# Eyebrow raising purchase combinations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735 "2009-08-26T02:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/21 "2009-08-26T16:05:16Z")
Someone can’t read a recipe. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/22 "2009-08-26T16:07:11Z")
I was once actually questioned by a checkout person when I bought four large NyQuil. I was working off a shopping list for seniors who had transportation problems and several four thought they needed NyQuil. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/23 "2009-08-26T16:08:10Z")
Not an odd combo, but an odd quantity. We have a slightly creepy guy that shops at our store, a few weeks ago I saw him at the local megamart buying 6 gallons of bleach. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/24 "2009-08-26T16:12:21Z")
I can’t say I was surprised, because it was at a 7-11, but I couldn’t help but laugh the day I stood in line behind the guy who bought two 40-oz. cans of beer, a box of condoms and a pack of Marlboro’s. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/25 "2009-08-26T16:19:38Z")
I was with a friend buying food for a barbecue. We shoved a pile of guy-type food up onto the conveyor, and then he remembered he was out of toilet paper, so he darted off and grabbed a twelve-pack and tossed it on the pile. When the checker started ringing him up, he leaned toward her and inquired in a casual tone, “In your _professional opinion,_ is this the _right_ amount of toilet paper for this much food?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/26 "2009-08-26T16:24:49Z")
It’s not uncommon for TheKid to ask me to buy her a teen magazine when I go shopping. I also have taken to buying Gerber baby food (meat only) for the cat. Add that that, we are of the “Duct tape fixes everything” mindset, and go through it pretty quickly. Yes, I do receive odd looks from cashiers. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/27 "2009-08-26T16:27:00Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > A few weeks ago saw a little old lady with a few standard items such as lunch meat and 10 bottles of hydrogen peroxide. 10 bottles? What do you need 10 bottles for? removing stains from marble topped tables - like coffee cup rings, or anything that gets spilled. My mom has 18 marble topped tables/cabinets.sideboards… We used to have more when we lived in a very large [queen anne style house](http://www.homefinder.com/NY/Perry/39961560d_108_North_Main_St) We moved from that into a standard cookie cutter tract house with 3 bedrooms. Thank god for basements and attics…but we had one hell of an auction before we moved… ---
**Author:** ![imfloating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc79bd/32.png) [@imfloating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imfloating)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/28 "2009-08-26T16:28:07Z")
> [@CaveMike](#): > > Instead of what? Whole milk? Skim milk? I don’t get it. What’s the point of drinking 2% if your going to add chocolate syrup. Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought 2% was like diet milk. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/29 "2009-08-26T16:28:47Z")
A few Christmas Eves ago, I was unexpectedly confronted with the (new) expectation that I would be contributing to the others’ Christmas stockings. So, with the rest of the family out of the house, I skedaddled down to the 24-hour depanneur to stock up on candy. While there, I happened to come across a box of the straight razor blades I need for my stovetop scraper, and which at the time I was finding difficult to find elsewhere. So I added them to the pile. They were from that little dry-goods stand they hardly ever sell anything from, so the clerk didn’t recognize them and asked me what they were. “Razor blades,” I said absently. _disturbed look_ “Merry _Christ_mas.” LOL! “I’m emo, but I’m not _that_ emo,” I told her. ---
**Author:** ![Sonnenstrahl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Sonnenstrahl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonnenstrahl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/30 "2009-08-26T16:31:55Z")
> [@imfloating](#): > > What’s the point of drinking 2% if your going to add chocolate syrup. > Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought 2% was like diet milk. 2% is standard, as far as I know. 😕 If you buy chocolate milk premixed, it’s either 1 or 2%. Do you normally drink half and half? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/31 "2009-08-26T16:32:05Z")
2% has less fat, and chocolate syrup doesn’t have any fat (it has sugar). She may have been cutting back on fat but having a sugary treat. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/32 "2009-08-26T16:32:08Z")
> [@imfloating](#): > > What’s the point of drinking 2% if your going to add chocolate syrup. > Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought 2% was like diet milk. Barely. Whole milk is around 3% butterfat. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/33 "2009-08-26T16:32:16Z")
Razor blades and a small mirror. As I was checking out, a friend grabbed a few straws from a dispenser on the concession stand counter. I then realized a) we were being stared at by more than one Piggly Wiggly employee who’d apparently connected the dots, and b) I probably shouldn’t have brought the contraband into the store in my jacket pocket. Ah, college. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/34 "2009-08-26T16:53:20Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Barely. Whole milk is around 3% butterfat. That’s 50% more fat. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/35 "2009-08-26T16:58:06Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > That’s 50% more fat. Ya know, I should remember that, being a Wisconsinite by birth. Shows you how much milk I drink these days. Then again, 2% is typically criticized as being too fatty for most people (aside from growing kids who aren’t overweight) to be drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/36 "2009-08-26T17:01:54Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Ya know, I should remember that, being a Wisconsinite by birth. Shows you how much milk I drink these days. > > Then again, 2% is typically criticized as being too fatty for most people (aside from growing kids who aren’t overweight) to be drinking. I prefer 2%. I can drink skim if it’s all that’s around, but other then that it’s too watery for me and makes awful chocolate milk. It just doesn’t mix properly with Hershey’s. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/37 "2009-08-26T17:08:00Z")
Me: Rope. Gloves. Bleach. Duct Tape. Carving Knife. Why yes, I did look totally like a serial killer. Rose McGowan at the grocery store behind me in line: Band-aids (spongebob). Low-fat yogurt. minature novelty Laker’s basketball Durex Long Last Condoms. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/38 "2009-08-26T17:08:21Z")
Skim milk, if anything, would be “diet milk.” 2% is probably the most common, but I don’t likes it. Too… fatty tasting. If they have it, I go with 1/2% or 1%. Sidenote: My dad, who doesn’t drink milk, has always thought that the percentages didn’t represent the amount of fat, but the amount of milk. So, “2% milk” is actually 2% milk, like diluted with water, I suppose, in the same way a bottle with 2oz of Pepsi and 198oz of water would be 2% Pepsi. Lordy knows what he thought skim milk is. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/39 "2009-08-26T17:26:09Z")
Shortly after my niece was born and I was staying with my sister to help with the new baby I felt odd buy a six pack of beer and several different types of bottle nipples. Just this past Sunday, I purchased a bottle of wine and a tup of Cool-Whip. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/40 "2009-08-26T17:40:51Z")
> [@MissMossie](#): > > Shortly after my niece was born and I was staying with my sister to help with the new baby I felt odd buy a six pack of beer and several different types of bottle nipples. I beliee the correct thing to say to the clerk is “don’t laugh, at least he sleeps thru the night.” Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735.md?page=3)