Nosy store employees make the sores on my genitals weep.
Thank you for that Mangetout.
And THIS is exactly why when my ex went to buy condoms he went ALONE. The last thing either of us wanted was a cashier making comments about said items. (I could see one going off on him for molestation or something, since I look considerably younger than I am, and he was a good bit older than me.)
The Nair you heat up in the microwave and roll on–so much less mess! And it used to taste good, too (much like Nad’s), but they’ve changed the formula and made it all perfumey–blecch! 
I’ve never had any judgemental comments from any cashier, but I did have one look at a product I was buying and ask “Is this any good?”
Well, no, actually it’s crap, but I have more money than God and I have to spend it on something. :rolleyes:
In reality, I had no idea - I was trying it for the first time, and I told her so.
See, that one’s not so bad, FCM. I’ve had customers ask me that while I was waiting on them: “Is this Dances with Fishes movie any good? I’m getting it for my brothers bar mitzvah.”
A: It isn’t for me; I’m buying it for a “friend”. (remember to make that annoying “quote” gesture)
A: I don’t actually have any firm plans at present, perhaps you could suggest something?
dantheman - Yeah, I know it wasn’t that bad, but it struck me as odd. Obviously I felt the product had some value since I was buying it. But it might have been her way of expressing “I need to remember this - I think it’s something I’d like to buy myself.” I’m not particularly confrontational with strangers, so chances are if someone made a rude comment about what I was buying, I’d probably just look at them and not say anything. Scathing silence, you know.
I went into a nation wide chain book store once and asked if they had the book, “And the Band Played On.” (It’s a history of the AIDS epidemic.)
The clerk said, “Isn’t that a homosexual book?”
Me, "Well its about AIDS . . . "
Clerk (interrupting), “We don’t sell those kinds of books here; we aren’t that kind of store.”
Apparently she thought it was a how-to manual or something.
I was so stunned that I couldn’t even think of something witty to say. I’m sure they had the book, but I wasn’t going to buy it from them at that point.
I’m sorry, but that behavior should be reported, for the rudeness which she obviously wasn’t trained to do, the attitude she gave your husband, and the homophobia you say might be behind her words. That store could lose customers over this twat - report the bitch.
Esprix
FTR, Steve Martin did a lot more than 20 in that movie, count them some time.
My feeling is that if they’re going to be that rude to you, you might as well blow them out of the water. If it wasn’t a good bet that the police would be called, I’d probobly respond “well, I need LUBRICATION to FUCK little CHILDREN up the ASS!”
That outta shut them up.
I find it best to just say “None of your fucking business” in a very soft voice. Followed by “Boy, am I gonna have fun on the Internet tonight.”
Quite possibly there’s an innocent, in fact downright boring explanation. For instance, she was helping to cater a church supper or something, and someone suddenly realized that no one had thought of gravy. Emergency Grocery Run time.
Yesterday another mom and I went shopping for the 17th of May (national holiday) celebration at my older son’s school (as revealed in another thread). Our shopping list looked like so:
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[li]220 hot dogs[/li][li]144 rolls (12 12-packs) [/li][li]100 lomper (Norwegian tortilla clones, for wrapping hot-dogs)[/li][li]3 big squeeze bottles of ketchup[/li][li]2 big squeeze bottles of mustard [/li][li]120 popsicles[/li][li]5 cases of 1/2 liter soda bottles[/li][/ul] Now, in our case, the cashier didn’t ask any questions, but some of the other customers sure looked at us funny…
As revenge, next time buy some mint flavoured condoms and ask the checkout person if they taste of peppermint or spearmint, or ask them which lube they find lasts longest, or ask if they can really feel the ribs on the ribbed condoms… etc.
Good God, why don’t any of you people SAY SOMETHING instead of being a bunch of passive-aggressive bitches? If a cashier dared say anything othe nature of the comment in the OP, I guarantee I’d ask for the manager and get her in trouble. Ditto for the C-word who gave attitude over the Randy Shilts book.
Criminy, stick up for yourselves, you doormats! One does not take crap from the help.
A: Oh… well, it was an impulse buy, actually. I’m very… heh heh… IMPULSIVE… Whoo hoooooo!"
I like to head off the inquiries by catching them off guard. I ask if they have straws when I’m buying a gallon of anti-freeze. That sort of thing.
It’s passed down from my mom who used to be a wise ass cashier. She would’ve said to the gravy lady, “Roasting a Volvo?”
Never, “Why are you buying that?” Just joking. I hope she didn’t ever offend any of you.
I once had my four-month old baby in the cart when I bought a pregnancy test. It was actually kind of sweet…the cashier obviously summed up the situation–I must have looked shell-shocked–in a glance and simply said, “Oh, honey. Good luck.”
I heard a bit by Andrew “Dice” Clay that was quite similar to the OP. He was talking about going into a pharmacy and buying the family-size container of Vaseline.
“What do you need such a big container of Vaseline for?”
“My wife likes it in the shitter.”
(Paraphrased from Third Rock From the Sun)
Ribbed - for her pleasure. I turned it inside out.
Another good response (seriously) is “Why would you want to know that?” Makes them think a little bit. I once told this to a clerk in a health food store. He stammered a little and offered a lame excuse about wanting to know what the item was useful for. I told him that he should look it up in any one of the many books & brochures he had around the place instead of asking personal questions of his customers.
As far as the asking if you “found everything” when you leave a store, sometimes that really does generate sales. I’ve been on the verge of leaving and had a salesperson tell me that yes, indeed they did have something that I just hadn’t been able to locate.
Asking “is that everything?” is because sometimes a customer will put part of their order on the counter and go back to get something else they could not carry at the same time. Although if the customer already has her wallet out, that’s an indicator that she’s done shopping!