Embarrassed buying food for sploshing?

[NINA]

Ok this saturday I'm off with a friend to have some fun in a pool of custard but in order for this to happen I've had to buy 100's of packets of 7p custard from tescos and there's no way I could do this in one go because first off they never have enough on the shelf and also I get a little embarrassed at the tills which a paper and loads of custard. Instead I've been buying about 10 a day and still feeling slightly embarrassed as it always seems to be the same girl at the checkouts!!

So anyone else felt embarrassed when buy food for sploshing or is it just me?

Maybe its worse because I know what I'm going to be using it for too?

[CustardPie]

Nina

I have had many a strange look when I have been buying large amounts of food. Normally I go to a cash and carry where they are more used to large quantities (and don't have limits on certain goods that supermarkets can do!)

If you really can't do it, use the Internet and order online - just take the boxes from the driver when he arrives at your doorstep. Or use someone like approved foods http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/ - who will send you cheap (slightly past its best before date) food.

Anyway, just enjoy the looks it my advice, that is the best bit... You could always ask them to join you!

[NINA]

I often think when buying if only they knew what i was really up to

Thanks for the advice too some things like buying out of date food would never have entered my mind. What a good idea!

[andy250]

I use to have a deal with a mainstream supermarket, in Tyldesley. Though unfort, it got took over last year.

Most of the girls there knew what I did, and use to ask when the updates where coming out!!!!!

You'd be suprised how liberal some of the girls are.

That said Tesco's wont do any deals, as I've asked the manageress at my local branch.

regards

Andy

[gungejim]

I suffer from this too, I always think they must know what i want it for.
I try to use the self service checkout if i can.

[BillShipton]

We recently had 40 litres of custard (for a private session) delivered by Tesco Direct to the house (they no longer deliver to business premises). All the man said was "You like custard!" to which I replied vaguely "It's not for me." and no embarrassment ensued.

[sweetnpied]

Well, having just purchased 540 bottles of Smuckers chocolate sundae syrup and 100 boxes of cake batter in 7 weeks (to be used 2 weeks and 2 days from today!), I certainly have had my share of curious looks recently. I mix my intended wam supplies as much of it as I can into my regular weekend shopping for the week, but you don't reach wamming supplies of the quantities I have accumulated so far without going out on shopping runs that are just for the syrup and cake batter. Fortunately, there are a lot of self-service lanes in large supermarkets these days. Didn't have them at all the last time I wammed in the summer of 2005 (also with the same sundae syrup, 250 bottles then, and cake batter, about 70 boxes, but I also included Welch's squeezable strawberry jam, also about 200 bottles, in that 5 days of wamming). So now I feel a little less noticeable buying 20 bottles of syrup or 8 boxes of cake batter at a time. Plus I live in one of the most populated suburban areas in the world, so I have a ton of markets to choose from. There is this one by my church though, that the three times I've been there over the past 4 weeks just for buying sundae syrup, and only to buy about 10-12 bottles because they don't have self-service lanes so I have a real person as cashier, the cashier on each occasion (a different one each time) has inquired into why I needed all the bottles. I say, "I run a restaurant" or "an ice cream store" and the restaurant or store ran out, so I'm buying these in an emergency. That has always shut up the cashier in the past, until the most recent visit (this past Thursday) when the girl behind the cash register asked, "What store?" I mumbled some town about 20 miles away claiming I just left work and was heading home where my store is near. Fortunately, she didn't persist on asking me the name of my store. I had one ready, but it would have sounded crazy. Well, crazier than my story already was. I'm almost at the end of supplying the syrup and cake batter quantities I'm looking to put together. Tomorrow, I'll order the 11 cases of pudding (10 chocolate, 1 vanilla) online (that will be over 450 pounds), and I'm all stocked up! I know, we Americans go at this much differently, at least that's what I've read Bill say over the years. We're so over the top!!!

[SlimeShady]

Where I used to live about 5 years ago, I purchased what can only be described as 'a suspiciously large amount' of gooey food from Tesco's to smear over my girlfriend. Custard, porridge, jam etc... the usual stuff.
I got to the checkout and looked for the dodery old lady or man as they usually don't even notice what they are barcoding.
But, all young ladies.... so, I just went to the shortest one and loaded up the conveyor thing - trying to spread it all out so it looked less obvious.
Started bagging up all the goodies and as I was finishing, then young (18 yrs - ish) girl said, 'Either you have a very sweet tooth, your having a large kids party or your sploshing!'.
Nearly died... and then stuttered out the words... 'kids party'. I retrospect, In should have questioned her further on how she knew about sploshing.
I can even remember her name - Emily.

Anyway... hasn't happened again.

[muckypup]

Self service checkouts certainly make things easier! I find part of the fun is the shopping, I guess the anticipation of it, but I do get a little nervous before checking out I'm sure not many people would even have a clue it went on, or maybe I'm deluded and they all know like Emily. What a great little story, if you are on here give us a wave

[sweetnpied]

Started bagging up all the goodies and as I was finishing, then young (18 yrs - ish) girl said, 'Either you have a very sweet tooth, your having a large kids party or your sploshing!'.

I KNOW!!! Every time I "load up" the cashier's conveyor belt on just the messy stuff, I'm waiting to hear someone get on the store intercom and say, "We have a splosher at cashier #5. We have a splosher at cashier #5." I guess I should feel lucky that we Yanks are overall much more uptight than you Brits! Maybe we have a much smaller % of wammers in the States, or they're much more afraid to admit they know about it themselves!

[Phantom]

When I was in my teens (mannnnny years ago), a woman ahead of me in the queue at Spar had a lot of eggs, tins of rice pudding, custard, soup, beans etc .... about 90% of her shopping was stuff I'd expect to see in a good messy session. might have been coincidence, but my teenager mind was racing!

I got so turned on imagining what was going to happen when she got home.

Phantom

[sweetnpied]

I got so turned on imagining what was going to happen when she got home.
Phantom

<Make note to self... watch out for Phantom behind you in line during your next wam supply run to the supermarket.> Psst, Phantom, tomorrow night. Probably 2 supermarkets. I need to pick up about 30-40 more bottles of chocolate syrup and about 25-30 more boxes of cake mix. I'm not planning on getting it all tomorrow night, but I'm going to at least take a shot at getting all the syrup bottles and a good half of the cake mix boxes I need. Although I've got all the syrup bottles and cake boxes I planned for for my wamathon (2 weeks and 2 days from tonight!), I think I need the extra to do a little self-experimentation during the 2 weeks before the wamathon begins!!! I'm scheduling two experimental sessions (even if hubby's around... hey, this ain't exactly a secret anymore, I mean, it's a little tough to hide 14 boxes, 13 filled with 40 bottles of chocolate sundae syrup each and 1 with another 20, plus another 7 boxes filled with over 100 boxes of cake batter -- so if he also learns I'm testing a few theories out in the bathtub, why should he care). I want to test out some new techniques I want to use on both of us with the cake batter. I figure once I'm in the tub anyway getting messy with the cake batter while doing my experimentations, I might as well have a little solo fun also with some chocolate syrup. If he wants to watch me or join in, that's his decision. I'm not making any demands until the wamathon begins in exactly 16 days.

[Phantom]

ooh - pics to follow?

[SimonW]

When I was in my teens (mannnnny years ago), a woman ahead of me in the queue at Spar had a lot of eggs, tins of rice pudding, custard, soup, beans etc .... about 90% of her shopping was stuff I'd expect to see in a good messy session. might have been coincidence, but my teenager mind was racing!

Phantom

I always seem to get stuck in the very slowest till at the supermarket, and have noticed several times somebody ahead of me buying a lot more potentially messy and sticky things than you might expect in the average person's weekly shop....or perhaps it is just coincidence, as you suggest.

[the_stig]

Best is when you go shopping with your GF for wam supplies, dated a girl for a while (met on umd) her new block of flats where built ontop of a massive asda. Living the dream.... living the dream!

I've never been embarrassed, I have the knack of putting on that serious face at the til that gives of the impression i have no sence of humour and would never entertain the thought of sploshing..... mwah ha ha ha!