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To ask for tampons?

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HotCrossPun · 01/06/2013 18:30

I was doing some shopping in Tesco today.

Needed to buy some tampons and couldn't find them anywhere.

I went over to a shop assistant and said ''excuse me, can you tell me where the tampons are, please?''

She said excuse me? And looked at me like I was an alien. I repeated the question and she started marching towards a different aisle. I followed and she led me to them. As she was walking away there was an audible 'tsk' and she was shaking her head.

Is asking where the tampons are some kind of breach of supermarket etiquette? Should I have said 'feminine hygiene products?'

Or was the assistant just a bit strange?

OP posts:
quirrelquarrel · 02/06/2013 08:34

Not much to add except I love your name OP Grin

Montybojangles · 02/06/2013 08:39

I think I would of shouted after her "hang on a minute, I need you to show me where the condoms are..." she's a stupid woman, you're shopping, you needed tampons, what's the problem?

diddl · 02/06/2013 08:47

Why did she say "excuse me?"-was she taking the piss because you'd said it, OP??

I hate it when people say that due to not having heard something correctly.

If she'd said it back, I would have said "why, what have you done?".

Sorry, rant over.

She sounds weird!

Lweji · 02/06/2013 08:48

Even if you were a man, the more reason to help.
Men aren't often familiar with the locations of such things.

Whenever I see a man in front of the ladies' toiletries he's usually on the phone. :D

BabyMakesTheBoobiesGoLeaky · 02/06/2013 09:00

My neighbour works in Dunnes but its not the local one. She has been known to go into the local one,still in uniform to get her shopping and been asked where stuff is.

fuzzpig · 02/06/2013 09:05

If she was mortified at being asked for tampons, she should never work in Boots. DH has been asked for much more intimate items -and advice on their usage - without raising an eyebrow.

Cotton donkeys :o :o :o

PlasticNumber5 · 02/06/2013 11:18

I still remember being a teenager and getting a disgusted look from the man on the tills when I was buying tampons and pads. It really pissed me off. It's just a bodily function! Nobody acts weird when you're buying toilet paper and everyone knows what that gets used for.

Somanycatz · 02/06/2013 11:26

Any chance that she was having trouble hearing you OP? And then tutted at herself: must go get something for this ear ache, why can I never grasp what customers are saying, etc?

WafflyVersatile · 02/06/2013 11:27

I hate walking through town with toilet roll!

My brother used to do his supermarket shopping in a neighbouring town for fear of being seen with a shopping basket. Grin cant imagine how he would have coped with buying tampons. Probably would have had to cross borders for fear of being seen.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 02/06/2013 11:27

are you sure she worked there? Wink

squeakytoy · 02/06/2013 11:33

How can you not be able to find a whole section of store... Confused

Original poster
HotCrossPun · 02/06/2013 11:43

They were very elusive squeaky, normally they are next to waxing stuff, but they were on the end of the shampoo aisle.

Thanks quirrel I changed for Easter and then couldn't be bothered changing back Grin

OP posts:
diddl · 02/06/2013 13:02

Well it's not a "whole section" for everyone, is it?

In our supermarket there are a few on one shelf.

MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill · 02/06/2013 13:15

BabyMakes you mean there is more than one Dunnes in the world? But I thought it was special Sad

DingbatsFur · 02/06/2013 13:16

Are you sure it was a shop assistant you asked?

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