The Item

I needed to buy an embarrassing product. I had to go to the drugstore to get it. Although it was the only thing I needed, I bought a bunch of other stuff, too, so the item would be less noticeable. I wanted to buy different types and brands of what I needed, but that might attract too much attention, so I only bought one.

The only check stand open had a man behind the counter, naturally. He scanned all of my purchases without difficulty except for the special item. He kept waving it back and forth and carefully examining it. No matter how many times he waved my item through the air for all to see, it wouldn't scan.

I was expecting him to get on the public address system and ask for a price check or yell to someone across the store to get the price for him. I just looked down and wanted to disappear. Finally, he typed in the numbers on the label and we were done. Why the f*** didn't he do that as soon as it wouldn't scan?

Now I'm starting to understand why people order from drugstores over the Internet.