Embarrassed buying food for sploshing?

[NINA]

Just bought a few more packets of custard down Tescos for my pool spolshing this weekend but wishI'd joined here a lot earlier as I've read some much better and less embarrassing ways of buy custard in bulk now

[capstick]

I have no problem buying stuff from my local £1 store!

C.

[sweetnpied]

ooh - pics to follow?

Well, I'm planning on hubby taking a ton of pics. I'm hoping to find one or two that hides my face enough (I'll have him cut it off in several of the shots or see if shots from the rear work) and is not so unflattering (not exactly the 110 pounder I was when I got married... okay it was 115) that I won't be completely humiliated to post it. There will have to one or two that will work. (Can't tell him why I'm doing that though. He would never okay me posting my pic!)

[PleasePieMeMistress]

I often get odd looks when I buy 4-10 cans of shaving foam at a time (might be because I've got a pretty good beard!) if anybody asks me I tell them the truth it seems to keep them quiet!

I've also bought cheap stores own 'angel delight' and ready to serve custard in dubious quantities, but nobody has asked about that yet....

[smittybill53]

I don't remember ever being embarrassed to purchase stuff. I tend to purchase a little at each location even if it's the same product.
The are so many supermarkets and drug stores around here that depending on what you're picking up any place would have them.
Usually I pick up a couple of things randomly and store them for later.

[trollsb]

Usually if shopping we go together and since the humiliation aspect is kinda part of it for me my bf happily announce to any curious check-out service exactly what he plans to do o me with it....

[NINA]

Funny the last few weeks I've been buying shed loads of 7p custard and tescos has been running out then today now I've stopped buying it looks like they've over ordered as there was far more there than i've ever seen before! LOL

[Essexgungefan]

Funny the last few weeks I've been buying shed loads of 7p custard and tescos has been running out then today now I've stopped buying it looks like they've over ordered as there was far more there than i've ever seen before! LOL

Well thats 'supply and demand' for ya

[Goodwrench]

This discussion has been here many times before. Someone once described the process of buying a large quantity of some messy substance "wam foreplay", as you do get quite a rush wondering what the cashier is thinking. Posters here who have worked as store cashiers have made the comment, "They don't care what you are buying, they are just waiting for their shift to be over", but I am sure that some people may wonder, "Hmmm, 8 tins of baked beans, 8 tubs of cool whip, 8 boxes of cake batter, but no frosting?" But I agree with the "humiliation" factor, for me, going to the store is part of the fun.

[sweetnpied]

Well, I'm usually in my business clothes when I stop during the week, and even on weekends I'm guessing that being a female (and since we Yanks are way too uptight, in general, to ever think someone might be doing THAT in THAT messy collection of things on the conveyor belt), I seem to avoid a lot of questions. And THANK GOD for that!!! The tough part for me has been this one store near my church. In fact, I've stopped going there now (the store, not the church) because every time I've been there, and not really getting a ton of stuff, the cashiers have always asked questions. All 3 times questions from teenage female cashiers. Don't think too suspicious because all I bought each time was chocolate sundae syrup (probably 12-15 bottles each time), but they wonder, "Oh, you having an ice cream party?" One of them actually asked, "Can I come over?" (I SWEAR!) Jokingly, of course, but that's when I came up with a lame story that I run an ice cream shop and we ran out. Then she asked, "Where is it?" Like she might stop by after work. I mumbled something like it was in a town 20 miles away and I was just stopping at the store after my regular job to go over there and see what's going on and deliver these. By then, mercifully, the transaction was completed and I was able to rush out of the store. Made my stupid story about having an emergency at an ice cream shop seem a LITTLE more authentic since I practically ran out of the store. I'm now only 11 bottles away from my final goal of 600! Can do that practically in my sleep this weekend, mixed in with my regular shopping.

[gungejim]

Iv just been talking to a girl on fb and she works in tesco she was saying she as not heard of sploshing but when someone comes in and buys loads of cream and custard she can guess what it is for. She said she just grins at them lol.
She all so said she likes the sound of it and want to try it I'm working on giving a hand with that
She gets discount too lol

[Invicta]

Iv just been talking to a girl on fb and she works in tesco she was saying she as not heard of sploshing but when someone comes in and buys loads of cream and custard she can guess what it is for. She said she just grins at them lol.
She all so said she likes the sound of it and want to try it I'm working on giving a hand with that
She gets discount too lol

Sounds like she'd be a sploshers' dream girlfriend- up for messy fun, and can buy custard at staff discount prices- Result!

[sweetnpied]

Well, two nights ago I avoided at least one occasion of going face-to-face with a live person when I bought some of my wam supplies. I ordered 10 cases of chocolate pudding and 1 case of vanilla pudding (containing 6 7-pound cans of pudding in each case) online. I CAN'T fucking believe I had the nerve to do THAT! LOL. Can you imagine what the worker at the warehouse though when he (or she, perhaps) saw THAT order. And I've already received an email from the company that the stuff shipped out yesterday! Now I have to figure what to say to the neighbors if they see it arrive! Fortunately, we live in a pretty isolated area. But they're still are houses in line of sight of our house and if they see a Fed Ex truck with the person delivering 11 heavy cases of items to our front door I hope I don't have some explaining to do the next time I bump into that neighbor in the grocery store or elsewhere in town! LOL!

[kurlt]

A little embarrassment is half the fun. Reminds me of purchasing a copy of Razzle with the lovely Karen Parkington covered in custard on the cover.

[andy250]

Karen Partington, mad blonde woman from Preston, only ever met her twice, really nice lady.

I'll let Bill explain about how Karen use keep her make up!!! The Big Tin!!!!!

Cue Bill.....

regards

Andy