To think it was unnecessary for my Tesco man to discuss my tampons on my doorstep?

[poopscoop]

Mrs Poop: 'Morning, how are you?'

Mr Tesco ' Morning, just the one substution today, sper plus tampons instead of super plus extra, is that ok?'

Mrs Poop ' oh err, yes thats fine '

Now I know these are a fact of life, but really, did he have to say that? Why not just say, 'just the one substitution' and let me deal with it?

So AIBU or nay?

I still maintain there are ways and means of informing the customer of the substitutions though.

All the other chaps just say that there are some substitutions, this is the first time they have been vocal about it.

It was the fact he mentioned it loudly and the size. Do I really want my neighbs to know that I use super plus extra .

I did say it was a fact of life, but really still believe there is no need to tell the village about my monthlys

I am shocked by this.

How can super plus tampons poosibly be a substitute for super plus extra tampons?

Surely if you wanted a certain size, you want that size, not any other.

FWIW, I bet he was more embarrassed than you were.

Blimey I would be thinking that my neighbours thought I had a huge foofoo and that would be embarrassing!

If you have an issue with stuff like this go and buy it from the chemist - but I think that the guy was probably dying inside and put his biggest bravest voice on especially to get him through.

i'm rotfpmsl at this, i too would have died if that had been me. i'm too scared to have my shopping delivered for thoes verry reasons, as it is i insist on going shopping at 10pm on a friday night so no one except the checkout person can see what i buy!

"How can super plus tampons poosibly be a substitute for super plus extra tampons?"

hahaha
well yeah, what's she going to say to him?
"no, they're just not big enough"!

PMSL!! and for you OP

I am a coward, i will NOT order sanitary wear in a home delivery [prude emoticon]

though I think I might have ordered a whole crate full of maternity towels once when i was about to give birth.....

some of you ladies have such Victorian attitudes towards normal bodily functions

I do admit to not going to the "basket checkout" at Tescos recently (as the kind supervisor told me I should do as I did not have much in my basket).

I had chosen the checkout carefully as there was a slightly older lady on the till who was unlikely to be embarrassed about my buying anti-piles cream.

Not the thing that I want a spotty youth scanning through the till.

I told the supervisor that there were some items of shopping that I did not really want to share with a teenager.

me too Mme L - choose the checkout operator carefully depending on what you are buying

A fair number of my ex-pupils work in the local tesco and sainsburys. Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it

And if he had whispered it, MNers would be baying for blood (no pun intender) saying periods are nothing to be ashamed of and he was obviosly a mysogenist

it wouldnt worry me at all

it is better than suddenly bleeding all over the floor in sainsburys as happened to me once

am i the only one who sometimes deliberately chooses who is on the checkout by how embarrassed they will be from the contents of my basket?

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See if you had a mooncup you wouldn't have this problem.

I recall once buying "The Joy of Sex" for DH as a Valentines, or whatever, present.

I noticed that there was what might once have been called a 'callow youth' on the checkout at Waterstones.

I quailed.

Then I rallied and thought: Buggerit!! I am NOT going to be embarrassed by buying a - frankly nowadays quite plodding - sex guide just because the checkout person is a Young Male.

So I strutted up. Brazen.

He took the book from me - and blushed from his neck to the roots of his hair.

pmsl at you BS

Was the book worth the shame?