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

Reku · 25-07-2007 01:06PM

loyatemu wrote:

had to admire the guy in front of me at tesco's the other day

His purchases:
1 - a slab of Dutch Gold
2 - a tube of KY

and that was it. He clearly had a good evening planned.

Maybe he just liked vaseline on his toast and they were all out.:p
Can't think of anything particularly embarassing things I've had to buy... either that or I've made myself forget, it so bad.:(

blah · 25-07-2007 01:18PM

I remember I was about 10 or 11 and my mother sent me to the supermarket to buy scallions. I knew what scallions were but I wandered around the fruit and veg section in vain. Finally I saw some leeks, which I thought looked like "big scallions", so I went over to the shop assistant (who was having a good natter with her mate) and asked "Are these scallions?". She goes "Scallions? He thinks they're scallions, they're leeks!", and they bother cackled like witches.
And then resumed their conversation. I was humiliated.

Needless to say, I came home without scallions (or leeks) and ever since that day I have resented poor customer service with a vengeance.

Also, I'm embarrased about the time I went into the chemist to buy condoms, but came out with cotton wool, a comb and cough syrup

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 25-07-2007 03:39PM

in tesco a few days before xmass a few years ago (very busy), was with a lady friend (suit you sir!). let her get a good bit ahead of me, pick up a random pack of tampons, and shout down the isle to her, "Isnt this the type you want?"
we were both 13 or 14 at the time, was funny at the time, the looks we got!

Dun laoire · 25-07-2007 03:46PM

I was caught a beauty by a jimmy jimmy in the Canary islands a few years back. I bought a watch off the little boll1x but when the big hand got to the top it fell back down to the bottom. Stitched up big time. Fair play to the fella, he saw the pidgeon and took full advantage.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 25-07-2007 03:48PM

Chumpski wrote:

Me and my girlfriend were in boots one day and we were trying out a new brand. There was a 3 for 2 on them but i only got one. As i say we were trying them out. Went up to the counter and paid and the girl goes without thinking "theres a 3 for 2 on them" and i just looked at the girlfriend and smirked and the girl went all red and couldnt look at us the rest of the time. My girlfriend felt soo bad for her! I got a good smack on the arm outside the shop for embarrasing both of them!

studded eh?

cance · 25-07-2007 03:58PM

O.o

and one last one...

in supervalu buying beer.it wasnt my purchase that was embarrassing.it was reaching into my backpocket grabbed note + change + pocket junk.

ended up handing the girl a 20 and the corner of a durex condom wrapper.

/hands girl 20 euro's + durex wrapper.
girls face drops (16-17y/o afaik)
me "ill have that back" /yoink
/run

Mr. Incognito · 25-07-2007 04:05PM

Oh Jesus.

Thrush Cream,
Condoms,
Porn,
Body Lice shampoo (personal favourite)
Lube.

I find the best thing is to try and freak the sales assistant out. Like ask for Mates and if they don't have them complain about the quality of Durex and refuse to but them. Make he look in the store-room for your mates. Fun.

sweet-rasmus · 25-07-2007 04:11PM

cance wrote:

i always send her to do it, value is value! :P

last time i went to buy condoms i realised halfway up the queue my ex girlfriend (3 years, messy, messy breakup) was the counter assistant.

now i had two choices, face the music and give her the satisfaction of mortifiying me... or be that guy who chickened out of the queue with condoms in his hand.

i chose to face the music, she mortified me in front of her colleagues... and my gran entered the pharmacy to pickup her prescription arounds about the time i got to the counter.

i took some satisfaction in the letter to her manager about acceptable staff behavior that got her in alot of trouble, but the horror still exists.

never again.

i love it! well done

for me, sure, buying condoms was pretty embarassing the first few times i bought them. i'm well over it now

m83 · 25-07-2007 06:12PM

I'll never forget the evening in Tescoes when I saw two overtly camp men buying a cucumber, KY jelly and a box of celebrations. Huzzah!

Zaph · 25-07-2007 06:35PM

Only thing that really springs to mind is the time I happened to mention that I was going around to the local newsagent for a paper and the old man shouts after me "While you're there pop into the chemist next door and pick up a pack of suppositories for me, my piles are at me again". Now in fairness I'm sure it's an awful affliction and I had some degree of sympathy with the oul' fella, but when you're 22 and the girl behind the counter in the chemist is around your age and a cracker, the last thing you want to be asking her for is a packet of Anusol.

Niamho! · 25-07-2007 09:23PM

Mear wrote:

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.

Ah this thread has given me such a good laugh!! this post so far in particular. Lmao.....ah god....

Niamho! · 25-07-2007 09:32PM

ptashka wrote:

it's gotta be the fungus treatments, cuz if u want a somewhat decent doze of the drug, all of a sudden it goes from atheletes foot to THRUSH treatment...how embarassing is that

ooh....i thought i hadn't bought anything embarassing but you reminded me...yeah. A thrush treatment. I wasn't really embarassed though, however i did feel like Whispering to the Girl that i didnt get it from too much sex and it was infact the Anti-biotics I was on at the time that caused it. so yeah i suppose it was kinda embarassing....:o

matrim · 25-07-2007 09:53PM

Just after I got a tattoo I went to the chemist to get Bepanthin (Nappy rash cream). I didn't know what it was so I went in and asked the girl for it. While she was bringing me over to get it she asked me what age my baby was, I replied that I didn't have a baby and it was for me. She gave me this really weird look when she gave it to me. After I saw what it's supposed to be for I ended up going red and stuttering that it was for a tattoo.

For the tampons, I used to work in a supermarket and sometimes had to put them on the shelf. You'd always see women walk down the aisle, and past you, but as soon as I turned my back to get something they would rush in and pick up a pack because they were too embarrassed to get them when someone was there packing the shelf.

Terry · 25-07-2007 10:19PM

The herald one happened me too.
Myself and a friend worked in a chinese restaurant/takeaway when we were 13/14.
The owner asked us to go across the road and get the herald.
What we heard was "Harrow".
We had no idea what it was and went to the butcher down the road and asked him.
He sent us to the fish shop across the road. They told us that there wouldn't be any harrow in until the next day.
The owner was less than pleased when we came back and told her that the fish shop didn't have any harrow.
She threw the previous days paper at us.

Deliverance · 25-07-2007 10:54PM

Terry wrote:

The herald one happened me too.
Myself and a friend worked in a chinese restaurant/takeaway when we were 13/14.
The owner asked us to go across the road and get the herald.
What we heard was "Harrow".
We had no idea what it was and went to the butcher down the road and asked him.
He sent us to the fish shop across the road. They told us that there wouldn't be any harrow in until the next day.
The owner was less than pleased when we came back and told her that the fish shop didn't have any harrow.
She threw the previous days paper at us.

That is hilarious. Would have been even funnier if the Fish shop had Harrow in that day. Being slapped with a wet fish might have hurt.

Aisling(",) · 25-07-2007 10:57PM

i once bought condoms and a pregnancy test four days apart but the girl that was serving me was the same both times and gave me disaproving looks because i was in mi school uniform and because i look about 13!

my friends were pissing them selves a few steps away because of the disaproving looks i was gettin and the fact that neither of the things were for me!(pregnancy test was for a joke and the condoms were part of a birthday present !!)

Anto McC · 25-07-2007 11:14PM

Aisling(",) wrote:

my friends were pissing them selves a few steps away because of the disaproving looks i was gettin and the fact that neither of the things were for me!(pregnancy test was for a joke and the condoms were part of a birthday present !!)

Thats what they all say

When i was a small lad about 9, my brother sent me the hardware shop for a tin of stripy paint. I asked for it too and it's been pretty damn embarrassing ever since.

Terry · 25-07-2007 11:16PM

Deliverance wrote:

That is hilarious. Would have been even funnier if the Fish shop had Harrow in that day. Being slapped with a wet fish might have hurt.

There is no fish known as harrow.
The butcher and fish shop owner were friends and were just winding us up.
They knew the owner of the restaurant and the butcher rang the fish shop after we left his pla(i)ce.
He told us about it a few years later.

Terry · 25-07-2007 11:17PM

Anto McC wrote:

Thats what they all say

When i was a small lad about 9, my brother sent me the hardware shop for a tin of stripy paint. I asked for it too and it's been pretty damn embarrassing ever since.

Did the hardware shop bit to my friends sister.
The owner came out and chased us away after we sent her in the third time.
Long stand, Skirting ladder and stripy paint.

Kintarō Hattori · 25-07-2007 11:27PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

You act as if you have not bought a leather gimp suit for your girlfriend. You don't fool me.

But a furry suit is much MUCH funnier! I have visions in my mind ya see of what it would look like. I wasn't implying it was a bad thing, just very very funny.

Anto McC · 25-07-2007 11:28PM

I've sent a few people for them myself, sent a lad to the butchers for a pudding bender and another for sky hooks. When he was in Spain,my Da asked my brothers mate to go the shop for the Evening Herald and off he went

Deliverance · 25-07-2007 11:35PM

Terry wrote:

Did the hardware shop bit to my friends sister.
The owner came out and chased us away after we sent her in the third time.
Long stand, Skirting ladder and stripy paint.

I was caught by the long stand, and stood in the bosses office while they pissed themselves laughing, the fact that I still stood there waiting in confusion made them go into fits. I had to leave the office so they could recover. Right of passage.

Tar.Aldarion · 26-07-2007 08:43AM

eo980 wrote:

But a furry suit is much MUCH funnier! I have visions in my mind ya see of what it would look like. I wasn't implying it was a bad thing, just very very funny.

I'm glad you find my clothes so funny.:mad:
:-)

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

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