Something for the weekend sir?

[Dave7]

Apparently the 1st commercially sold condoms dates back to the 17th century when a certain John Miller** sold them from his farmacy.
**hence the name Johnny's (many other spellings).
The 1st record of condoms being used dates back to ancient Egypt.
AND
I just realised this is in the wrong thread

 

[Electric_Andy]

Well I never knew that.

 

[ColinJ]

I didn't know that either, and what's more - I didn't know what gets used at weekends either!

I used to get my hair cut by a barber in Hebden Bridge. I noticed that when he finished the men ahead of me in the queue, he always used to ask them "Anything for the weekend, sir?"

This went on for a year or two and I started to get curious about what the subject of that question was. Eventually, I mentioned it to an older man at work and he started laughing ... "He's asking if they want to buy some condoms!"

Okay, I thought ...

But then - "Hang on, why doesn't he he ask me if I want to buy any condoms?"

A voice rang out from behind a partition - "Come on, Col, you hardly look like somebody who'd been needing condoms at the weekend!"

Much hilarity around me ...

 

[Dave7]

I didn't know that either, and what's more - I didn't know what gets used at weekends either!

As an 'old git' I remember that phrase well.
I also clearly the 1st time I asked for them in a chemist, I was so embarresed.

 

[classic33]

As an 'old git' I remember that phrase well.
I also clearly the 1st time I asked for them in a chemist, I was so embarresed.

The chemist lent you his fishing rod?

 

[Dave7]

The chemist lent you his fishing rod?

Not quite.
And to make it worse it was a woman that served me.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've never bought them from a shop, I think the only time I needed them, they were bought off the internet. I would certainly not buy them from a barbers shop! In fact, if I had bought them from the barbers in my home town, they would probably have been 7 years out of date and covered in hair

 

[ColinJ]

Now I've discovered that they have a Use By date!

 

[AndyRM]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-c5-mPT1U

 

[presta]

Now I've discovered that they have a Use By date!

It's probably a BBE date: still safe to use, but they just don't taste as good.

 

[Cycleops]

As an 'old git' I remember that phrase well.
I also clearly the 1st time I asked for them in a chemist, I was so embarresed.

I imagine that was how they came to be sold by barbers.

 

[JtB]

As an 'old git' I remember that phrase well.
I also clearly the 1st time I asked for them in a chemist, I was so embarresed.

Mrs JtB and I had only been married for a short time when Mrs JtB started working part time as an assistant in a pharmacy (note: Mrs JtB is Spanish and at the time she was still in the very early stages of learning English). The pharmacy itself was quite small, but it was so densely packed with floor to ceiling shelving that it stocked more merchandise than many shops twice its size. Of course that sometimes made finding what you needed quite challenging. The layout however was very logical and so the pharmacist told my wife that if a customer asks for something and you don’t know what it is then ask what it’s for and that will enable you to go to the right section (e.g cough medicines) where the product is located. So, one day a young man wearing a motorcycle helmet came into the shop and sheepishly asked for condoms by their brand name. Unfortunately my wife didn’t recognise what he was asking for and so she asked what it was for. Well, there was total silence and even though the young man was still wearing a motorcycle helmet my wife could see that he was glowing bright red. Luckily the pharmacist had overheard the conversation and came rushing out from the dispensary to discretely place the product into a paper bag and hand it to the young man who still hadn’t managed to utter a single coherent word.

 

[Drago]

Prior to that people used stationery for contraceptive purposes. It was quite normal to come in a jiffy.

 

[matticus]

Mrs JtB and I had only been married for a short time when Mrs JtB started working part time as an assistant in a pharmacy (note: Mrs JtB is Spanish and at the time she was still in the very early stages of learning English). The pharmacy itself was quite small, but it was so densely packed with floor to ceiling shelving that it stocked more merchandise than many shops twice its size. Of course that sometimes made finding what you needed quite challenging. The layout however was very logical and so the pharmacist told my wife that if a customer asks for something and you don’t know what it is then ask what it’s for and that will enable you to go to the right section (e.g cough medicines) where the product is located. So, one day a young man wearing a motorcycle helmet came into the shop and sheepishly asked for condoms by their brand name. Unfortunately my wife didn’t recognise what he was asking for and so she asked what it was for. Well, there was total silence and even though the young man was still wearing a motorcycle helmet my wife could see that he was glowing bright red. Luckily the pharmacist had overheard the conversation and came rushing out from the dispensary to discretely place the product into a paper bag and hand it to the young man who still hadn’t managed to utter a single coherent word.

"Remember kids, when you're abroad, you can often get by with pointing at things or miming when you don't know the precise word. "

 

[ColinJ]

Mrs JtB and I had only been married for a short time when Mrs JtB started working part time as an assistant in a pharmacy (note: Mrs JtB is Spanish and at the time she was still in the very early stages of learning English). The pharmacy itself was quite small, but it was so densely packed with floor to ceiling shelving that it stocked more merchandise than many shops twice its size. Of course that sometimes made finding what you needed quite challenging. The layout however was very logical and so the pharmacist told my wife that if a customer asks for something and you don’t know what it is then ask what it’s for and that will enable you to go to the right section (e.g cough medicines) where the product is located. So, one day a young man wearing a motorcycle helmet came into the shop and sheepishly asked for condoms by their brand name. Unfortunately my wife didn’t recognise what he was asking for and so she asked what it was for. Well, there was total silence and even though the young man was still wearing a motorcycle helmet my wife could see that he was glowing bright red. Luckily the pharmacist had overheard the conversation and came rushing out from the dispensary to discretely place the product into a paper bag and hand it to the young man who still hadn’t managed to utter a single coherent word.

Haha - that reminds me of Leisure Suit Larry...