to not want the pharmacist to talk loudly about pregnancy tests

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when I'm trying to buy one discretely in the local GP?

Oh god that was meant to say anusol aisle! There isn't an aisle in my local supermarket dedicated to just, well, anuses.

I was wondering what else they'd sell in an anus aisle

Maybe??

I snorted my coffee at that

I never managed to uy a pregnancy test without thinking of a Victoria Wood sketch I saw years ago.
She talked of trying to choose one and being confused by the range - ones which had a little line if you were pregnant, ones which had two little lines if you were pregnant, ones which turned a different colour if you were pregnant, and one which shouted out "We know what you've been doing...." I never managed to pick up a test without that line running through my head and thinking that's what anyone who spotted me would think! Now all they have to do is eye up my expanding waist line of course!!

I bought a pregnancy test kit once when I had my 2 children with me - then aged 3 and nearly 5. Woman behind the counter (at the local chemist) commented that I would 'have my hands full if it was positive'! I was too gobsmacked to reply. They really should learn to be a little more discreet in such places - most people don't want their business commented on or shouted about in a shop.

When I was buying the test for DD1, and was a little, ahem, highly strung, the cashier asked me if I wanted a bag. Simple question, you'd think? Nope, poor lady got a full on sarcastic tirade about wanting to walk through a packed shopping centre, the week before christmas, waving my pee-stick for all to see. Ex-DP had to step in.

But seriously, obviously I wanted a bag for it!!

Reminds me of the time about 20 years ago, when I went in to a big Boots which sold DVDs, to buy the Lover's Guide DVD . All DVDs were behind the counter and you had to ask the assistant for what you wanted.

Blushing madly (I was about 20), I asked her. Of course, in classic comedy style, she called out to the other assistant who was situated about 3 miles away "WHAT SECTION WILL THE LOVER'S GUIDE DVD BE IN?". I did mutter something about her being a bit more discreet but she just looked at me with a "What's your problem?" expression, while the shop fitter a metre away smirked at me.

I can't believe cashiers comment on pregnancy tests!

When I was a cashier I never did when I worked in a supermarket!
A couple once took my "Have a Merry Christmas" completely the wrong way,as their shop included two 12 packs of durex. One customer though on Valentines Day,happily told me "these flowers are for the missus...the lube is for my present..."

Buying condoms once at Tesco,the cashier congratulated me on being "such a sensible girl,having safe sex". I was only 18 and mortified

You should have done what my dear late father did once when a bank clerk presuming: old man = deaf or dementia (or both) kept repeating in a very loud condescending voice that he had run into an unauthorised overdraft when he was querying charges with her

My dad leaned forward and said whilst pointing to the back of the long snaking queue 'Can you speak up a bit love, the woman right at the back didnt quite catch my balance, then'.

Yuk Alis he sounded a catch

I was speechless sudaname. I seemed to attract the odd ones to my till

Yabu for buying a pregnancy test from a pharmacy. Get them from the Supermarket they are so much cheaper!

To those considering putting pile cream under their eyes, this should be used sparingly, for puffy-eye emergencies - the cream is a steroid that thins the skin.

Fuck really? I smear it on my face!

Yes - sorry! Maybe I should put some on my arse :(

Damn it. Back to sudocrem for me. I cannot pay L'Oreal prices.

Buy the test online. Well I would as I live in a small town where everyone knows everyone else and there's some well known gossips about. Very shocked at the shop assistant's indiscretion.

Pile cream can also be used for piles, apparently.

I bought my pg test for DC1 from the independent pharmacy a couple of hundred yards from our old flat. The cashier said nowt, even though we knew each other by sight and were on in-the-street-nodding terms.

A fortnight or so later I staggered in, looking like the walking dead, with a prescription for anti-emetics. I sat, pale and faint, waiting for it to be processed. When she handed the pills over, she said (discreetly but with a congratulatory hint) "Worked out well, then?"

I used to work in Boots and told the woman buying a pregnancy test, "I hope you get the result you want." She said nothing and now I feel mortified as in my naivity I also assumed someone buying a test wanted a positive result.

Anus isle. LOL snigger