I don't know if I ever asked this here. Serious question.

[LuckyCharms]

Back in the good old days, a lot of pharmacies were mom and pop operations, rather than these huge chains.

Back in the 60's, and probably well before that, condoms were kept behind the counter, and you had to ask for them, which caused embarrassment for some customers.

So there was this signal that you would give the pharmacist or the cashier working the register.

On one hand, you would discretely put your index finger and your middle finger together. Then you would lightly slap those two fingers against the opened palm of the other hand.

I'm not bullshitting you...this was kind of a universal signal.

Anyone who actually remembers this gets a cookie.

[Harker]

1. I asked "Art the Dirty Pharmacist", as my mom called him, for rubbers

after I'd inhaled half of the contents of a helium filled balloon.

[LuckyCharms]

2. I used to stretch them over my head while drinking in bars.

So you used to say "Hey Art, gimme some rubbers in a helium voice"?

[Harker]

3. Just once.

I should've brought the balloon in with me, because I laughed a bunch of it away.

It made my day, if not his.

[dweller]

4. Not around these parts, Bucko

Around here, you would put your left hand on your right temple with the index finger and thumb pinched together
Then you would take your right hand and stretch an imaginary rubber band out at arm’s length …………………………………
Then release it and snap your head to the left … pretty simple really

But if you did the same thing on the opposite side of your head, look out !!
The old head pharmacist would come out from the back and scowl stare at you until you left in shame
😣



I should know



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[LuckyCharms]

5. I used to do that while receiving communion.

[dweller]

6. The priest

would flip the wafer like a coin, and we’d clap and bark like a seal and catch it in our mouth …

But that didn’t work with the pharmacist either


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[LuckyCharms]

7. .

[Mr.Bill]

8. I never bought condoms.

I relied on my looks and personality for birth control.

[skylucy]

9. LOL!

[LuckyCharms]

10. I bought a pair of glasses once, online.

They were ugly as sin, but they only cost something like $15, lenses included.

Cheap black plastic frames.

I used to call them my "sex deterrents".

[Skittles]

11. STOP IT MR.BILL

YER KILLING ME

[Duncanpup]

12. With the hand signals how would you ask for the right size.

Just asking