Totally OT, but damn property is cheap around there!
Several boxes of condoms, and Gatorade.
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.
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.
Did they win, or did somebody else find Fred Schneider?
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.
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.
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
Do you get a lot of heart disease in Alberta?
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.)
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… 
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…
What did you buy?
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.
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…
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.
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.
At breakfast I drink skim milk, but I also often get strawberry waffles with whipped cream.
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.)
Originally Posted by Silvorange
Black shirt and pants
Duct tape
Rope
Box cutter
Flashlight
Batteries
Diet Coke
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).