[QUOTE=Autolycus]
Ms. Pumpkin, I PMed you the link to the thread where it all began.
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Hey, I need it too!
I was prescribed Colace when I was on Oxycodone.
I think the junkie theory sounds valid. That’s why they started locking up the stuff with pseudoephedrine (or whatever).
[QUOTE=Sapo]
Where could someone possibly hide a suppository?
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Don’t say that sort of thing when I’m drinking a soda. Pepsi just came out of my nose! 
J.
[QUOTE=jharvey963]
Don’t say that sort of thing when I’m drinking a soda. Pepsi just came out of my nose!
J.
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No, that’s not where I’d put it…
When Walgreens decided to lock up the infant formula and hide the sudafed, is when I started buying those things elsewhere.
However, I’ve not yet figured out the “If I can’t see it, I’ll probably forget to buy it.” aspect of grocery shopping that leaves me razorbladeless, sudafedless and various other, I assume, high theft items.
I get migraines and my sinuses go absolutely haywire for 24 hours. Hence, my devotion to sudafed. I bet I haven’t actually bought any since they started locking/hiding them. The good news is, I’ve been such an avid consumer, I probably have a lifetime supply of them hidden in my house, oh wait, maybe meth heads read this…NO SUDAFED HERE!!!
If anyone wants to get over any embarassment to buying such items, it seems there is a crash course called “pregnancy” that will send you don’t every humiliating aisle known to man. Hemmorroids, stool softeners, breast pumps, vagisil, EXTRA SUPER HUGE maxi pads, pregnancy tests, lubrication, epsom salts, breast lotion and finally…CONDOMS!
[QUOTE=Auntbeast]
When Walgreens decided to lock up the infant formula and hide the sudafed, is when I started buying those things elsewhere.
However, I’ve not yet figured out the “If I can’t see it, I’ll probably forget to buy it.” aspect of grocery shopping that leaves me razorbladeless, sudafedless and various other, I assume, high theft items.
I get migraines and my sinuses go absolutely haywire for 24 hours. Hence, my devotion to sudafed. I bet I haven’t actually bought any since they started locking/hiding them. The good news is, I’ve been such an avid consumer, I probably have a lifetime supply of them hidden in my house, oh wait, maybe meth heads read this…NO SUDAFED HERE!!!
If anyone wants to get over any embarassment to buying such items, it seems there is a crash course called “pregnancy” that will send you don’t every humiliating aisle known to man. Hemmorroids, stool softeners, breast pumps, vagisil, EXTRA SUPER HUGE maxi pads, pregnancy tests, lubrication, epsom salts, breast lotion and finally…CONDOMS!
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Poor woman. Heh! Heh! Heh!
Yeah, I’ve never understood the concept of being too embarrassed to buy something “personal” in a drugstore. I mean, I’ve never had a clerk react to any of my purchases, however gynecological and/or gastrointestinal, with anything but the most blase indifference. In any case, wouldn’t it be a hell of a lot more embarrassing to be caught shoplifting such an item than to be seen buying it?
In fact, I would kind of enjoy seeing what the reaction would be on the hypothetical future day when I put the wrinkle cream, the gray-brightening shampoo, the condoms and the anal lube on the counter together and say “Ring 'em up”. 
[QUOTE=Kimstu]
Yeah, I’ve never understood the concept of being too embarrassed to buy something “personal” in a drugstore. I mean, I’ve never had a clerk react to any of my purchases, however gynecological and/or gastrointestinal, with anything but the most blase indifference. In any case, wouldn’t it be a hell of a lot more embarrassing to be caught shoplifting such an item than to be seen buying it?
In fact, I would kind of enjoy seeing what the reaction would be on the hypothetical future day when I put the wrinkle cream, the gray-brightening shampoo, the condoms and the anal lube on the counter together and say “Ring 'em up”. 
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It has to be something truly unique for us to even remember. Like the guy who bought two 30pks of beer, 3 different types of enemas(jumbo, a regular 3-pk., and a mineral oil kind), 2 kinds of lube(one flavored, one not), condoms, and bubble gum.
[QUOTE=WhyNot]
Narcotics make you constipated. Junkies tend to not have ready cash to pay for OTC meds, but the one thing they all need enough to steal are stool softeners.
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Yeah. Gotta keep the stool softeners away from the hardened criminals.
[QUOTE=Ms. Pumpkin]
It has to be something truly unique for us to even remember. Like the guy who bought two 30pks of beer, 3 different types of enemas(jumbo, a regular 3-pk., and a mineral oil kind), 2 kinds of lube(one flavored, one not), condoms, and bubble gum.
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Sounds like someone was planning a “play” party.
An ex-girlfriend who used to work in a supermarket called a bottle of wine, flowers, and condoms the “Tonight’s the Night Special”, almost always bought by men. If it was just flowers (sometimes accompanied by chocolates), without the other stuff—and it was not Valentine’s Day—it was a safe bet that he’d screwed up. Otherwise, if it was an anniversary or something, condoms, wine, or both would probably be in there too.
[QUOTE=Rigamarole]
Really? That makes a lot of sense because the narcotics I’m taking now (that I’m prescribed to) are painkillers/opiates, and that’s the reason I need these meds. I just wasn’t making the connection between my opiates and THEIR (the junkies’) opiates. WhyNot, you get a gold star!
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Gah, I was on hydrocodone for a while prior to back surgery. I was pretty immobile- bad for regularity, on hydrocodone-causes constipation, plus it just flat hurt to have to sit on the toilet because of my back.
But nothing prepared me for the pain brought about by the combination. And I couldn’t even get to the store to buy stool softeners, so I had the added humiliation of having to ask someone to do it for me.
If passing a grapefruit* sounds like a pleasant way to spend your morning, you won’t need stool softeners. Otherwise, stock up.
*Slight exaggeration, but I swear that’s what it felt like. Maybe a softball.
Iremember ringing up a guy who was buying nothing but a cantaloupe and a home enema. All I could think was, “Which one is the impulse buy?”