# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/81 "2009-08-27T16:26:30Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > 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) Totally OT, but _damn_ property is cheap around there! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/82 "2009-08-27T16:54:03Z")
Several boxes of condoms, and Gatorade. ---
**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 27, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/83 "2009-08-27T18:07:33Z")
Kind of related but some friends of mine living in Athens Georgia used to play this game where they’d go to the grocery store, split up and had 15 minutes to find the oddest item in the store and bring it to the front and buy it. One night, several years ago they went to go play. One friend returned to the front with Peter Buck from r.e.m. and had affixed a price tag to him. ---
**Author:** ![kathmandu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kathmandu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kathmandu)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/84 "2009-08-27T18:25:14Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Half and half is a minimum of 10.5, and as high as 18% butterfat. it is extremely unusual for people to pour it on cereal. Not to belabour the minor, and somewhat uninteresting, point, but I think it depends where you live. Here, in Alberta, cereal cream is 5-10% bf, half-and-half is 10%, coffee cream is 18%, and whipping cream is at least 32%. It’s not extremely unusual for people to pour “cereal cream” on cereal, hence the marketing of it as “cereal cream”. I don’t do it myself, but I do know people who do. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/85 "2009-08-27T18:34:43Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Kind of related but some friends of mine living in Athens Georgia used to play this game where they’d go to the grocery store, split up and had 15 minutes to find the oddest item in the store and bring it to the front and buy it. > > One night, several years ago they went to go play. > One friend returned to the front with Peter Buck from r.e.m. and had affixed a price tag to him. Did they win, or did somebody else find Fred Schneider? ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/86 "2009-08-27T18:41:56Z")
Charcoal (for the BBQ) and hairgel. Why this was so weird: it was in the middle of a blizzard and my head was clean-shaven. I had promised the kids we’d have a cookout, regardless of the weather. My daughter stayed in the car to watch the snow (it was really coming down in huge clumped flakes), but informed me she needed hairgel as I got out of the car. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/87 "2009-08-27T18:48:16Z")
I have a hard time finding certain products and so I will buy them at a store too far to frequent, so I will buy a lot. Eight boxes of Puffed Rice cereal, for example, or the same number of tapioca pudding. And people always comment. Never in the same way, so I don’t have a prepared answer. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/88 "2009-08-27T20:21:24Z")
I was shopping for a friend’s birthday once so I went to boarders to buy him a movie. The wife wandered off and came back with a kid’s book for her pre-school class, and then i saw a book on knot tying (I had been wanting to learn never being much of a boyscout). So I’b at the checkout counter and the woman rings up: A kids book A book on knot tying A DVD of Saw ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/89 "2009-08-27T20:43:27Z")
> [@kathmandu](#): > > Not to belabour the minor, and somewhat uninteresting, point, but I think it depends where you live. Here, in Alberta, cereal cream is 5-10% bf, half-and-half is 10%, coffee cream is 18%, and whipping cream is at least 32%. It’s not extremely unusual for people to pour “cereal cream” on cereal, hence the marketing of it as “cereal cream”. I don’t do it myself, but I do know people who do. Do you get a lot of heart disease in Alberta? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/90 "2009-08-28T21:31:26Z")
I once had to purchase Milk of Magnesia and Kaopectate at the same time. The former was for my partner, the latter was for my cat. And if you want to make a huge smelly mess, try administering Kaopectate to a 27-lb. cat with an intestinal virus. (My partner’s problem was much less messy.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/91 "2009-08-29T00:32:56Z")
My boyfriend and I, in a grocery store around 11:00 on a Friday or Saturday night, bought: strawberries a can of whipped cream condoms The checkout clerk couldn’t stop grinning. I know what you’re thinking… how scandalous! \*Canned \*whipped cream! If you can’t make it from scratch (preferably with a couple of shots of Grand Marnier, yum!), at least opt for a tub of Cool Whip, jeesh… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WishIHadACoolName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WishIHadACoolName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WishIHadACoolName)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/92 "2009-08-30T12:12:53Z")
New apartment, new relationship. Twice a month, I’d stop at Walmart and pick up the econo-box of condoms and 2 dozen plastic hangers. Same purchase every other week… ---
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/93 "2009-08-30T13:17:41Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > 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. What did you buy? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/94 "2009-08-30T16:07:50Z")
My husband has this thing for beef jerky and Froot Loops. I don’t understand it so I can’t explain it. I prefer not to enter a grocery store with him. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/95 "2009-08-30T16:43:55Z")
One time, a friend and I were in charge of buying beer for a party. Went to the local grocery store (this was in NC), got a shit ton of beer, go to the self-check out line, and who comes to check our IDs but one of my students. But my favorite: I was in a Target, and the guy in line in front of me had dozens of Star Wars action figures. As he’s dumping them onto the conveyor belt, he looks back at me and says, “They’re on sale!” as if I asked for an explanation and as if that was an explanation. Though I was kind of charmed the other day by this hip-hoppy guy in his mid 20s buying Pull-ups and fish sticks… ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/96 "2009-08-30T17:06:06Z")
I’m shameless, and always have been, so when a friend was too embarrassed, I agreed to help him out. One of those already-roasted-and-hot whole chickens from the deli (for my dinner) and a big thing of Astroglide (for him). It’s the only time I’ve ever seen a clerk do a double take. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/97 "2009-08-30T19:12:58Z")
A couple of years ago, my husband had to have surgery to have a couple of anal polyps removed. His doctor gave me a list of stuff to pick up on the way home from the hospital- a couple different types of laxative and a stool softener (all OTC). I decided as long as I was at the grocery store I’d pick up a bottle of wine. Hubby hadn’t eaten anything for close to 24 hours and was craving a grilled cheese sandwich, so I picked up cheese, bread, and butter. So, I’m checking out with laxatives, stool softeners, wine, bread, butter, and cheese. I got an odd look from the cashier, who probably thought I was an alcoholic bulimic. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/98 "2009-08-30T19:59:58Z")
> [@imfloating](#): > > A Very overwight woman buying 2% milk and chocolate syrup. At breakfast I drink skim milk, but I also often get strawberry waffles with whipped cream. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/99 "2009-08-30T21:12:21Z")
On the milk thing, I usually drink vanilla soy milk or 2% milk (depends on what I’m doing or feel like drinking). I’ve always found whole milk to have an odd taste to it, and skim milk just tastes watery. I think not too long ago, I was at the BX shopping for condoms, KY, and rubber gloves (I decided I didn’t want my hands smelly nasty after waiting a week to wash dishes. The KY and the condoms were for what one normally uses KY and condoms for.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735/100 "2009-08-31T03:20:01Z")
**Originally Posted by Silvorange** _Black shirt and pants Duct tape Rope Box cutter Flashlight Batteries Diet Coke_ > [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > You might as well throw condoms in that list. Maybe a ski mask too. Don’t forget the rubber gloves… and panty hose. You can’t go wrong buying panty hose when looking to make things uncomfortable (as a dude anyways). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-raising-purchase-combinations/507735.md?page=6)