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AIBU to have laughed out loud in Tesco

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Sallystruthers · 01/12/2023 13:49

After putting the tree up last night I nipped to Tesco to grab a bottle of wine to toast the start of the festive season. Whilst in there I decided to grab something for breakfast…

Then I realised I was walking around with wine and sausages and other customers MUST be thinking “oooh she’s got a good weekend planned with her wine and sausages!” and chortled out loud to myself.

Wanted to explain myself to the cashier but felt the retelling of a mumsnet thread would not be of interest to them at the end of the shift.

Sometimes the best threads just come back to you at the most inopportune moments 😀

OP posts:
CustardySergeant · 02/12/2023 23:39

Frances0911 · 02/12/2023 21:43

I sometimes do a weekly shopping in the morning for a friend who can't get out. They always ask for two bottles of wine. I always hide the wine, by covering it up in the trolley with my carrier bag. Then if I don't do self service, when the cashier asks if I'd like the receipt, I always say yes please I'm doing someone's shopping and they need the receipt.

I do think it's a bit strange that I feel the need to go to this effort, and to feel self conscious for buying alcohol, but maybe I'm not the only one.

Why do you feel that you need to hide the wine and also make it clear that it isn't for you? Also, if you regard alcohol as something to be ashamed/embarrassed about, surely you think less of your friend who asks for the wine. Were you brought up to think of alcohol as bad and not something anyone should have?

SakuraMa · 03/12/2023 02:50

When I worked a supermarket checkout, once had a man come through with just a bottle of wine and a box of condoms, and I thought “Going to get her drunk first ?”
actually, my boyfriend at the time also came through my checkout once, and I was surprised that he was buying sanitary pads, but when I looked confused, he then said they were for his sister.

Tryingmybestadhd · 03/12/2023 10:36

A few years ago I went out to get a specific toy at Tesco that was sold out as I was there I got some brown parcel tape and hubby called to get bin bags , I bought some vodka as we where having friends and I wanted to try some cocktails so off I went to pay for vodka sticky tape and bin bags without a care in the world . The guy at the till scanned the stuff and kept smiling until he said “ was your husband up to no good “ and it clicked 😂😂😂😂. I replied “ can you imagine if you sold shovels too “

fairygalaxy · 03/12/2023 10:37

I don't understand
Is this a thread about a thread?

Tryingmybestadhd · 03/12/2023 10:51

You think people who buy alcohol are all alcoholic? We came home from holiday with 45 bottles of wine and quite a few spirits , I think we probably drink once a month if that lol . We just got as it better quality and cheaper abroad and I always like to take wine when going to someone’s house and off course to offer it when people come around and have a glass with them . Why all the judgment ?

NonPlayerCharacter · 03/12/2023 10:59

Tryingmybestadhd · 03/12/2023 10:51

You think people who buy alcohol are all alcoholic? We came home from holiday with 45 bottles of wine and quite a few spirits , I think we probably drink once a month if that lol . We just got as it better quality and cheaper abroad and I always like to take wine when going to someone’s house and off course to offer it when people come around and have a glass with them . Why all the judgment ?

I didn't know you were allowed to bring that much wine into the country. Where did you pack your clothes?

Janieforever · 03/12/2023 10:59

Frances0911 · 02/12/2023 21:43

I sometimes do a weekly shopping in the morning for a friend who can't get out. They always ask for two bottles of wine. I always hide the wine, by covering it up in the trolley with my carrier bag. Then if I don't do self service, when the cashier asks if I'd like the receipt, I always say yes please I'm doing someone's shopping and they need the receipt.

I do think it's a bit strange that I feel the need to go to this effort, and to feel self conscious for buying alcohol, but maybe I'm not the only one.

That’s very unusual, is there a back story where you feel buying alcohol is shameful? It’s a very normal thing to buy, like butter or eggs.

LittleMissSunshiner · 03/12/2023 11:03

fairygalaxy · 03/12/2023 10:37

I don't understand
Is this a thread about a thread?

Me either. Baffled.

zingally · 03/12/2023 11:38

I don't know anything about the thread you mention...

Frankly, this post reads like a rather drunken rambling.

I wouldn't think twice about seeing someone buy wine and sausages. I've seen much weirder.

ShinyPikachu · 03/12/2023 11:55

I once went through a checkout with a pregnancy test, tampons, wine and chocolate. The cashier didn't say anything but yes they were all for me. It was the tampons and wine that were needed in the end. Wink

The other day I was behind someone who was buying a clothes airer and at least 50 curly wurlys. They were very quick to say to the cashier they weren't for them.

Wallyandasnog · 03/12/2023 16:00

The have a penis model (like a mannequin not a human model) at my kids school. No carrots or bananas needed.

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 03/12/2023 16:16

We were taught on what I later learned were dildos. Multicoloured dildos. This led to the immortal phrase “I seem to have lost all my penises” from our teacher Mrs Wooding - in hindsight that makes it worse

nmmmchg · 03/12/2023 16:21

fairygalaxy · 03/12/2023 10:37

I don't understand
Is this a thread about a thread?

I think it's an in joke from somewhere else, not Mumsnet. Hilarious, not. Though I have found some of the other posts funny.

Fernticket · 03/12/2023 17:49

Sauvblanctime · 01/12/2023 13:52

Unless it’s cucumber and Vaseline

yabu

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

user1472151176 · 03/12/2023 18:47

I once bought senokot and toilet roll at the same time. Just those 2 items. Very unfortunate timing

NappiesAndBunFluff · 03/12/2023 20:36

This thread has reminded me that when we were at school our school nurse told us that she bought all the condoms for the sex ed demos in her local Tesco's in one shop and her husband refused to go with her because she'd always be asking him about his opinions on whether she should get novelty ones for her kit while the checkout staff raised eyebrows about just how many she was getting.

porridgeisbae · 03/12/2023 20:41

I once bought senokot and toilet roll at the same time. Just those 2 items. Very unfortunate timing

Best to be prepared. Smile

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 05/12/2023 20:04

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 03/12/2023 16:16

We were taught on what I later learned were dildos. Multicoloured dildos. This led to the immortal phrase “I seem to have lost all my penises” from our teacher Mrs Wooding - in hindsight that makes it worse

I once had a talk (I really didn’t want this talk!) when I was moving from a flat into another one with my then boyfriend and asked DM if she’d like to come and help as she said she was doing a charity shop run that weekend and could drop my charity bags off for me as a favour.

I was clearing my underwear drawer out and my basque and knickers (Agent Provocateur black and sort of the ivory colour silk and French lace) amongst other items - DM said “when do you get a chance to wear those, eh?!” forgetting I had a boyfriend who I was moving in with, then she saw my pink glittery Ann Summers vibrator and the Rampant Rabbit and said “ooh, ewww I didn’t know
you had dildos!”, I thought I’d hidden those away from the sexy lingerie but obviously not! I actually told her “at least I’m ensuring I’m getting my sexual needs seen to as well as with Connor (not his real name!)”. DM then went on a short mini rant about how using a dildo wasn’t good for you, but didn’t actually tell me how she knew so much about them!

Jacesmum1977 · 07/12/2023 09:59

My lt boyf and I when we first got together, we’re going to a hotel for a fun time and on the way, he stopped for red bull and lube.
Now that’s a good time!

AmazingBouncingFerret · 07/12/2023 10:09

I was in the local shop last night, buying sanitary towels and paracetamol for my daughter, I picked up a large family sized tiramisu as a treat pudding for after dinner. The woman behind the counter did the head tilt and said “try to have a good evening”

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