Guys who act embarrassed when they're buying tampons for their significant other: Classic or Dud?

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I just ran into this at CVS. the guy in front of me was buying a package of tampons for, i assume, his girlfriend or at least some female he knows. yet not only was he nervous and awkward and bumbling about having to buy this feminine product, he apparently felt the need to compensate so he surrounded the package with a bunch of manly things like razors and shaving cream and beef jerkey. and when he got to the counter he sort of shrugged at the check-out girl as if he didn't even know how they got in with all his stuff.

what's up with this? i've bought tampons for girlfriends before and have never felt as though i needed to be embarrassed about it. NO ONE THINKS YOU'RE BUYING THEM FOR YOURSELF. Relax.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I've always thought it was stupid.

Girls who won't buy condoms (every girl I've ever dated): Classic or Dud?

― Stoner Guy, Monday, 20 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

It's embarrasing enough shopping for anything.

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Haha he was totally buying those for himself. "I like my tampons with BEEF JERKEY!"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah, the condom thing has always baffled me as well. with both sexes. why would you even for a second want to feel embarrassed about that? if anything, you should be holding the condoms over your head screaming, "Yes! I am buying condoms! For sex!"

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

"i like my tampons w/ PICANTE SAUCE"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

xpost: CUZ SEX IS EMBARRASSING???

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

what's dan's red-wings story again?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

i've bought condoms before! but it was just wishful thinking.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

xpost: CUZ SEX IS EMBARRASSING???
-- Another Allnighter, June 20th, 2005.

sure, this may be true for some people. but don't you think most stereotypical guys would love to broadcast the fact that they're about to sleep with someone? even to perfect strangers? take your average man on the street and i'll bet you he's about ready to scream it at the top of his lungs.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Not to the sweet little old chinese woman at the drugstore, no not really.

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I get horribly embarassed buying tampons or condoms. I have a very strong sense of shame.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

C on Ts is oddly easier to do than buy condoms.

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

But Cathy, where's the shame in sex or menstruation?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Classic is when you just throw in one of those big family packs of condoms with the rest of your shop at the supermarket.

As I remember [/sob].

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

buying something like Preparation H = shame. condoms = not so much. i'd rather be caught buying an econo-sized box of ultra-small condoms than something like that.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Hemmorhoids go away, but small dicks stay that way, dude.

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

The best = buying diapers and condoms at the same time.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

i thought this was just some gag cooked up by the sitcom people that didn't actually happen in real life.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 20 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

If a guy wants to look really sheepish buying something, try a pregnancy test, or maybe Monistat 7.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind buying tampons. Sometimes I do a mock-'guy who acts embarrassed when buying tampons' thing and blurt out "They're not for me," which is really low wit I know.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

the only time i did this, a woman told me i was "a good man"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I've bought tampons, pregnancy tests, thrush remedies, whatever. None of it was as embarrassing as buying porn mags when I was 17.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

M., it's completely irrational shame. But sometimes it makes my face go all red and I just want to get out of the shop really quickly.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I've bought tampons, pregnancy tests, thrush remedies, whatever. None of it was as embarrassing as buying porn mags when I was 17.

PORN MAGS DO NOT GO IN THE VAGINA, DUDE!!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone really have a problem with buying tampons?? It's not like anyone assumes you have a vagina.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

PORN MAGS FEATURE A LOT OF VAGINA, DAN!!!!!!

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

It's not like anyone assumes you have a vagina.

That's really comforting to Cathy, Spencer.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I always assumed that look of dread men get was from fully expecting that they'd go home and be told they were the wrong kind.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone really have a problem with buying tampons?? It's not like anyone assumes you have a vagina.
-- Spencer Chow, June 20th, 2005.

right, this was my initial point. i wonder if some guys begin to worry that everyone in the store suspects that they're just posing as a man but are, in fact, a menstuating woman.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I think the implication is that you are pussywhipped by a chick too ugly to be seen in public, too lazy to buy her own damn tampons.

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I always assumed that look of dread men get was from fully expecting that they'd go home and be told they were the wrong kind.

DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING

"The Hell??? Why did you buy gargatuan-sized Red Tide(TM) Pussy Pads? I use micro-Always! BACK TO THE STORE, TESTICLE-PANTS."

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

(Okay, I am blaming that last post on my skipped lunch and the large chai I just drank.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

RED TIDE

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I think the implication is that you are pussywhipped by a chick too ugly to be seen in public, too lazy to buy her own damn tampons.

Or that you're racing back home to a scene reminiscent of Carrie.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

The worst is buying laxitive and condoms togerther (and gum!).

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

way more embarrasing to buy GasX and laxitives than either condoms or tampons/pads. although it is a little disconcerting to stand around looking at the varieties of condoms trying to decide which is best. I always feel like i shouldnt be hanging around there.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I reckon buying this would be fairly embarrassing. I wonder why they don't make it any more?

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I always wind up with a random 8-year-old staring at me while I squint at the condom boxes.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

LYSOL DOUCHE

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Is it the 8-year-old from Adam's wedding pictures?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

moses, moses!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I have never been embarrassed by buying condoms, even the time it was 4 am, we were both flushed and clearly in a hurry and the ONLY thing we were buying was condoms - and when the checkout guy raised his eyebrows, my friend said "just a bit of breakfast."

Okay, that time I was a little. But no guy I know has ever been embarrassed by buying tampons.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

(PS: This one's for you, Tad.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

moral of the story to which dan linked: don't be embarrassed to buy yer girly some tampons OR THAT MAY HAPPEN TO YOU.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I went to art schoo, right and we had this mini sculpture exercise where we filled condoms with plaster of paris and laid them over each other to make cornerless forms (we peeled the condoms off after the plaster had set leaving senssssual white shapes). Anyway, the professor, who was a strange old cat who had a thick Long Island accent thought that, as budding artists, we shoul be 'wearing colorful clothing' and delighted in informing us that he was going to the woods with his mate (who was a woman, appparently.), told us that we could get condoms from health services and use them because they were free and unlubricated as nesssessssscccitated by the project. So I go to health services at noon, when there are 12, 20 kids with late autumn diseases and malnourishment and ask in a very loud voice,

"DO YOU HAVE ANY CONDOMS?"

And the kids giggle and struggle to keep a straight face and the nurse looks around and gets oh-so flustered.

'No. No, I'm afraid not.'

"SO YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CONDOMS FOR ME THEN???"

"No."

"DAMN! NOW I GOTTA GO TO THE DRUG STORE AND GET CONDOMS! FUCK!"

And I walk out. I had to pay money for that shit project, but I got a good larff out of it.

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Then there are the asshats like my brother who will yell from the back of the store while I'm on the check-out line, "DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU NEEDED A SALINE ENEMA? I THINK I REMEMBER YOU SAYING YOU WERE OUT OF STOOL SOFTENER, TOO. AND THOSE FLOWERY-SMELLING DOUCHES." At which point I turn purple with a funny combo of laughter and rage.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

It's more fun to be with friends and play that sort of thing straight all the way through, I think.

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

AND THOSE FLOWERY-SMELLING DOUCHES

You can get Michael Medved at the drugstore?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I must take issue with:

Girls who won't buy condoms (every girl I've ever dated): Classic or Dud?

Every girl I know - self included - buys condoms, a lot, mainly because it is suprising how often *we* have to then produce them at the neccesary moment cos the guy has "like, run out... cant we just go without? Oh gwannnn". Grr, NO.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

It's embarrassing when you get to the checkout and only then do you realise the potential ramifications of when you only need condoms and a cucumber.

― webber (webber), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, it seems I go out with the type of girls who don't succumb to the heat of the moment and aren't often in one night stand situations. I also can't imagine any of them being with a guy who actually says,"Can't we just go without?"

― Stoner Guy, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Ha, ha! My girlfriend just said, "She from Australia? I heard guys out there are just jerks."

I'm sure this is not accurate or anything, but it just cracked me up. When I asked her how she heard this, she said, "Um... couple people. Someone who went over there..." Then, she said her ex-bf "was stationed over there (in marines) and Australian girls were all over him because guys over there were just jerks."

The look on her face was too funny.

― Stoner Guy, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Hahahah =)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

(shhh, that's my secret reason for hanging on the sheepfuXors thread!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Hemmorhoids go away, but small dicks stay that way, dude.
At last, I've found my tattoo.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I like how in Dan's story he's like "let's call her Harriet" but then later calls her 3v3.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Last time I bought some condoms I had this conversation...

Shop assistant: I'll double bag this for you. You don't want everyone knowing what you're doing.
Me: What do I care, at least I'm getting some.
Shope assistant: !

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

oops shope=shop obviously! damn, almost as embarassing as buying tampons! haha.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Eve isn't her real name, either!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Pink, was the shop assistant Woodstock from the Peanuts?

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

this does not bother me. its more embarassing to go into a drug store and get suppositories.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

They should sell fleshlights at Walmart. Then we would have something to be embarassed about.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

if they sold fleshlights at walmart, i'd buy condoms and fuck the shit out of one in the sporting goods department.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

The only thing I hate is getting condoms from convenience stores/garages where they're behind the counter and you have to specify to the cashier exactly the kind you want and they usually make you repeat it because they're from Syria or just for fun. Nooo conversation with my prophylactics, purlease!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

once, i was very very stoned and had to make an emergency run to the bodega to buy tampons (and also a can of tab soda, because i thought it was funny). they were kept behind the counter, so i had to ask the young male clerk for them. this was a bit traumatic in my altered state but i manged to squeak out that i wanted a package of tampax. i didn't specify which absorbency level, though, and instead of asking what colour i wanted (the boxes are coded like that) the guy asked "what flavour?". i completely lost it at that point, broke out into guffaws, and dude became so flustered that he knocked down the whole pyramid of boxes and rained tampons down on himself.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

i honestly can't remember the last time i bought condoms.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

OMG flavoured tampons would be amazing! Citrus-fresh vag!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the guy really was out of razors and shaving cream and had a hankering for a beef jerky snack?

Hard to imagine, I know.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he was embarassed about buying the beef jerky.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

what flavors? ROFFLE

obvious answers -- tartar sauce, or wasabi.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Guys in Australia are not jerks, just somewhat... neanderthal. It's a point of attraction to many women. Overseas, many Australian men play that card and, believe me, it plays well in Capital City. 'Gday! What are ya drinkin luv?' Hmmmm yes it cuts right through all that culture.

― moley, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

NO ONE THINKS YOU'RE BUYING THEM FOR YOURSELF

don't be so sure...

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Urgh, iamgine putting a tampon in your dick.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Can he get himself pregnant?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

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