Its embarassing, everyone knows you're getting sex and they cant help but think ... "Hmm, hes having sex. I know this because he's holding packets of condoms" and its awkward getting looks from mothers and whatever. So this is why I buy in bulk. I had grabbed 2 packets of 24 condoms. These are in bright orange boxes, quite obnoxious if you ask me. Anyway, It was the only thing I needed at the time so I didnt both with one of those little plastic carry cases and just picked them off the shelves and proceded to the self-serve checkout. I dont know about anywhere else in the world, but we can purchase things at a supermarket without the help of a cashier. Theres a row of 6 machines, 3 on each side. All that you need to do besides not running out of the store with goods is swipe the barcode of each item against the sensor and it will accumulate the cost of the items on a screen in which you then select how you will pay, it has options for card and cash. Anyway, so my ex girlfriend is using one of the machines to the opposite side, and I didnt realise until I got there. So in a haste to avoid having her try and converse with me, I was scanning the condoms quickly and accidently scanned them 3 times instead of 2, and I was trying to figure out how to delete an item from the machine, then I read a sign saying that deleted items needed to be removed with the help of a cashier. So I had to ask this young girl to remove one of the condom packets, she could see that there were 3 24 packet condoms showing on the screen and she coyly asked if it was just the 1 or 2. She must have thought I was some kind of freak. Anyway, I think the scraggy crackwhore opposite to me wasn't aware, otherwise she would have definitely approached me. But that was my condom buying experience for the night. Its not a extremely embarassing set of events, its just an example that things arn't always as simple as they should be. Buying some condoms turned into avoiding my ex gf at the cashout and having some girl think im some sort of sex/pervert after asking her to delete one of the 3 scanned packets of 24 condoms.