Does anyone else feel embarrassed buying.....

[GirlOnIt]

Condoms? I know it's silly, I'm a grown up with a child but still I feel embarrassed.
Called to the supermarket this morning for a few things, Dp reminded me needed some. Thought fine I don't need much will do to self serve save my embarrassment. Picked up a bottle of wine so of course they have to authorise it and the guy wanted to check id. Fair enough but he looks in the bag I've already packed and all I've got in there is condoms and squirty cream (not for that, I just really fancied a hot chocolate with cream).

I'm sure he was smirking and then I got flustered because I couldn't get my drivers licence out of my purse and I could feel myself blushing

I got home and told Dp I'm not buying them anymore, he thinks it's hilarious but suspiciously always seems to forget to pick them up himself.

Unfortunately I work in a secondary school that is very local to me, so I’m always seeing pupils in the park, doctors, supermarket and chemist etc. It can get very embarrassing.

Yeah small town here, our local sainsburys is like some kind of social club. Tampons fine, condoms I don't need but maybe. Pregnancy test definitely not 😂😂😂

Weirdly I find buying condoms embarrassing but will happily walk down the road with an Ann Summers bag

I can buy most cringe worthy items no problem but Pregnancy tests I go to another town where nobody knows me and I think I'd struggle with haemorrhoid cream no matter where I was

I feel like an imposter claiming to be an adult

Uh I get so embarrassed buying lube. Last week I thought I was being stealthy by waiting til the aisle was quiet then going in for a swift snatch of some durex tingly. Was going to use the self scanner and bury it deep in the bottom of my carrier bag...
Unfortunately my clumsy claws meant instead of a stealthy snatch I ended up swiping 4 bottles and flinging them across the aisle and onto the perpendicular walkway. Mortifying.

So I scrabbled about and threw all the bottles into my bag and now I have quite a plentiful stash of tingly lube.

Luckily I wasn't chosen for a random service check at the self checkout tills 😬

I’m a teacher and bumped into 3 different parents and pupils when all I had on my basket was thrush cream and cystitis stuff.

I've lost some lube somewhere in the house and terrified about one of the kids finding it at a bad moment... or worse putting it in there bag for school/childcare

Like "I found this moisturiser behind the sofa/laundry hamper/ fridge"
Fml
Also it is not behind the sofa, the laundry hamper or the fridge I have checked
I think I wouldn't mind so much if I wasn't (fairly recently) single

I can imagine the look the teacher would give me I don't blame her
Worse it's a religious school

Yeah mummy's gonna burn in hell

kalefire that’s awesomely awful

I’ve now converted to coconut oil - it’s a great moisturiser, tastes nice, and it’s good for you so you can feel virtuous when you buy it instead of embarrassed . Disclaimer - not to be used in conjunction with condoms obvs.

@ChesterGreySideboard

I swear I always get the side eye buying cranberry juice. No I don't have cystitis this time I just quite like the taste!

I get really embarrassed and shifty buying pregnancy tests and yes I know I can buy them discreetly and much more cheaply online but sometimes you just can’t wait for next day delivery ya know!

Guaranteed I’ll bump into someone that I know. It’s such a stealthy operation.

‘Not really, though I usually just put them in the delivery order.’

What it they were substituted?

You forgot the Nutella, OP .

I hate it too. Got some from wilko last week (all durex half price, made sense).. only the barcode didnt work so the woman on the checkout rang her bell for assistance.. when the other worker was near the back of the queue she starts waving them in the air "Sally can you grab me a barcode for these please".. i could feel my face getting redder and redder.

Ooooooh RagingWhoreBag I have some coconut oil in the cupboard. When my extensive stash of tingly lube is used up I may make the switch!

The C card scheme (free condoms) is a great scheme nationwide to encourage people to use condoms. It doesn't matter whether people can afford them or not, it's about a non judgmental straightforward way of increasing safe sex and preventing unwanted pregnancy, both of which cost the NHS and other services much more than the provision of condoms.

Coconut is great (not around condoms though). I use it for alsorts including intensive conditioner, keeps my bleached hair looking really healthy.
A guy I know uses it when he wanks. Swears by it.

I'd have paid money to see both of your faces... wonder how the convo went when he got home.... how was your day love? (Partner/parent) oh it was the same old apart from a women who only had squirt cream wine and condoms in her bag.. Hahaha!!

Glad I'm not the only one who feels .

The squirty cream was definitely worth the embarrassment, had a yummy hot chocolate. The condoms, not so much. Dp is already fast asleep on me

He was only young TheCrazyDogLady. I'd say late teens early twenty's.
Dp said he'll probably be telling all his mates in the pub about it tonight.

AMAZON PRIME 👍😁

Omg I just read it properly. Wine, condoms and squirty cream. AMAZING 🤣🤣🤣

Demented, well you could give it a whirl just to say you've done it! Must admit I've rarely brought them, and if I did need them regularly, I'd be working out the best way of going about it. Whoever mentioned xxxxl size condoms made me feel quite queasy...

Looking forward to giving the coconut oil a try and having luscious pubes in the near future !

Also whilst enduring an evening at a relative my mind wandered back to this thread, and I thought about the most embarrassing purchase possible if you were alone that is. Not just 1 cucumber, lube, gloves, condoms, but say about 20 of each! Kept being asked what I was laughing at! I couldn't possibly say...

I can sympathise - many years ago I picked up a packet of condoms and strawberry flavoured lube in Tesco. While I was there thought I might as well grab 1 or 2 other bits. Hadn't really planned to so didn't have a basket.

Ran into my old driving instructor in the veg aisle and was literally as I stood there chatting to him that I realised I was clutching the aforementioned items along with a cucumber 🥒

Still not over it 11 years later 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

If I was serving and someone had condoms and squirt cream id be hard pressed not to grin. And maybe asked if you had anything nice planned for the weekend

Oh dear Snailer, you will never get over it! Did he blush?