certainly have not announced it to the store at large unless the guy was an asshole.

Mongo

[Max]

I really question the ethics of a store that would knowingly sell expired condoms, on sale or otherwise. That's just a heinous, irresponsible thing to do.

[blas]

I have condoms under my bed that don't expire until 2009. These things aren't like milk......they can go a while before expiring. The condoms in this story had to have been on the shelves since 2000-2003..........

But how can that go unnoticed to people working there?!!?!?

[Mr B Rabbit]

Could be that everyone was too embarassed to be seen examining them to check the expiry date?

[katie kaboom]

good god why? they're condoms, not sex toys for god's sake.

[greensinestro]

Kind of like that episode on "The Golden Girls" when they were going away for a weekend, and when they tried to buy condoms they didn't register either. There always seems to be a problem with price checks on unmentionable items like this.

Also, "Mr Mom" when Michael Keaton tried to buy tampons or sanitary napkins for his wife, and the same thing happened where the cashier got on her microphone, requesting a price check but also naming the product he was buying.

[powerboy]

Mongo, my thoughts exactly. It is, to some people really embarrassing. And the only one I could see being sucky, was the OP, for the fact of announcing it in front of the whole store, like she did