# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/41 "2009-08-26T17:46:18Z")
I hatebuying condoms so when I do I buy a lot at a time. I also have a huge sweettooth and I usually end up buying candy whenever I’m in a store. So yeah, I checkedout with a couple of boxes of condoms and a lot of candy. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/42 "2009-08-26T17:54:56Z")
A friend of mine got a job at the local drug store in high school. She quit after her first customer came through with a Hustler magazine and a tub of petroleum jelly. ---
**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, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/43 "2009-08-26T18:10:54Z")
> [@Sonnenstrahl](#): > > 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? Actually, yes. My wife drinks organic whole milk and I drink half and half. I was under the impression that 2% was some watered down chalky tasting milk wannabe. I drink half and half in coffee or when eating cold cereal. I drink regular whole milk with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/44 "2009-08-26T18:35:04Z")
> [@imfloating](#): > > Actually, yes. My wife drinks organic whole milk and I drink half and half. I was under the impression that 2% was some watered down chalky tasting milk wannabe. I drink half and half in coffee or when eating cold cereal. I drink regular whole milk with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Wow, it had never occurred to me that one could use Half and Half in cereal. Half and Half always means ‘making soup or sauces’ to me. But then, I grew up on skim milk and have always viewed whole, 1%, 2% etc…as the ‘fattening milks’ without differentiating between them. If I’m buying weird stuff I usually just add more to my load, to hide the strangeness. Does anyone else add in fruits and vegetables that they’re probably not going to eat when they’re on a Doritos and candy run? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/45 "2009-08-26T18:37:54Z")
On Christmas morning last year, I bought Astroglide and batteries at CVS. I still wonder what the clerk thought about that. The two items were unrelated - the batteries were for the kids’ new toys and I bought the Astroglide because I needed to buy something to take advantage of a deal which made the batteries cheaper. I was out of Astroglide, so that’s what I chose to buy. ---
**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, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/46 "2009-08-26T18:47:48Z")
Jesus. Half and half is… it’s so much fat. Calories. Lots of them. There’s a reason they come in those tiny little cups at diners. Better than using heavy whipping cream, I guess, but dayum. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/47 "2009-08-26T18:49:41Z")
Yeah, I can’t get past this. Someone _drinks_ half-and-half. Like, straight. That’s just… _blurrrrrrgh_. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/48 "2009-08-26T19:01:25Z")
While I was working at 7-11, one well-read customer bought a kiddy-type comic book and a Playboy. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/49 "2009-08-26T19:04:00Z")
Buncha my gal pals (all upper Midwest gals), bridesmaids in a friend’s wedding in North Carolina. Off to the local Wal-Mart, and then after shopping checking out with: A bunch of little silk flowers. Condoms. Disposable cameras. Vaseline. And vitamin C. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/50 "2009-08-26T19:33:02Z")
Back in the old country (California), you could buy liquor at the grocery store and most convenience stores. I would buy liquor with most purchases. Liquor and tampons. Liquor and Ziploc bags. Liquor and vitamins. I don’t know if any of this is eyebrow raising, but that’s pretty much how every trip to Albertsons went. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/51 "2009-08-26T19:37:07Z")
> [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](#): > > If I’m buying weird stuff I usually just add more to my load, to hide the strangeness. Does anyone else add in fruits and vegetables that they’re probably not going to eat when they’re on a Doritos and candy run? 🙂 :o Busted! I’ll also buy a few extra things when I’m buying tampons or pads. I think the oddest combination I’ve bought was the time I was teaching a class on foods considered to be aphrodisiacs in the middle ages, but fortunately, I don’t think the clerk noticed. ---
**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, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/52 "2009-08-26T19:44:45Z")
> [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](#): > > If I’m buying weird stuff I usually just add more to my load, to hide the strangeness. Does anyone else add in fruits and vegetables that they’re probably not going to eat when they’re on a Doritos and candy run? 🙂 My husband and I should have. Last time we bought beer at the supermarket, we bought a few 12-packs’ worth to stock up, and some snack-type foods. The cashier asked if we were having a party. Nope, just alcoholics by your estimation, I guess? ---
**Author:** ![kathmandu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kathmandu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kathmandu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/53 "2009-08-26T20:47:23Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Jesus. Half and half is… it’s so much fat. Calories. Lots of them. There’s a reason they come in those tiny little cups at diners. > > Better than using heavy whipping cream, I guess, but dayum. It’s not that unusual to use half and half in cereal - you can still buy “cereal cream” here, and it’s 10% milk fat, the same as half and half. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/54 "2009-08-26T21:42:43Z")
A bottle of tequila. Not for me. A Summer sausage log. for the guys A really big cuke. for a salad. And lottery tickets. me. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/55 "2009-08-26T21:52:21Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > A bottle of tequila. Not for me. > A Summer sausage log. for the guys > A really big cuke. for a salad. > > And lottery tickets. me. Along those lines.. Cucumbers. For the salad. Forgotten by the SO earlier. Condoms. SO didn’t know we were out. Will almost always get a raised eyebrow. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/56 "2009-08-27T00:14:03Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > A bottle of tequila. Not for me. > A Summer sausage log. for the guys > A really big cuke. for a salad. > > And lottery tickets. me. Homer: Let me have one of those porno magazines, large box of condoms, a bottle of Old Harper, a couple of those panty shields, and some illegal fireworks, and one of those disposable enemas… eh, make it two. Later… Marge seeing Homer’s purchases: I don’t know what you’ve got planned for tonight, Homer, but count me out. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/57 "2009-08-27T00:46:10Z")
All this talk about milk makes me realize it’s been YEARS since I drank regular whole milk. I may fall off the wagon and buy some this weekend. On Thanksgiving day before the grocery store closed, I bought a frozen dinner (just to use a triple coupon before it expired), and a big bottle of fancy imported beer we wanted for a guest coming over that day. Those were two sad looking items, and would have looked even sadder if the frozen dinner had been turkey. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/58 "2009-08-27T01:02:45Z")
Wow–that many posts, and nobody mentioned [this](http://xkcd.com/236/)? That has either the best or worst mouseover joke I’ve seen in XKCD … “Fun game: find a combination of two items that most freaks out the cashier. Winner: pregnancy test and single coathanger.” ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/59 "2009-08-27T01:03:45Z")
Back in the audio cassette days I used to use q-tips and isopropyl alcohol to clean the heads in the tape deck. One Sunday afternoon I went up to the grocery to replenish my iso-alcohol supply and while there remembered I didn’t have anything to drink at home so I grabbed a big jug of fruit juice. Put it on the counter and got a really weird look from the cashier. Walking home I realized that she must have thought I was going to drink it. See, my state does not allow (drinking) alcohol sales on Sunday. A desperate alcoholic might try to drink isopropyl mixed with something. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/60 "2009-08-27T01:58:55Z")
This reminds me of a Davis Sedaris article in the New Yorker. He is shopping at a big box store with his brother-in-law and buys a large amount of condoms to give out at book signings. Realizing that they look like a gay couple, he asks his brother-in-law to find another item. The BIL comes back with a flat of strawberries, leading Sedaris to comment > [@](#): > > This somehow made us look even gayer. “After anal sex, we like shortcake!” read the cartoon bubble now floating over our heads. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735.md?page=4)