I had to go to my local drug store to get some contact solution last night and remembered to bring along my camera. I’ve been wanting to get a picture of the deodorant aisle for a long time. The deodorants are all locked behind glass.
I can get my strange tree-hugger deodorant at this CVS, so it’s where I come. But in order to get it, I have to tell a cashier, who unlocks the glass and gets it herself. All I’m allowed to do is point. One time, I chuckled and said to the girl helping me, “Does deodorant get stolen a lot?” She didn’t respond. I’m pretty sure she heard me, but maybe she thinks unlocking the deodorant vault is serious business.
I haven’t joked about it since.
Well, you know how middle schoolers are and all – they’re so fond of the stuff they might just want to buy inordinate quantities of deodorant to roll all over themselves, or to fill their local atmosphere with its pleasant aroma, so this way they are prevented from wiping out entire CVS aisles in one shopping trip……..no, wait……..they actually appear allergic to it, now that I think on it.
Never mind then; I have no logical explanation for why the deodorants at your pharmacy need to live behind lock and key …nor why I’ve never noticed a similar restraint at our local drug store, for that matter. Hmmmm….you really have me wondering now, Brad. Of what controlled substance could they possibly be composed that would necessitate this policy?!
They also lock up the razors and razor blades (or cartridges, is more accurate). I think Carol’s on to something. It must be some controlled powder puff scent.
I have to think it’s because somewhere they’ve had people take one off the shelf, swipe some under their pits, then put it back. *jibblie*
Ewwwww!!!!
Of course! That’s the only explanation … but how would you possibly know this … unless, on your walk to work, have you been stopping in your local drugstore for a quick swipe? Gee, Seward really is one big happy family isn’t it?
Hehe … could Lauren be making a pit stop on her way to work each morning?
I am the queen of cheap, you know. But alas, if I’m going to stop and swipe anything, it would be a doughnut across my tongue.
HA!! Now that’s a pit stop worth making!