# What purchases have you made that COULD have caused comment **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692 "2004-04-07T04:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/21 "2004-04-07T21:56:40Z")
From my post in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249530). _I’m #27 - I don’t know how to link to specific posts. Yet_ …Heh. Went shopping for the ‘monthly stuff’ the other day, and I knew this was going to be a bad one. I got to the register with a large box of Super, a large box of Super Plus, a box of MaxiPads, a bottle of Advil, a box of personal wipes, a one-pound bar of chocolate (I SAID it was gonna be a bad one - I never buy chocolate anymore), and an issue of Cosmo. And evidently one hell of a scowl on my face. The cashier looks at me, and says, “Aw cheer up! Life can’t be THAT bad!” Then looks at the conveyor belt. I’ve never seen a teenage boy blush and stammer like that… ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/22 "2004-04-07T22:35:04Z")
I got some odd looks the time I bought a chocolate bar (for my girlfriend), a flower (for my girlfriend), and some Vaseline(for my dad, skin condition) at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![RindaRinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RindaRinda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RindaRinda)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/23 "2004-04-07T23:18:46Z")
It was after final exams in university, I hadn’t done laundry in ages and I needed to relax. So, I went to the supermarket around 1 AM and bought a package of underwear and a 6-pack of beer. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/24 "2004-04-08T02:03:29Z")
Well, you’d probably have to appreciate my local grocery store’s clientele (Montrose Kroger in Houston). One night I had a leather chap in front of me (you know, block leather chaps, no shirt - just tack, combat boots and a leather ballcap). All he was buying was a bunch of bananas and a dozen roses. Big date, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/25 "2004-04-08T02:34:22Z")
A dozen tubs of vaseline, and a dozen boxes of paraffin wax. It was for a soils research project, but I worry about the cashier who didn’t even raise an eyebrow. Some people have no imagination! ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/26 "2004-04-08T02:54:33Z")
Steel wool and an issue of “Perfect 10”. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/27 "2004-04-08T03:45:52Z")
Vodka, Bloody Mary Mix, Condoms, Lube and Cigarettes. At midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/28 "2004-04-08T03:49:22Z")
And there was that other time I went through the checkout with a tear-stained face, my not-yet-husband and two different brands of pregnancy tests, neither one of us saying a word until the checkout guy asked how we were doing. I answered, “What do YOU think?” ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/29 "2004-04-08T04:57:01Z")
Buncha friends and I were having a to-do and realized at the last minute that we were missing an ingredient. So we sent one of our number to the store to get it. After he had left, we all realized that we had just sent a very attractive, effeminate man out to the grocery store to buy nothing but a large cucumber. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/30 "2004-04-08T05:49:16Z")
Black Boy. Actually, it wasn’t so much the purchase of the book “Black Boy (American Hunger)”, the autobiography of African-American author Richard Wright which I was reading for my English class (IMHO it’s a very good book, by the way). It was the fact that I wanted to remember to pick it up from the school bookstore, so I wrote “Buy Black Boy” in pen on the back of my hand. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Scratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Chicken\_Scratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Scratch)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/31 "2004-04-08T12:11:49Z")
Before going on vacation, I bought condoms & Immodium. I’m embarrassed to say, I actually threw in some impulse items (magazine, candy, etc.) so my purchases wouldn’t be so glaringly obvious. I went shopping with my cousin once, and all she bought was a pregnancy test and a box of maxi-pads. The clerk gave her a funny look, and my cousin said, “well, it’s either one or the other.” ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/32 "2004-04-08T12:47:11Z")
A pediatric enema syringe, dish soap, and a big bottle of Elmer’s glue. I was putting ballast on the tracks of my model railroad. ---
**Author:** ![dil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@dil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dil)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692/33 "2004-04-08T14:28:44Z")
I recently bought the following at Osco: Stool softener (bottle of pills) Large canister of Metamucil Underwater disposable camera We were going on vacation! Woo! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-purchases-have-you-made-that-could-have-caused-comment/238692.md?page=1)