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willingmale1 -> Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/26/2008 9:17:54 PM)

As many of you may have gotten things from your local pets mart stores may know . The cashiers are  trained to ask you about your pet when your cashing out.When i got my first pair of Horse hobblers at a pet store near me . I was unperpaired when the 20 something young girl asked me cheerfully about my horse. The look on her face was priceless when i told her that i did not own a horse. She looked down at the cuffs then back at me and her face turned red as a beet as she quitely rang up the items and cashed me out with out saying a word . I laughted my ass off all the way out to my car



Lynnxz -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/26/2008 9:21:21 PM)

Haha, I have no shame.... well NOW I don't. At one point not too long ago I couldn't even go in the store with my boy friend to buy condoms... eep!

We went to a tack store to pick up a crop, and some other stuff... The male cashier was all smirking .. and goes.. "So... you guy's... is that...?" 

I said "YEP!" and smacked the hell out of L.... hahaha  ^_^



MistressNoName -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/26/2008 9:25:28 PM)

Since your a switch, why not simply describe yourself, only in equine terms...or some sub you've played with or would like to play with. ie, instead of talking about a beautiful complexion, speak in terms of coat...use mane to describe hair color...talk about the person's disposition...and of course, mention their beautiful, strong legs and stride...no need to get kinky with the terminally vanilla. Esp, the young ones. And, you can still get a laugh out of the experience. They'll have no idea you're actually describing a human pony.


Best,

MNN



willingmale1 -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/26/2008 9:26:16 PM)

This is not about buying something but a few years ago after coming home from my subs house i stopped at the bar on the way home i left my duffle bag full of bondage gear on the back seat. when i got home and went to grab the bag it was gone. I hated losing all that gear but when i think about  what the look on the thiefs face must have been like when they opened it and found all the cuffs and collars vibrators dildos gags blindfolds............................. priceless



SNoB -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/26/2008 10:50:38 PM)

I was recently looking for a climbing swivel for my suspension rig, after a few people at diffrient climbing stores asking me what I needed it for, I finally gave up and said "suspension bondage" paused a moment then turned around and walked away.



sadomasokisti -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 1:08:37 AM)

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ORIGINAL: willingmale1

As many of you may have gotten things from your local pets mart stores may know . The cashiers are  trained to ask you about your pet when your cashing out.When i got my first pair of Horse hobblers at a pet store near me . I was unperpaired when the 20 something young girl asked me cheerfully about my horse. The look on her face was priceless when i told her that i did not own a horse. She looked down at the cuffs then back at me and her face turned red as a beet as she quitely rang up the items and cashed me out with out saying a word . I laughted my ass off all the way out to my car


Same here, only in my case it was couple of dog collars (prong collars).  The probably same priceless look on her face when my reply was "I don't have any dogs".



Leatherist -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 1:14:57 AM)

Mine have been in selling gear. A woman once bought some suede wrist cuffs from me at a local dungeon, and put them on.

They were so comfortable that she forgot she had them on-until it was time to pay for gas on the way home. She and the cashier were both a bit surpised when it was seen that she still had them on.[;)]



Sunnyfey -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 3:24:28 AM)

uhh ok this is quite the opposite but i have to share...i was crate training a dog of mine, so when buying the crate at pets mart, my boyfriend at the time calmly without even blinking an eye smiled at the cashier and looked at me with the biggest innocent eyes ever and said "Honey are you SURE you will fit in this?"


I could have died, and the cashier looked like she was going to pass out. My boyfriend just smiled at my for once speechlessness grabbed the crate and hightailed it to the door leaving me blushing like a school girl and paying for it



orangeskye -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 4:35:04 AM)

i've never bought anything that i would be embarressed about, but working for a major retailer in nearly every department, late at night, we get... well.. all you weirdo's in askin' all kinds of pervy questions... and since i do most of the customer service, i deal with most of them. The best was when a couple came in, looking at material for a "costume", mind you, this was recent, not near halloween.... the woman asking the mans oppinon on pink frilly type materials.. and making him ask me to cut yards of it.. boy was HE red lol...
i also caught a guy trying on dog collars once, taking pictures on his cellphone, i just asked him if he was finding things okay, and left him be...

see.. sometimes the person you think you're freaking out.. DOES know exactly what you're on about.:P



DesFIP -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 8:24:56 AM)

What about just saying that a friend asked you to pick up whatever when you mentioned you would be shopping next door?

For those of us who are horse owners, the tack shop owner knows all about our horse so we don't dare buy stuff that isn't for it there. We don't use crops on the horse so I wouldn't dare buy one for me there. I buy from statelinetack.com for fun stuff.



tsatske -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 8:56:25 AM)

i'm convinced that the tack stores know who their secondary market is. They carry an awful lot of crops, and crops get limited use from actual horse owners. And look at the other stuff that they stock near the crops. Pigtrainers. (how many pig farmers do you think are shopping in there? one of my favorite toys, though...) prison straps. singletails. Not a whole lot of use for those on your typical out east farm round here.
i would generally stick to making up answers. I know you are probably day dreaming (or i usually am) and answer 'i don't have one' without thinking, when they ask me about my pet, but i would usually back that up with a made up cover line. 'my friend asked me to pick this up.' 'it's a gift.' 'my daughter just got a new dog' 'we are getting mom a dog for her birthday and i am just picking up my share of the care package.' 'i have this cool craft pattern, for a wreath, and you sort of weave this quirt through it.... it's so cute! perfect for my dad's western themed room.' (crafts cover a multitude of sins, btw, as do costume parties, or costumes for kids plays, or reinactment groups...)
and before someone goes on about nonconsensual involvement - no one considers it nonconsensual when a vanilla married couple does exactly what Sunnyfey described. And i have a lot of vanilla friends with that kind of sense of humor. just remind yourself to look at it from a vanillas point of view - can this pass? if that cashier told her story to her co-workers, they just said, 'oh, some men have a bad sense of humor, Hon, he was probably just teasing his wife.'



Lucylastic -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 11:11:14 AM)

When I sold toys at home parties, I used to get a cab from home to the partyand back(I dont drive), One night I was on my way back home and there was a huge buzzing noise coming from my kit bag.. The driver mentioned it and I said, Oh I think I  know what it is....so Im searching for the buzz, but I  had buried my bag of vibes down at the bottom of the bag, in the end I had to pull out lingerie n stuff to get to the bag...then fiddle around for the vibe, the driver turned on the interior light, but when I picked out the damn thing to turn off, he turned it off, he didnt say much but gave me his card at the end of the ride and offered to be my own "personal" driver. I never took him up on it. I moved to canada not long after
I dont get embarrassed now.
Lucy



SNoB -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 4:55:23 PM)

How else can you explain the hand shaped crops?

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ORIGINAL: tsatske

i'm convinced that the tack stores know who their secondary market is. They carry an awful lot of crops, and crops get limited use from actual horse owners. And look at the other stuff that they stock near the crops. Pigtrainers. (how many pig farmers do you think are shopping in there? one of my favorite toys, though...) prison straps. singletails. Not a whole lot of use for those on your typical out east farm round here.
i would generally stick to making up answers. I know you are probably day dreaming (or i usually am) and answer 'i don't have one' without thinking, when they ask me about my pet, but i would usually back that up with a made up cover line. 'my friend asked me to pick this up.' 'it's a gift.' 'my daughter just got a new dog' 'we are getting mom a dog for her birthday and i am just picking up my share of the care package.' 'i have this cool craft pattern, for a wreath, and you sort of weave this quirt through it.... it's so cute! perfect for my dad's western themed room.' (crafts cover a multitude of sins, btw, as do costume parties, or costumes for kids plays, or reinactment groups...)
and before someone goes on about nonconsensual involvement - no one considers it nonconsensual when a vanilla married couple does exactly what Sunnyfey described. And i have a lot of vanilla friends with that kind of sense of humor. just remind yourself to look at it from a vanillas point of view - can this pass? if that cashier told her story to her co-workers, they just said, 'oh, some men have a bad sense of humor, Hon, he was probably just teasing his wife.'



One recently not so fun things, was my mother questioning me about what projects ive been working on in my woodshop.  I didnt really feel like saying "Oh I just turned out 20 paddles".



YourhandMyAss -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 5:18:02 PM)

REally? I've shopped at pet stores numerous times and never been asked about my pets.
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ORIGINAL: willingmale1

. The cashiers are  trained to ask you about your pet when your cashing out.



katie978 -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 5:23:20 PM)

   Mine was a bit less obvious, but I still fumbled for words and was highly embarassed. I was trying to make one of those under-the-bed bondage set-ups (instead of overpaying insanely for a pre-made one). So I had to buy a lot of grosgrain ribbon, and those backpack hook-ups and such. The old lady at the fabric store looked at me a little skeptically when I told her I was making a purse with 9 yards of black ribbon, and all the clamps, and the hooks.



willingmale1 -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/27/2008 6:33:17 PM)

Well Im glad to see all of you enjoyed this post i hope it put a smile on all your faces thinking back on these moments



saradeanna469 -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/28/2008 2:11:54 AM)

I didn't really think this was that uncomfortable but I'm sure it was funny.  My transsexual roommate and I went into Lowes wearing stilettos, moderately short skirts, sexy tops and I was wearing a collar.  We had fun buying 2 foot long eyebolts, 4 pieces of equal length medium duty chain, a large assortment of connectors and about 100 feet of 5/8" soft nylon rope.  I'm sure everyone knew why we were there.  It doesn't bother me at all to go buy bondage gear in vanilla places... and if anyone asks me what it's for, I will tell them.  I just don't see any reason to hide what I'm doing.



Maya2001 -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/28/2008 9:10:00 AM)

I had bought some whips by mail order ,  but the envelope it was shipped in totally fell apart , so the post office official just packed it in a clear plastic bag   attached a  notice that this is how is arrive and had me come to the post office to pick up in the event  they were damaged  so it could be verified  in the event I wanted to return   so at the post office where I am known ,  and the staff knows I live in town  and infront of  other customers they pull out the bag so I can inspect  my whips    ...lots of fun trying to act non chalant  about and praying no one is going to ask any questions on what I am planning to use them on [:D]



Leatherist -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/28/2008 9:11:14 AM)

"Oh my costume party stuff has arrived" did they buy it?



CalifChick -> RE: Tell us about some uncomfortable moments when paying for any of your bondage gear (3/28/2008 9:27:54 AM)

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ORIGINAL: tsatske
crafts cover a multitude of sins


I tried that once. Went to the hardware store (a good-sized local place, not a chain store), and walked up to the service desk with an armful of rolls of webbing, and every welded D-ring they had in the bins.  I was picking up supplies for someone who makes gear but doesn't have quite as good a selection of webbing in colors as we do in my town. 

So the guy starts measuring and cutting the lengths of webbing, and he says, "so, what are you making?"... and I said, "uhhhhh, crafts."  He looks up from measuring and pauses and says, "crafts??  Ohhhhhhhhh, CRAFTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and smiles that knowing smile and yes I blushed. 

So another customer walks up behind me, and he's waiting for his turn, and he sees all the webbing, and he says, "whatcha making?" and the dude behind the counter says, with much enthusiasm, "She's making CRAFTS!!!!!" And the other guy looks puzzled and says, "crafts?" and the dude says, again with wayyyy too much enthusiasm, "YES!!!! She's making CRAFTS!!!!!!!!!"

Sigh.  Then when he was finished cutting and preparing my purchases, he says, "now when you need more supplies for those CRAFTS, make sure you come back and see me!"

Cali



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