A bag for your bag

[BookstoreEscapee]

I have an OT about bags. Wige and I went to the grocery store yesterday and the bagger (who was actually the manager helping out) asked if we wanted paper or plastic. I fumbled my words saying it didn't matter.

Wow, I don't remember the last time I got that question. Stores around here automatically give you plastic unless you ask. And they hide the paper under the counter so you have to ask. I like paper better sometimes, but we reuse the plastic ones for garbage in the kitchen (we have this plastic frame thingy meant for that purpose). My cats like to play in the bags so I like paper better for that - I have visions of them suffocating themselves .

As for my prescriptions, my old pharm. used white paper bags. My new one uses clear zip-type bags, I usually just toss it on the belt when I pay for my groceries so it gets put in the bag with everything else.

[SuperB]

Had a guy this last summer buying tampons and looking a bit like he was embarassed but was sucking it up trying not to be. My husband, always the smartass, started to tease him and he got a laugh. I however looked him straight in the eye and recalling a comedian from years ago told him to *never* be embarassed about buying tampons because it says (as I slap the box down on the counter) "I have a WOMAN!"
He'd obviously never heard that one and laughed, told me I was right and he'd never be embarassed again.

Condoms, I've yet to have anyone obviously embarassed but I have them behind the counter so they have to ask and not just steal them because they were embarassed. One guy in fact made it a point of requesting the extra large.

My kids are way too young yet and I indend to force feed them the importance of waiting on sex, preferably until they are in a seriously committed relationship with the extreme possibility of marriage, but at least until they are old enough to accept the concequences of their choice both physically and emotionally but I also intend to make it well known to them that if they find out their friends are having unprotected sex they can get condoms from the store.

[zzapp the witch]

I like buying my condoms 2 12 packs at a time. Yes, nosy shoppers, this girl gets laid a LOT. (I don't, but hey, the illusion of quantity, right?)

And when the baggers ask me if I'd like paper or plastic, I ponder out loud: "Hmmm, kill a tree or choke a fish?" While tapping my chin and looking at the ceiling.

[Mark Healey]

Had a guy this last summer buying tampons and looking a bit like he was embarassed but was sucking it up trying not to be. My husband, always the smartass, started to tease him and he got a laugh. I however looked him straight in the eye and recalling a comedian from years ago told him to *never* be embarassed about buying tampons because it says (as I slap the box down on the counter) "I have a WOMAN!"

Rick Scheidner, I'm not sure about the spelling.

[Ciarrai]

I've never been embarassed to buy tampons, pads or condoms. The combination of the three of them shows that I'm a) getting laid and b) not getting pregnant. I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

I have had some pretty embarassed customers though when I was a cashier. I had one girl go beet red and run away when I had to do a price check on some OB tampons and the person to come check for them was a guy. And no, my price check over the intercom was not "price check on tampons" but rather "price check from aisle 10."
As for the condoms, some of you may remember the first story I posted here about the lady who thought I called her a slut when I said have a good night after she bought condoms. Some people are strange about them.

[Horsetuna]

Never was embarassed myself, albeit I did get embarrased once asking a pharmacy woman to help me find out which tampons were 'skinniest'. She said we were all the same size down there. (NOT).

I finally switched to OB, which I love, though I am thinking of spending money on The Shot as well, if only so i dont suffer. I get so horrible stuff.


Slightly OT: My dad bought me pads once when I lived with him. It surprised me, but he just shrugged and said it was nothing worse than buying me diapers, and he took my old bag to make sure he got the same kind. Good old dad.

[tollbaby]

Condoms, I've yet to have anyone obviously embarassed but I have them behind the counter so they have to ask and not just steal them because they were embarassed. One guy in fact made it a point of requesting the extra large.

Talk about embarassing when I discovered that. I thought they were one-size fits all (naive 31 year old me, right?) Well, before I went out and bought these, my boyfriend was *ghasp* a virgin, and had never put one on. Very embarassed and frustrated when I had to run back to the drugstore because what I'd bought wouldn't fit (he may not have ever put one on before, but I was familiar enough with the process to know that it was the wrong size).

[Barefootgirl]

Get a mooncup, then you never have to fret about buying tampax or towels again. They are FAB.

Speaking of bags for your bag, I recently bought a new handbag and a new purse. Both items came with little green dustbags to keep them nice when I wasn't using them, and in a carrier bag from the shop where I bought them. How many bags for your bag, madam?

[Rapscallion]

Get a mooncup, then you never have to fret about buying tampax or towels again. They are FAB.

Just don't return them to the shop once used. I speak from unfortunate experience.

Blech.

Rapscallion

[Rubystars]

I don't understand why people are so embarassed to buy the items. If the store didn't expect people to buy them, they wouldn't sell them. I can't speak for other cashiers, but I don't care what people are buying. I'm just glad they're actually buying the items instead of stealing them. The store I work at is constantly getting pregnancy tests, condoms, and other so-called 'embarassing' items stolen.

As for being embarassed about condoms? Why should you be? Would you rather have people think you're irresponsible? Buying condoms at least shows you have a brain.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Some people may be embarrassed about having to take meds, like those with hemorrhoids, fungal infections, or mental disorders. So they may request the bag to hide that they are buying them.

Case in point:

Today I was buying my bottle of Sobe for my lunch break, and the woman in front of me purchased the following:

• 5 boxes of Correctol
• 2 jars of Metamucil ( the largest size we carry)
• 3 boxes of Phillips chocolate laxatives

She asked for everything to be placed in a large bag, and that bag placed in an even larger bag.

I can't say I blame her. I wouldn't want to broadcast to everybody around me that I was stopped up.

Took a lot for me to avoid busting out giggling though...

[BookstoreEscapee]

And when the baggers ask me if I'd like paper or plastic, I ponder out loud: "Hmmm, kill a tree or choke a fish?" While tapping my chin and looking at the ceiling.

At the bookstore they only have plastic. Whenever someone told me "no bag" I'd say "Save a plastic tree"

This thread title made me laugh, cuz they sell those canvas tote bags at the store, and whenever someone bought one (especially if it was the only thing they bought, that's exactly what I said: "A bag for your bag?" Most people who bought them would just put the rest of their purchases inside it.

Had one customer who had one of those, she exchanged stuff a lot (always had her receipt, what can ya do?) but she always brought it in one of those bags and put her new purchases back in it. (She was nice, and she usually spent more than she returned anyway.)

[tollbaby]

are you sure that lady wasn't harboring the misapprehension that maybe those things could clear her DRAINS? good lord... the crap-producing capacity of the items in that bag is just SCARY.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Somehow, I think it's kind of tough to confuse drain cleaner with laxatives. I can only hope she wasn't buying for just herself.

I'd also like the record to show that this woman did NOT purchase any toilet paper during her visit, so I hope she has an ample supply already stocked up.

[Ciarrai]

Maybe she works for an old folks home? That would make sense.