Rosemarie Riley learned a valuable and embarrassing lesson about going shopping without your glasses on.
Rosemarie took a quick trip to the grocery store to grab some tea, dog food and some bread. However, the 76-year-old forgot her glasses and the gran-of-eight accidentally popped a 30-pack of Durex Thin Feel condoms into her basket, believing them to be Tetley teabags.
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Rosemarie’s husband, John Riley, 78, was dumbfounded as to why she’d bought them. Rosemarie begged her granddaughter Gemma to return the condoms and get them refunded – of course Gemma couldn’t stop laughing about the situation.
Gemma, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, said:
I’ve not stopped laughing, and It’s brought many people to tears. I saw the box on the side and asked her ‘how come you’ve bought these?’
She didn’t notice what they were until my grandad noticed on the receipt. He’d said to her: ‘How come you’ve bought condoms, you silly mare?’ He wasn’t very happy she’d spent that much money on his card. From there we had a little giggle about it all and I said I’d return them for her.
Gemma wrote in her Facebook post: ‘Sooo nan’s gone and brought these from Asda thinking they were teabags – and her wonderful granddaughter has the job of returning them. So please, if anyone sees me returning these, don’t judge. All she wants is her Yorkshire teabags.’
She added: ‘Happy Tuesday. She will be wearing her glasses next time she goes shopping as we are worried what she might come back with next time.’
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Gemma, a mum-of-one, went back to Asda that evening explained what happened. Luckily, the staff found it as funny as she did.
Gemma explained:
My nan said they were actually on the aisle where the teabags were – so either someone popped them back, or she’s got mixed up, I’m not too sure. I said: ‘She’s picked these up instead of the teabags, is there any chance I can get the teabags and return these?’
The lady was laughing her head off. I was too and then I ran out there as quickly as I could. Everybody knows me around here and I didn’t want to be seen returning them, especially before Valentine’s Day. I said to my nan: ‘I thought you were in for a good time’.
As for Rosemarie…she admits she felt ‘mortified’, wondering whether the lady at the till thought she was ‘a bit raunchy’. ‘I just threw everything onto the conveyor belt and shoved them in the bag, I didn’t think. My husband normally does all the shopping but he’s not very well. I don’t care, I just grab whatever’s there, I’m a terrible shopper,’ she said.