by Sara McGinnis posted in Life

Pop quiz, shoppers: You've dashed into the grocery store for a pregnancy test and a bottle of wine, only to realize the only checkout clerk on duty is a young male. Do you look him straight in the eye as your selection beeps across the scanner, or toss a few extra items in your basket to make things blend a little better"
How if it's a box of tampons, chocolate, and hemorrhoid cream" Baby oil and cling wrap"
Of course there's nothing wrong with buying any of these items, by themselves or in any combination, but sometimes it just ends up funny.
"Before we had kids, my husband and I bought condoms and a package of Oreos," a friend recently told me. "I left the store and made him go through the checkout alone." I also recall a BabyCenter Community member posting long ago about running into the store for Vaseline for her baby's chapped cheeks. While there, she saw cucumbers were on sale. Her family really, really likes cucumbers, so she grabbed four. And then she got to the checkout counter.

Another friend shared with me: "Years ago I went to the store to pick up a few things for myself, and my neighbors asked me to grab a package of diapers for them. So I ended up at the checkout line with a box of pregnancy tests, a frozen burrito, a case of beer, and some Huggies."
Perhaps most suspicious of all, a third friend told me her basket once contained a garden hose, chocolate syrup, and an enema. While s...