Unusual purchases

[karohemd]

The bloke in front of me in the queue at the tesco checkout had five bottles of Golden Syrup and nothing else.

What unusual purchases, be they a single item in bulk or interesting combinations (e.g. cucumber/personal lubricant or meat cleaver/bin liners/spade) have you encountered?

Comments

[sea-cucumber.livejournal.com]

I saw someone in a Pizza Hut uniform buy about 20 boxes of tesco vanilla value ice cream. I think it was because Pizza Hut had run out of ice cream... O_o

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's reassuring. Good thing I don't eat at PH...

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

I bought a tube of KY jelly and a bottle of sterilising fluid in Boots this morning, and the woman behind the counter didn't even blink. I did like the way that the KY jelly showed up on the receipt as "Chemist Goods" though, so nobody would know I had been buying it. The shame! ;)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Heh.

3am in Wal-Mart....

[will-sample.livejournal.com]

..two bottles of rubbing alcohol, cotton balls, a spool of weed-eater string/strand, vaseline, and 7 boxes of extra large condoms-- to a man in drag.

Re: 3am in Wal-Mart....

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

there are some things you don't want to think about...

[lupie-stardust.livejournal.com]

The last Awesome Things I bought were:
2 packets of Paracetamol
4 packets of Ibuprofen
2 boxes of razorblades

And before that:
16 boxes of non-latex condoms
1 bottle of lube

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Impressive, you win on personal purchases atm. :o)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

A box of condoms and a bottle of deodorant, that being the standard teenage boy purchase in Boots early on Saturday evenings. If they didn't buy something else with the condoms they would be embarrassed, and deodorant was the only thing they could think of that Mum didn't buy for them.

[jupiter-jones.livejournal.com]

two boys, each of them buying a box of condoms and wrapping them in gift wrap (december 21st).

[azrelle.livejournal.com]

saw someone with a trolley full of baked beans, 3 watermelons and bog roll

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

at least he's regular

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Sponsored sitting in a bath of baked beans with watermelon slices for friends and sponsors.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You can still remember what you bought on the 21st of December?

[jupiter-jones.livejournal.com]

no but i can remember the boys :) i think i bought.... *shrug* no idea. probably shampoo and toothpaste or something similar and boring.

[von-geisterhand.livejournal.com]

On a paper round there was this house that had a subscription to both "The Daily Sport" and "My little Pony". There is undoubtedly a rational explanation for it, but it was a bit odd at the time.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Riiiight.

[chriscologne.livejournal.com]

When I was 18 I worked at Tesco on the till - a women came trhough and bought just one big, thick carrot. I obviously went red because she grinned and said 'It's not to eat'.

At the same store but 11 years later (this january) I went late at night with my father - we bought a pack of Tesco value digestive biscuits and Tesco value vinegar. Which came to about 37p. My father said to the lad on the checkout (with a straight face) to justify driving all the way to the store (which is in the middle of nowhere) "we are staying in and having a party tonight." The lad looked puzzled/worried. I rolled around laughing.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hehe.

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

On two separate occasions, both in Tesco Hounslow, a trolley full of loo rolls, and about 8 4 litre bottles of milk!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

LARP supplies?

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Didn't look like larping families!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Ah, it was someone else. I thought you bought it.

[pokchop.livejournal.com]

This is where I got the "stuffed Pikachu" reference from - after a high school dance a bunch of us were cruising Wal-Mart at like 3 or 4 am. There was this massive woman in line ahead of us with various items including at least five or six boxes of Magnum rubbers, wasabi paste, a screwdriver, a few rolls of duct tape and a stuffed Pikachu. She was an older lady. In a LOUD Hawaiian mu-mu and house slippers. Her biggest worry seemed to be if she had too many items to actually be in the express line. When she got there, she tried paying for the items with her welfare card. To this day I stand by my statement, that, off in the distance, I heard Sam Walton and the baby Jesus sobbing in unison.

[derekct.livejournal.com]

In tesco's one day in a que, stuck behind someone buying:-

20 litres of Orange Juice
14 Dozen Eggs
Almost forget a easter egg.

[diasporal-waves.livejournal.com]

Nottingham asda many moons ago, guy in front of me:

24 cans cheapy shaving foam.
1 packet of powdered custard.

...ok, then a little gap before all the normal shopping.

= lots of yellow shaving foam smelling slightly of chemical vanilla anyone? Yummy!

[astatine210.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the ingredients for "custard pie" props, barring the pie dishes.

[diasporal-waves.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I wish I was a student again...:)

Your probably right, sponsored pie-fight or some such :)

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

The worst I have bought was stockings, condoms, can of whipped cream, sparkly wine and razor blades (the real type). I then went and found the shortest queue, which had a lad of about 16 on it, and he nearly died.

Believe it or now, I didn't have a date! I always carry condoms, I wanted whipped cream for desert, I wear stockings instead of tights whenever possible, the wine was for a party that night and the razor blades for cutting fake hair!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Poor lad. :o)

Yes, dear. :o)

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

Had I been doing something dodgy I would have realised and gone to another queue

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

OK, I see your point.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I once bought a hockey mask and a baseball bat together, just to see what the reaction would be. None whatsoever. They just took my money. I should have known.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

The wierdest thing I've seen recently was at the bank last weekend, where I was on the queue behind someone paying in ten thousand pounds in tens and twentys. I don't think I've seen that amount of actual cash in one place before.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's impressive. Did the teller ask the customer where the money had come from or checked the numbers or did they just take it?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

They just took it. Money laundering? What's that?

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Bankers drafts you have to pay for.
Online banking usually has a very small limit.
Cheques take time to clear.
Want to transfer money fast, sometimes you've got to use your feet.

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

when i worked in a bank once i had to pay out £20,000 pounds to someone but we only had around £1000 in £50's and £5000 in £20's so I have to pay the rest out in £10's and £5's.

They then put it all in a carrier bag and walked out. And when you pay money out you have to count it all in front of them (having checked it first back office)

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

recently at Euston station, i bought a pack of female sanitary pads and a bottle of lube.


-_-

Yes, they were to be used on seperate occassions, but I don't think the man serving me at the checkout thought so.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

240 eggs.
(Nothing else)

Also, we almost got ejected from the store by security when we tried to take a photograph of this. (No photography in Sainsburys at the time)

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

heh, 2 packs of maxi-pads with wings, a pot of olives and a pound of sliced salami...
The man at the check out was a little confused.

I once bought 3 cans of black spray paint and a stanley knife, and was "escorted" to my car by a security guard.
N.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

[morthrai.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine once went to meet his girlfriend in a Tesco's cafeteria. He found her with a large sausage baguette and a tube of KY on the table. :P