Shopping for my job

My shopping list this week included: Taxidermy moose head, KY Jelly, 2 lbs feathers, balloons, fishing line
Glock or revolver, and a mousetrap.

I actually said the sentence, “As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.”

What’s the strangest combination of things you’ve ever bought?

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13 thoughts on “Shopping for my job”

  1. Now that is a list! Too bad you can’t pick up all those things at the local supermarket. I can imagine the look you’d get from the cashier when you buy them all together.

  2. Teeheehee.

    It’s an old joke in the retail business. No one is capable of buying a box of condoms/KY/etc. without picking up something else–as if the something else is going to make the cashier forget that she’s ringing up a box of rubbers!

    Here in Utah, where we have a whole gruntload of Mormons, the dutiful husband buys the condoms and a six-pack of caffeine-free soda pop. How romantic!

  3. “My shopping list this week included: Taxidermy moose head, KY Jelly, 2 lbs feathers, balloons, fishing line Glock or revolver, and a mousetrap.”

    Knocking out a little redneck Christmas shopping? 😉

    I don’t think I can top this list. SRSLY.

  4. Ha ha ha! When I’m bored, I try to come up with strange purchasing combinations that might make a cashier’s eyebrows raise, but that takes the cake. Bravo!

  5. Makes me wonder what it must be like being the new guy in a big home-improvement store. “Hey Jack, we just had a couple in here buying 2-inch wooden dowels, heavy-duty eyebolts, the hardware to hang a porch swing, and a hundred feet of rope. What do you think they were making?” “Well, was either of ’em wearing a collar?”

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