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what's the most embarassing item you've ever bought in a shop

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Here's the situation:

You are on your way home from work, and your girlfriend rings you and tells you she is out of tampons. Shock, horror! A guy walking into a shop and buying tampons. Oh the humiliation!!!

Well, I'm trying to find out have guys out there ever bought embarrassing items.

In my personal experience I've bought everything: tampons, condoms, ky lube,

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MooseJam

a dildo for yore ma !

Owen

A buttplug for your Ma. But seriously (No pun intended), KY would have been one of the worst I guess.

Nothingcompares

you know you're a real man when you've bought tampons for your girlfriend/wife in the shop.

trout

Nipple shields for breastfeeding mother ... and having to ask for "some cream beginning with L that you rub on cracked nipples which will be safe for the baby". :eek:

Ruu_Old

Nothingcompares wrote:

you know you're a real man when you've bought tampons for your girlfriend/wife in the shop.

Keep telling yourself that. *makes whipping noises*

Sunday World here.

muboop1

yeh, the usual, tampons, condoms, lube...

biko

Irish Star *shudders*

blow69

biko wrote:

Irish Star *shudders*

Brilliant!

RE*AC*TOR

I have never ever ever had a problem buying tampons. They're quite obviously not for me, and its unlikely I have some sort of tampon fetish.

The most embarassing thing you can buy really is a porno mag. What's even worse is when you are about 15 and buying a porno mag from the local newsagent. First of all, I was too young, so I was wary of being refused, secondly there is no mistaking your intended use of a porn mag. Essentially you are going up to the till and saying, I wish to buy this magazine to aid my masturbation, yes that reflects my sexual desires better than any of your other magazines.

Its not so bad buying things in a sex shop - they are dirty bastards in there anyway.

Preparation H is to a lesser extent embarassing. At least when they used to sell TCP Ointment its use was ambiguous. But Preparation H - well that's for rubbing on your sphincter.

Terry

biko wrote:

Irish Star *shudders*

Thought it would have been the Dublin edition of the Herald.

Anyway, asking the hot chick in the chemist for something to lube up the supposiitories i had to take (KY it was).

Irish Wolf

lol.. worse and even more embarassing than biko...

The Daily Mail!

Dr_Teeth

When I was little my uncle (damn him) asked me to run into the shop and buy him the Daily Sport, which I did.. how surprised I was that it didn't contain much in the way of sports!

Kintarō Hattori

Buying a softcore porno movie when I was younger in Chapters.

Terry

Chapters rules.

Zebra3

muboop1 wrote:

yeh, the usual, tampons, condoms, lube...

Yeah, but when they're all second-hand....literally as well....

qwertyface

My gayer friend makes me go in to buy his magazines every month. My favourite so far was last year's "Attitude- porn special". I think by now the easons staff recognise me as the young girl with the man-on-man fetish!

cson

Buying lingerie for the other half was an altogether illuminating experience. Not buying the lingerie itself but the fact that I'd forgotten to get the sizes. (Honestly whats with the letters of the alphabet? Could they not just have small, medium and large? T'was like some sort of code begorrah!)

Now cson here expected the scene in Enemy Of The State, you know where Will Smith doesn't know the size either but the lovely helpful shop assistants strip down and say "Is she this big" while fondling their breasts. Alas, the shop assistants I got were not so helpful. I left the shop lingerie-less on their advice to come back when I'd checked the sizes. It was quite an experience to say the fecking least.

irlirishkev

The doc prescribed me this stuff to clear out my bowels once when I was having toilet trouble.

Went into the chemist, and was shocked to see one of the fit ex-loungegirls from the local pub working behind the counter. Too late to turn around and walk out, she'd seen me and said hello..

I don't think I've seen her since thank f*ck!

Terry

cson wrote:

Buying lingerie for the other half was an altogether illuminating experience. Not buying the lingerie itself but the fact that I'd forgotten to get the sizes. (Honestly whats with the letters of the alphabet? Could they not just have small, medium and large? T'was like some sort of code begorrah!)

Try buying underwear for yourself when there are 2 hot chicks behind you.
I was about 14 at the time and weighed about 8 stone. The underwear was catercorised by waist size. I was a 26" or something and that meant buy size Small.
Huge queue and hot chicks laughing at me all the way through.

Kintarō Hattori

Terry wrote:

Try buying underwear for yourself when there are 2 hot chicks behind you.
I was about 14 at the time and weighed about 8 stone. The underwear was catercorised by waist size. I was a 26" or something and that meant buy size Small.
Huge queue and hot chicks laughing at me all the way through.

Has it left any lasting emotional distress?

I can't recall anything embarrassing, have bought everything already listed in the thread but buying said items wouldn't really "embarrass" me

admiralofthefleet

a grumble mag

Terry

eo980 wrote:

Has it left any lasting emotional distress?

Yes.
I have trouble getting an erection when with a woman due to the laughter of said hot chicks.
Other than that, everything is fine, just fine.

cson

Jesus buying boxers is no major drama in my book. I'd rather have a clean supply myself than be getting 16 days out of the one pair, isn't that right Flutter, wherever ya are.

I bought a few cans of Dutch Gold before, that was highly embarrassing I have to say.

Kintarō Hattori

I encouraged my missus to get a Dildo for the ahem, times I was wasn't there. I went along with her to Ann Summers while she was choosing. That was a tad embarassing.

po0k

I don't understand this embarressment over purchasing goods from a vendor.
Hard currency is still hard currency. Let apathy be your light and saviour.

cson

Ah I found the whole Ann Summers thing to be fairly humourous, went in for the same reasons as oe890 except I was minus the missus. The girl in the shop went out of her way to help me there, I had to apologise 3 or 4 times for bursting out laughing in her face when she told me what the different things did. Not embarrassing in the slightest.

Naos

The Evening Herald.

I was about 9 and my mam was getting her haircut. She asked me to go down to local newsagent and to get the Evening Herald.

I heard "Eddie Harold".

So I went into the newsagent and was looking through all the papers, flicking open a Sun and seeing my first boob

, and eventually had to ask the shop keeper where the hell they keep the Eddie Harolds.

He laughed. Then yelled out to the other shopkeeper, who laughed. Then pointed me to the correct newspaper.

Bastard.

2 stroke

I've bought all the stuf mentioned here, but the most embarrasing thing ever, was buying a Daniel O Donnell cd. (it was for a gift) I even feel embarrased admitting it now.

bronte

sure it was

emm.. i'd say lube is pretty awful to have to buy... condoms too, especially if it's a local chemist and the aul wans looking at you thinking " i know what you'll be up to later" arrghh!
Recently had to get cystitis medicine but the young lass in boots was really nice and helpful, and didn't make it weird at all