MEN BUYING TAMPONS
Mood: Valentine's Day-ish
When I was in college..... I had this male buddy who was new to having a live-with girlfriend but was trying to be really harmonious at it...
So one Sunday, when she was ill and bed-ridden, she asked him to go to the ONE drugstore in our little college town because she was out of tampons, and obviously needed them!
There was much protest and childish sighing before he agreed to, but Charlie (my buddy) saw secure reinforcement in asking me to accompany him.
At the Walgreen's we looked and looked in every appropriate aisle, but could NOT find them. Probably out-of-stock. It was Sunday evening and the store was very crowded.
I urged the timid Charlie to ask someone, but he demurely refused. We proceeded to a check out line anyway.....without the goods.
With a lengthy parade behind us, we got up to the male cashier. Charlie and I looked at each other - Charlie was beet red.
So I knew I had to do the asking. I leaned over to whisper quietly in the clerk's ear, asking if they had any "Tampex"......
But the clerk mistakenly thought I said 'Thumb tacks' , so his too-loud response was:
"DO WANT THE KIND YOU PUSH IN WITH YOUR THUMB, OR BEAT IN WITH A HAMMER??!!"
Charlie swooned and dropped; The line of onlookers was confused. We went back without any feminine hygiene products, which ultimately caused their breakup.
