Inspired by the current pit rant to which I can’t be bothered linking.
Wrtie a shopping list of no more than five items (that you would expect to find in a modern mega-store), the juxtaposition of which is most likely to cause the cashier to blush, raise his/her eyebrows or avoid eye contact.
For example:
A roll of duct tape
A tube of KY jelly
A cucumber
I had a guy stand in line in front of me who was wearing leather chaps, no shirt, lust leather tack and a leather ballcap. All he was buying was a bunch of bananas and a dozen roses. Hot date, I guess.
These are ACTUAL items that I purchased last year. The cashier is probably still having nightmares.
A box of tampons (hey, I needed them)
Eight boxes of condoms (we were decorating for a bachelorette party)
A tube of Prepartation H (there’s a beauty tip that says Prep H will reduce the redness that sometimes lingers after a zit, and we thought we’d give this a go prior to the wedding photos being taken. I’m sorry to report it didn’t work very well.)
Two huge tubs of axle grease
A box of latex gloves
One Mickey Mouse Halloween costume.
A broomstick.
On a related note, an ex-girlfriend and I once went Christmas shopping and ended up coming to the counter with an inflatable sheep, a GWAR video, a hot water bottle, and approximately twenty Hello Kitty stuffed animals. We could tell the cashier was using every ounce of her control to not ask what the hell we were planning.