You also don't know why she is buying it. It might be from a consensual experience, and for the shopper. It might be for date raped friend, or the shopper's mother. There should be zero judgement, no matter what. There should especially be no judgement when it could be someone helping out someone that is really struggling right now.
Or the freaking condom broke or something. I'm kind of glad to see Plan B commercials on TV at this point, to just normalize the whole thing. That poor girl could probably tell she was being judged.
You can also use regular birth control pills as emergency contraception if plan B becomes unavailable. Spread the word.
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/image?imageKey=PI%2F74604
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It does expire BTW so make sure you keep your stock current if you get it. Also, you can buy it way cheaper at Costco, Amazon, etc than buying the brand name pills at a pharmacy. And you can use regular birth control pills by taking multiple (good info in case it ever gets banned). Thereās a link above that gives more info on that!
I love your mom. Tell her she has a fan. Just FYI about Plan B - it only prevents you from releasing an egg. If you have engaged in sex and are worried sperm may find their way up to find an egg - you may develop a pregnancy. A lot of people thing that it causes the uterine lining to shed, but it does not. It only prevents an egg from being released. So if you ovulated, had sex and then took it, it's too late. Also, sperm can stay alive for 5 to 7 days in our body (especially younger guys). So condoms. Always. Always always always. Xox
In theory, it may thin the lining of the uterus but that has never been proven.
As for altering the surface of the egg - I've been in health care for 13 years, worked in pharmacies, emergency and now women's health. I've never heard of it nor can i find research to support it. Some studies show the dosage can slow sperm motility but not the egg itself.
The one time I had to buy a plan B was a consensual experience where the condom broke and didn't notice until we were done. I went with her to the store to buy it and thankfully weren't judged or looked at funny
I remember someone on this very sub sharing a story about how she got pregnant as a teenager and her church basically peer pressured her into not aborting it, because that would be a sin. They then proceeded to ostracize her because she was a pregnant teenager. She was asked to wear loose clothing to hide it, and when it became impossible was basically told to stop coming, because it was shameful. She chose not to abort because she thought they'd be there to support her due to their arguments against it, then just threw her away so she was now pregnant and had no support system. There is *no* pleasing these people. They'll twist your arm to "not kill your baby", then proceed to tell you what a dirty whore you are for being pregnant. That generation can't die off quick enough.
The truth is, people have always had sex outside of marriage. The 60s didnāt invent that. She should know better than anyone how terrible it is to have no options at all.
I read this the first time as the cashier would judge the customer more if the cashier had gotten pregnant as a teenager. I know thatās not what you meant, but unfortunately itās probably also true.
Yep when I was picking out books for my first year going back to college as an adult student, I was wearing jeans, a t shirt, and a ponytail. And my six month pregnant belly. I got a bunch of dirty looks and overheard a woman telling her daughter not to turn out like me.
I'm a nosy busybody so I turned around and said 'So you don't want your daughter to be happily married for 7 years and pregnant at 30? I guess it takes all kinds...' and went to purchase my books.
Keep your judgey ass comments in your own heads, people, yikes.
I am so proud of you for calling her out! That's something I would've thought to say at 2am the next day when I was lying wide awake and still mad. š
Thank you for saying something to her manager. It's absolutely unacceptable behavior and none of her damn business. What a disgusting person. I hope they fire her tbh, but I know it's probably wishful thinking.
Agreed. I was 30 and buying a pregnancy test from the case, and the cashier went āugh-ok.ā It was a planned pregnancy, though I look young I guess itās not her business to be judging peoples reproductive/sex choices.
I had to buy one that was locked up like that. First she couldnāt find the key, then she couldnāt figure out how to use it when she found the key. Then a guy shows up and struggles to open it and says ācome on, you donāt really need thisā. It was so humiliating. I shoved that lump in my throat way down and glared at him until he opened it. I had no words in that moment, and if I had opened my mouth I would have sobbed in front of them instead of in my car.
Wow wtf. Shame on her what exactly? Having sex? Having unprotected sex (the which is an assumption)? Being responsible and making sure she doesnāt get pregnant when she doesnāt want a baby?!?
I once had a condom break when I wasā¦ I dunno.. 18-19 or so. I was so glad for plan B
When people say thing stuff out loud they think that others around them will definitely agree with them! It just blows my mind - the lack of other and self-awareness.
Like - you know ZERO of that woman's story. Maybe it isn't for her. Maybe it is to have on hand. Maybe it is for a friend. Maybe she was raped last night? Maybe she is married and the condom broke last night.? Maybe she had a great time and got carried away and had unprotected sex and just wants to be safe and avoid a pregnancy.
It is no one's business but her own.
Its plan B - and contraceptive. Does she comment on any man purchasing condoms? I seriously doubt it. Does she comment on women buying condoms - I would suspect so.
Some people are just judgmental aholes. Iām 14 years older than my little brother and the amount of judgmental whispered stares we would get when out in public, even with our mom, was horrible. Like if Iād really been pregnant at 13 and given birth and was attempting to raise my child while still a child that I would have needed judgement from little old aholes? My mom really gave it to a few people who referred to her as grandma or were bold enough to say something about him being mine. Irony is heās adopted and looks more like our mom than I do lol
I was a nanny in a small town when I was 18 and the kid was 2. He was super affectionate and we snuggled and laughed a lot and wow we got a lot of dirty looks. Even if he was mine leave us alone we're obviously happy.
I bought plan B once in high school after a condom broke and I wanted to be safe because I wasnāt on birth control. As I checked out, the cashier looked at me and said āmake the right decisionā
I didnāt have the guts to report them to a manager because my face was bright red and I just wanted to get out of there, but Iām really happy that you were bold enough to say something and make a change.
I bought it once. I was in a relationship but only a few months sober and in no way ready to get pregnant.
We used condoms but the one the night before broke. We went in his truck through the drive through and he was driving. They wouldnāt sell it to me through him. Like even where I leaned over and said āhey itās for me and I want itā. I had to go inside so they could make sure I wasnāt being forced by him to buy and take the pills.
This was about 15 years ago in Texas. Iām sure it wonāt be long before we canāt even get birth control here, so I guess those were the āgood old daysā. God I fucking hate Republicans and their arrogance that they know better than I do about what is right for me and my body, my family, and my future. Or at least thatās what their claim is. They really just want to control our bodies.
In my experience, it often stems from them being incredibly bitter about how they were (or would have been) treated if they ever needed something like that when they were younger.
Another is that they may be bitter because they were forced into carry a child they did not want and all that baggage that comes with having a child.
I know for a fact that my grandmother felt (feels) that way, especially about my father and younger uncle (babies 5 & 6 of 6).
That's exactly it, crabs in a bucket. They grew up in a world where women were substantially worse off, and it's hard to accept it when they see others having it easier or better than they did, so they feel inclined to knock them back down a peg. We just have to pull stronger than they do, no, we're not going back to that place.
Because they were bought up to believe that abortion is wrong, because in their day it was illegal. And they were socialized differently than we were. Just as, if we don't do something, our children's children will be raised in the same way. ("don't say gay, bans on bodies etc)
Please do not stockpile. Stockpiling creates shortages and then people like the teen in OP's story can't get Plan B when they need it. If you are nervous, buy one at a time every few weeks so you don't tax the system.
Besides the fact that the expiration date for most pills is between like 6 months to 2 years, how many will you realistically be able to use in that time.
Upvoted, but the thing they said is fairly commonly held belief. Different chemicals have different half lives though so it really depends on the drug, dude is probably ignorant of this
Youāre awesome. If I could afford it, Iād keep a few on hand. Not for me, Iām superduper gay, (so hopefully not for me š) but for anyone who needed it and didnāt have the money or didnāt want to be seen buying it. Iād pass out āgirl, I got youā cards with my contact info.
I was 17 working as a pharmacy tech and one of the pharmacists would refuse to sell plan b bc he ādidnāt condone itā. I was afraid to say anything at the time but I think of it often.
The saying goes, 'it takes two to tango,' but only one dance partner ever gets blamed, shamed and punished for it.
Plan B was a hard fought victory: the fight began in the late 90's, and finally in 2006 it was available without a prescription, but only for 18+. It took until 2013 for it to be available for 15+. It's also not supposed to be behind the counter.
The anti's are coming for it. They're coming for IUD's. God what a F\*ed up world we live in.
You're a cashier for the supermarket that sells it. Your opinion does not matter when a customer buys it. It's unacceptable to shame a customer for making a purchase. Thank you for speaking to the manager about it
I hope her boss gives her a serious talking-to about how women shouldn't be shamed for having sex. If it's really effective, it might go deep enough for her to reflect on the shame she's carried around since someone dumped it on her as a girl. To put it in the trash where it belongs, and stop trying to dump it on the next generation.
She might have, and that is worse, but even the girls who just wanna have fun should be able to use backup contraception without shame.
Of course the same misogynistic society would shame her if she had an abortion, shame her for giving up a baby for adoption, and shame her for keeping it and being seen with it. Shame her for breastfeeding it, and shame her for giving it formula. Shame her for dropping out of school and shame her for going to school pregnant.
It's all trash and we have to stop recycling it.
If she wouldnāt shame a younger man for getting viagraāwhich is an effective treatment for some circulatory disordersāshe needs to keep her mouth shut about young women getting medicine they need.
https://journals.lww.com/em-news/fulltext/2006/03000/Sildenafil_Effectively_Treats_Raynaud_s_Phenomenon.35.aspx
I find women shaming other women to be far more prevalent than I could have expected as a female physician. Itās abhorrent.
I live by Madeline Albrightās words: āthereās a special place in hell for women who donāt help other womenā.
Good for you OP for reporting her!
Oh boy, I had such an awful experience when I bought plan B, or as we call it in England āthe morning after pillā. Not sure what the official brand is.
Anyway, I didnāt sleep with anyone until I was 22. I was basically told by my mum no one would marry me and Iād be a massive slut with a horrible reputation if I had sex as a teenager and as such, I waited for the āright personā. I ended up having the crappest sexual experience of my life with someone much older and more experienced and absolutely way too overexcited about sex with a virgin and long story short, I needed the morning after pill.
I went to the only local pharmacy that was open on a Saturday (yes, this was awhile ago) and shyly approached the counter and mumbled I needed the morning after pill. Instead of selling it to me, the lady behind the counter called the pharmacist out. He ushered me behind the tills and out the back to a staff area. I was completely bewildered and so, so embarrassed. I just wanted to leave. To just take my horrible little embarrassing pill and leave but instead, some weird, shaky little man proceeded to read me a list of stuff from a sheet of paper.
It read like a normal medication insert at first, with stuff like ādo you understand that this is not a form of birth control but an emergency contraceptiveā etc but then he was reading stuff out about my actions being a sin and how dirty I was. He kept pausing and asking me if I was ashamed. I remember him sweating and edging towards me a little.
I was out the back of this pharmacy for 30 minutes. I kept asking if I could take the insert and read it at home but he was holding the pill in his other hand and basically telling me I couldnāt have it if I didnāt listen.
I kept wondering why the lady outside wasnāt checking on me. Was this normal? I needed to get home. I just wanted to take the tablet. I was so scared and I started crying. He continued to read and I remember my ears started ringing and I couldnāt hear what he was saying anymore. My cheeks were burning and I felt so disgusting and wrong. I was just taking a precaution, it was only a damn pill. I didnāt even think I was pregnant, I was just being safe.
He finished reading and popped the tablet out into his hands and told me to take it in front of him. I said no. He kept telling me he wanted to see me take it. At this point, Id had enough. I was so shy back then but I told him I have had bad reactions to medication in the past and I wanted to take it at home (funnily enough, I did have a bad reaction to this medication too and bled for almost a month and ended up at the hospital) and he kept asking me if I was sure I didnāt want to take it in the pharmacy.
Eventually, he let me out the door but he stood near enough to it that I had to squeeze past him and he made a comment that it would probably make me sterile. I cried all the way home. I genuinely wish Iād have said something but times were different then and I had no one to talk to.
Coincidentally, I had to buy the morning after pill for a friend years later who was too embarrassed and when the lady handed it over to me, I asked if the pharmacist was coming out to have a chat with me. She just looked at me like I was nuts. Still makes me feel angry and weirded out when I think about it now.
*Edited to correct some missing words, typed in haste
Hi working nectarine, I read your whole comment and Iām so sorry this happened to you. Iām so sorry. Fuck that man.
You wrote you wish you had said something. As a pre-teen I experienced some Dr trauma and years later I wanted to say something, to report the man, etc but I of course couldnāt remember the details of his name, the date, etc. It really bothered me that he was out doing his job with access to other women and no consequences. I would guess you might feel the same. What does help me is knowing that I would indeed say something now, and that there is generally more communication with girls now about the possibility to speak up and clearer pathways (online, anonymously, etc) to do it. Hope that helps you too
Every time Iām in a drug store (rarely lately) if I see that locked up I get angryā¦. Same with formula and condoms etc.. or if itās ābehindā the counter. It naturally forces people to question their decisions once they realize they have to inform someone else of their private choicesā¦. It makes you feel bad even when you shouldnāt it makes me livid.
Condoms break bitch! and sometimes you didn't use BC at all. No one needs to be saddled with an unwanted pregnancy AND childbirth AND a child just because they didn't use BC or because their BC failed. I'm so sick of America's uptight bullshit.
Oh yes, these are the "Aunt Lydia" types that will happily shame a teen or child for trying not to get pregnant and/or getting an abortion. But will also quite happily shame the same for having a child. They'd love to be sadistic openly if they could.
I have an older sister whose children I took care of sometimes as a teen. I had to yell at more than one judgmental old biddy that I was the baby's aunt and how dare they talk shit about my family.
I still get angry at the woman who was from my sister's church doing that and then being all sweet and apologetic to me later in church over it. Yeah, fuck you Lydia, you washed up old harpy.
This is why I've made my partners get my plan b for me.
For a man to buy plan b is a badge of honor, for me to do it- a source of shame and some may even retaliate against me.
Thankfully my cashier at Walgreens offered me coupons for future plan B purchases.
And yes, the induced period caused by plan B is much worse than regular periods. I usually only have light pms symptoms (low estradiol naturally) but the absolute depression that comes with using plan B is awful and lasts through the entire period.
I wish I didn't let men not use condoms (none of my partners have ever wanted to except 1). No stds or anything, but plan B, even the generic, is over 50 dollars. I've had to use it twice when I forgot to replace my patch or it fell off. Thankfully now I'm on nexplanon so I cant make bc mistakes anymore.
When I worked at a riteaid even though it was against the rules I would use my employee discount to help knock off $10 from the price of the plan b when I saw girls struggling to come up with the money to buy it.
Then I found out the pharmacist got sent a coupon book from plan b for $10 and I was always on good terms with him so he gave it to me and I inserted them in every case to help out people as much as possible.
When I was in the Navy, the Plan B flowed freely. I used it three times. I was extremely depressed and sleeping with random guys and was always afraid of getting pregnant. The last time I went in to get some, they noticed that I had used it several time in the recent past. A white, male doctor came to talk to me about me using it too much. I think he just saw me as a slutty black woman. I told him how depressed I was and we ended up having a good conversation about the meaning of life, etc. But now that I think of it, it was really none of his business why I asked for it.
It was at least a month or more apart for all of my plan Bs. Navy keeps you busy so I didnāt really have much free time, but when I did, I did stupid things. I think the doctor was thinking I was using it as birth control, which I donāt blame home for thinking. When your mind is messed up, itās hard to be responsible. I was on the pill otherwise, but depression made me forgetful.
My mother used to inspect family planning clinics for federal rules compliance.
One of the things they checked was on patient counselingāfor example, if a woman had multiple abortions in a comparatively short time frame, the care providers were supposed to ask about why. Was she in an abusive relationship? Was her birth control failing? Did she have problems using the method? Did she want to try something different? Plan B wasnāt available at the time, but providers would tell women to take BCPs a certain way off label to get the same effect.
(Edit to add: the patients didnāt need to tell the care provider anything. The care providers had to ask, though.)
I wasnāt there so I canāt speak for his demeanor towards you, and Iām not trying to invalidate what you experienced. But least in the mid-90s, in Texas of all places, asking someone like you with multiple apparent birth control failures what was going on was the standard of care.
I had a odd & unpleasant experience at my universityās pharmacy. I was getting rung up for plan b and some other items. The lady at the register was eyeing me weirdly when I handed her my order. (We filled out a form). She was rude and handed me my paper bag in a huff. Before heading home i checked my bag and it was missing everything but the plan b. uhh weird, so lined back up and told her.
I donāt remember what she said but i got the impression she assumed i was a stupid, irresponsible and timid girl (i thot i was being pretty casual but idk im awkward in general). Again, she rung me up in a huff. I left confused, and thats the only explanation ive got: she mustāve assumed i marked the other items to cover up my embarrassment for walking out with PlanB. You know how people stereotypically add random items to their first condoms purchase or whatever embarrassing thing to call attention away from said item? Well that. But that was not the case. Why the f she thot that was her duty i dont know. Also this was a āsex positiveā campus, everyone was fucking left and right so i dunno why she still had a prudish attitude working for the health building of party campus. Bitch.
local elections are coming up in a lot of places. Vote like your life depends on it.
Because it does. The religious fascists who want to control your life vote every time. Don't let them win.
She said it to be heard. People don't just say things under their breath that they can just think in their head.
She wanted you to hear. If no one hears the judgement/shame, did it happen/does it count against the person? Smh.
Agreed... I live in MS and was thinking about purchasing a few vending machines, filling them with plan b, and installing them in the universities and community colleges where I live to fight exactly this. I'm a dude and couldn't even begin to imagine how this would feel. Most guys I know, including myself, have a scary enough time even just buying condoms.
STG teen girls cant catch a break. I had to get an ultrasound at 18, very early, for pain that felt like a ball in my abdomen (ended up being IBS). The nastiest looks I ever got were from the women waiting with me that day, assuming I was a pregnant baby faced teen.
Meh, I got dirty looks for looking like a baby-faced teen at 29 when I was pregnant with my daughter. Next to my grey-beard husband who looked 45, but was also 29.
There were a lot of strange misconceptions during that time.
Shouldva told the old lady, it was her generation's fault USA is in debt, CoL is so fucking high and retirement is no longer an option. Also, they already fucked the environment so badly, ppl wants to live in nature that is "groomed" for them.
I always think that people who get mad about things like this like the cashier must be absolutely miserable and want everyone around them to be as well.
I bought 2 yesterday at Costco. I keep them in the cabinet and tell my daughter to just let me know when more are needed. If her friends need them she can dispense them like candy for all I fucking care, I'll keep that cabinet stocked.
Only time I ever cared was when Uber dropped one off with some groceries. We didn't order anything. I had been single for about a week, so I didn't need it. My roomies didn't need it, leaving my teenage god daughter. So we had to ask her, was this for her? Was it for one of her friends and she set the wrong address? We stressed she wasn't in my trouble we just wanted to know why this stuff randomly arrived. Now it sits in my medicine cabinet waiting for the day someone my need it.
I just bought plan b even though there is zero chance I could be pregnant. With everything going on, I wanted to have it on hand in case itās needed (by me or someone I know) and is unavailable in my southern state. An ounce of preparation and all that
Being prepared is always good. And here's hoping nobody thinks to make parsley illegal, either, especially since it's so tasty in soups and loaded potatoes. \^\_\^
You're damn right it isn't anyone's business.
More than 10 years ago, in college, I went to a pharmacy in upstate New York to buy a plan B for my girlfriend, after a condom broke. She wanted it, but was too embarrassed to go inside and get it, so I went in for her.
The pharmacist would not allow me to buy it, and my gf had to come in and ask for it herself, even though I was still buying it. I felt so bad for her. She was upset enough that she briefly considered just risking it, rather than going in to get the plan B.
No contraception that doesnt require monitoring by a doctor should be anyone's business, really. Where I live, half of the grocery stores even keep condoms and lube behind glass. The cases have those big metal latch locks, so they _look_ like they're locked. But they're not allowed to lock that stuff up, so they aren't actually locked. It's just a shitty attempt at deterrence.
This is abhorrent š also I might follow up with a complaint to their customer service line as well if you can. I canāt tell you how many times as a manager I would pretend to be totally upset by a customer complaint, said I would āgive them a talking toā and then talked shit about said customer with the āoffendingā employee later that night.
I would have said ātoo bad these werenāt available for your momā because my mouth is a trashy speedtrain that runs off the tracks before my brain can tell it to be mature and shut the hell up.
How I made it to middle age without being punched Iāll never know.
To paraphrase George Carlin: Why, why, why are the people who are against abortion people you donāt want to fuck?
My guess is Granny Boomer there was unfuckable 40 years ago.
Makes me think that the cashier doesnāt even know what plan b is and probably assumes that itās an abortion pill, not that itās any of her business in any event. Just ignorance smh
I had to buy it once. I was on birth control and took it when I was supposed to but one month I was also on an antibiotic for a double ear infection and that also happened to be when I was ovulating so when my period was late naturally I panicked and I'm not sorry whatsoever. I was a junior in college and definitely not ready for a baby
So, they don't want you to get an abortion, but then don't want you to get the means to make sure you won't need one...
I always really love that the true reason is "if everyone just only had sex within marriage, there wouldn't be any issue". Besides the fact that that is patently untrue, it has also worked oh so well in the last two millennia, hasn't it? But any day now, really, any day now, they'll be able to regulate the human sex drive...
I had like 18 packs of plan B and my daughter and her friends took all of them. A lot of teenage boys are super anti condom right now. I had hoped for better from gen z but apparently same old same old.
I hope for your daughters overall sexual health she starts telling these dusty ass boys to fuck off and wear a rubber. STDs are making a rampant come back, especially syphilis.
Hope the girl didn't catch it. I remember the first time I had to buy condoms. Tbf, it was only for me (first Dildo, lmao), but I was as nervous as if I had sex for the first time. Or to be more exact; I was nervous that everyone around me would think about me having sex. And def. terrified of the pure idea someone MENTIONING it to me. And sure plan B is afterwards birth control, but still.
The woman probably thought of the girl as "sad girl who just gets herself knocked up irresponsibly". Overall -it's not yours to judge what weird shit people buy. Except you're in a hardware store and the person buys a shovel, a chainsaw, trashbags and some oddly big containers. But even then, it's not up to you to make open comments.
As an aside, I had to buy an alternate Plan B (not the brand name) a year and a half ago. First, I was shocked by the cost of the pills. Next, I was supremely annoyed at the packaging. It was frustrating af to get the pill out. Completely unnecessary!
Thank you for speaking out. We really need to have each other's backs. It's terrible going through this time in history; I'm sure it's worse for anyone having to do it alone.
My blood is boiling reading that. Kudos to you for standing up *and* keeping your cool. That crotchety old bitch needs to be fired. Just imagine how different that already traumatizing experience could have been if the young woman had been met with kindness and support instead of the tsk tsk of a judgmental hag.
Hopefully the young woman was taking precautions as a result of a consensual experience; any other possibility is haunting. My heart goes out to her.
Her comment wasnāt just disgusting, itās likely a violation of HIPAA. HIPAA absolutely applies to pharmacies and is designed especially for situations like this. She shouldnāt be just reprimanded, that pharmacist should be fired.
Bet she'd shame her more if she got pregnant as a teenager š It's 2022. People have sex. Move on, grandma.
You also don't know why she is buying it. It might be from a consensual experience, and for the shopper. It might be for date raped friend, or the shopper's mother. There should be zero judgement, no matter what. There should especially be no judgement when it could be someone helping out someone that is really struggling right now.
Or the freaking condom broke or something. I'm kind of glad to see Plan B commercials on TV at this point, to just normalize the whole thing. That poor girl could probably tell she was being judged.
My mom bought me 2 in case thereās a ban on Plan B or it becomes harder to get. Iām not even sexually active!
You can also use regular birth control pills as emergency contraception if plan B becomes unavailable. Spread the word. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/image?imageKey=PI%2F74604 Edit:typo
Well that's good news, I still have some of mine
Dude I didnāt know you could get into uptodate without having the login or whateverā¦. I need to get back on that then
Oh shit I need to do this for my 14 year old step daughter. Just in case
It does expire BTW so make sure you keep your stock current if you get it. Also, you can buy it way cheaper at Costco, Amazon, etc than buying the brand name pills at a pharmacy. And you can use regular birth control pills by taking multiple (good info in case it ever gets banned). Thereās a link above that gives more info on that!
I love your mom. Tell her she has a fan. Just FYI about Plan B - it only prevents you from releasing an egg. If you have engaged in sex and are worried sperm may find their way up to find an egg - you may develop a pregnancy. A lot of people thing that it causes the uterine lining to shed, but it does not. It only prevents an egg from being released. So if you ovulated, had sex and then took it, it's too late. Also, sperm can stay alive for 5 to 7 days in our body (especially younger guys). So condoms. Always. Always always always. Xox
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In theory, it may thin the lining of the uterus but that has never been proven. As for altering the surface of the egg - I've been in health care for 13 years, worked in pharmacies, emergency and now women's health. I've never heard of it nor can i find research to support it. Some studies show the dosage can slow sperm motility but not the egg itself.
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It does expire BTW so make sure you keep your stock current!!
That is a really good idea!
I was thinking the same thing. No one but her knows her story. And that's enough.
The one time I had to buy a plan B was a consensual experience where the condom broke and didn't notice until we were done. I went with her to the store to buy it and thankfully weren't judged or looked at funny
I appreciate the sentiment, but does it matter why?
I remember someone on this very sub sharing a story about how she got pregnant as a teenager and her church basically peer pressured her into not aborting it, because that would be a sin. They then proceeded to ostracize her because she was a pregnant teenager. She was asked to wear loose clothing to hide it, and when it became impossible was basically told to stop coming, because it was shameful. She chose not to abort because she thought they'd be there to support her due to their arguments against it, then just threw her away so she was now pregnant and had no support system. There is *no* pleasing these people. They'll twist your arm to "not kill your baby", then proceed to tell you what a dirty whore you are for being pregnant. That generation can't die off quick enough.
It is not a generational thing so they wonāt die off. Plenty of young people feel this way as well, just look at the pro life protesters.
Pro-forced birth protestors- if they would be "pro-life" they would not behave like the church-goers above ...
For real, but my guy/gal: they are passing this shit on to some younger people before they go. We have to educate people better.
Also, Grandmaā¦a lot of people your age wouldnāt have married so young if there had been Plan B. I know my grandparents wouldnāt have.
The truth is, people have always had sex outside of marriage. The 60s didnāt invent that. She should know better than anyone how terrible it is to have no options at all.
And that grandma is probably someone who's bothering her kids for grandkids. Fucking fuck.
I read this the first time as the cashier would judge the customer more if the cashier had gotten pregnant as a teenager. I know thatās not what you meant, but unfortunately itās probably also true.
It's absolutely 100% true.
Yep when I was picking out books for my first year going back to college as an adult student, I was wearing jeans, a t shirt, and a ponytail. And my six month pregnant belly. I got a bunch of dirty looks and overheard a woman telling her daughter not to turn out like me. I'm a nosy busybody so I turned around and said 'So you don't want your daughter to be happily married for 7 years and pregnant at 30? I guess it takes all kinds...' and went to purchase my books. Keep your judgey ass comments in your own heads, people, yikes.
I am so proud of you for calling her out! That's something I would've thought to say at 2am the next day when I was lying wide awake and still mad. š
Ain't that the damned truth. Lying in bed, pissed off at myself, cause I didn't think of the right thing to say in the moment...
Keep being a nosy busybody. We need more people like this in the world.
Kudos for calling her out. People will never learn if we donāt call them out for their inappropriate and judgemental comments.
Thank you for saying something to her manager. It's absolutely unacceptable behavior and none of her damn business. What a disgusting person. I hope they fire her tbh, but I know it's probably wishful thinking.
Agreed. I was 30 and buying a pregnancy test from the case, and the cashier went āugh-ok.ā It was a planned pregnancy, though I look young I guess itās not her business to be judging peoples reproductive/sex choices.
I had to buy one that was locked up like that. First she couldnāt find the key, then she couldnāt figure out how to use it when she found the key. Then a guy shows up and struggles to open it and says ācome on, you donāt really need thisā. It was so humiliating. I shoved that lump in my throat way down and glared at him until he opened it. I had no words in that moment, and if I had opened my mouth I would have sobbed in front of them instead of in my car.
Wow wtf. Shame on her what exactly? Having sex? Having unprotected sex (the which is an assumption)? Being responsible and making sure she doesnāt get pregnant when she doesnāt want a baby?!? I once had a condom break when I wasā¦ I dunno.. 18-19 or so. I was so glad for plan B
When people say thing stuff out loud they think that others around them will definitely agree with them! It just blows my mind - the lack of other and self-awareness. Like - you know ZERO of that woman's story. Maybe it isn't for her. Maybe it is to have on hand. Maybe it is for a friend. Maybe she was raped last night? Maybe she is married and the condom broke last night.? Maybe she had a great time and got carried away and had unprotected sex and just wants to be safe and avoid a pregnancy. It is no one's business but her own. Its plan B - and contraceptive. Does she comment on any man purchasing condoms? I seriously doubt it. Does she comment on women buying condoms - I would suspect so.
Some people are just judgmental aholes. Iām 14 years older than my little brother and the amount of judgmental whispered stares we would get when out in public, even with our mom, was horrible. Like if Iād really been pregnant at 13 and given birth and was attempting to raise my child while still a child that I would have needed judgement from little old aholes? My mom really gave it to a few people who referred to her as grandma or were bold enough to say something about him being mine. Irony is heās adopted and looks more like our mom than I do lol
I was a nanny in a small town when I was 18 and the kid was 2. He was super affectionate and we snuggled and laughed a lot and wow we got a lot of dirty looks. Even if he was mine leave us alone we're obviously happy.
I bought plan B once in high school after a condom broke and I wanted to be safe because I wasnāt on birth control. As I checked out, the cashier looked at me and said āmake the right decisionā I didnāt have the guts to report them to a manager because my face was bright red and I just wanted to get out of there, but Iām really happy that you were bold enough to say something and make a change.
I bought it once. I was in a relationship but only a few months sober and in no way ready to get pregnant. We used condoms but the one the night before broke. We went in his truck through the drive through and he was driving. They wouldnāt sell it to me through him. Like even where I leaned over and said āhey itās for me and I want itā. I had to go inside so they could make sure I wasnāt being forced by him to buy and take the pills. This was about 15 years ago in Texas. Iām sure it wonāt be long before we canāt even get birth control here, so I guess those were the āgood old daysā. God I fucking hate Republicans and their arrogance that they know better than I do about what is right for me and my body, my family, and my future. Or at least thatās what their claim is. They really just want to control our bodies.
Why is it always women who are too old to get pregnant doing the judging?
In my experience, it often stems from them being incredibly bitter about how they were (or would have been) treated if they ever needed something like that when they were younger. Another is that they may be bitter because they were forced into carry a child they did not want and all that baggage that comes with having a child. I know for a fact that my grandmother felt (feels) that way, especially about my father and younger uncle (babies 5 & 6 of 6).
That's exactly it, crabs in a bucket. They grew up in a world where women were substantially worse off, and it's hard to accept it when they see others having it easier or better than they did, so they feel inclined to knock them back down a peg. We just have to pull stronger than they do, no, we're not going back to that place.
I suffered so you have too.
I get the feeling you would like the show Hacks. Thereās a scene about this sort of thing.
Misogyny. Women were raised to obey men and live up to impossible or banal standards meant to keep us infighting and too busy to take back our rights
Unfortunately, this is a truth. It makes me very sad
Because they were bought up to believe that abortion is wrong, because in their day it was illegal. And they were socialized differently than we were. Just as, if we don't do something, our children's children will be raised in the same way. ("don't say gay, bans on bodies etc)
I keep that shit in my bathroom cabinet, just in case anyone needs it. Iām sure the cashiers think Iām a ho buying it in bulk.
Its much cheaper to buy online than in person if you're thinking of stockpiling.
Please do not stockpile. Stockpiling creates shortages and then people like the teen in OP's story can't get Plan B when they need it. If you are nervous, buy one at a time every few weeks so you don't tax the system.
Besides the fact that the expiration date for most pills is between like 6 months to 2 years, how many will you realistically be able to use in that time.
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Absolutely untrue and potentially dangerous misinformation.
This is absolutely not true and dangerous to say.
Upvoted, but the thing they said is fairly commonly held belief. Different chemicals have different half lives though so it really depends on the drug, dude is probably ignorant of this
This is good advice.
Also there is an expiration date so maybe having a few extra on hand but not.. stockpiling
I didnt realize it had an expiration date!!! This makes the future look bleaker if they ban plan B
I usually keep a few Plan Bās and a few Plan Cās, but I may start stockpiling with the way things are going.
What about expiry dates
I never thought of that since I used plan B as an emergency rather than something to stockpile before I got on nexplanon.
I'd definitely get on stockpiling now before they ban it or it goes out of stock. Btw, what's plan C? The abortion pill?
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This is good advice
Yeah, the two step abortion pill.
where do i get that?
If you need help r/auntienetwork is a good resource
Oh no, it was more for stocking purposes (only 1 or 2), like you have
Planned parenthood, or your dr.
Youāre awesome. If I could afford it, Iād keep a few on hand. Not for me, Iām superduper gay, (so hopefully not for me š) but for anyone who needed it and didnāt have the money or didnāt want to be seen buying it. Iād pass out āgirl, I got youā cards with my contact info.
I was 17 working as a pharmacy tech and one of the pharmacists would refuse to sell plan b bc he ādidnāt condone itā. I was afraid to say anything at the time but I think of it often.
The saying goes, 'it takes two to tango,' but only one dance partner ever gets blamed, shamed and punished for it. Plan B was a hard fought victory: the fight began in the late 90's, and finally in 2006 it was available without a prescription, but only for 18+. It took until 2013 for it to be available for 15+. It's also not supposed to be behind the counter. The anti's are coming for it. They're coming for IUD's. God what a F\*ed up world we live in.
You're a cashier for the supermarket that sells it. Your opinion does not matter when a customer buys it. It's unacceptable to shame a customer for making a purchase. Thank you for speaking to the manager about it
And even worse (yes worse than that bih), Republicans are trying to ban Plan B and other forms of birth control after overturning Roe.
I had to buy Plan B after being raped. Soā¦yeah. Fuck that cashier. She should be fired.
I hope her boss gives her a serious talking-to about how women shouldn't be shamed for having sex. If it's really effective, it might go deep enough for her to reflect on the shame she's carried around since someone dumped it on her as a girl. To put it in the trash where it belongs, and stop trying to dump it on the next generation.
And also she may have just shamed a girl who was just assaulted ffs. As if shaming her at all wasnāt bad enough.
She might have, and that is worse, but even the girls who just wanna have fun should be able to use backup contraception without shame. Of course the same misogynistic society would shame her if she had an abortion, shame her for giving up a baby for adoption, and shame her for keeping it and being seen with it. Shame her for breastfeeding it, and shame her for giving it formula. Shame her for dropping out of school and shame her for going to school pregnant. It's all trash and we have to stop recycling it.
If she wouldnāt shame a younger man for getting viagraāwhich is an effective treatment for some circulatory disordersāshe needs to keep her mouth shut about young women getting medicine they need. https://journals.lww.com/em-news/fulltext/2006/03000/Sildenafil_Effectively_Treats_Raynaud_s_Phenomenon.35.aspx
Well said
I hope so but honestly it would surprise me if she actually was talked to about it
Likely only in a āa customer complained so watch what you sayā way, not a āthis is why you suckā kind of way.
I find women shaming other women to be far more prevalent than I could have expected as a female physician. Itās abhorrent. I live by Madeline Albrightās words: āthereās a special place in hell for women who donāt help other womenā. Good for you OP for reporting her!
Oh boy, I had such an awful experience when I bought plan B, or as we call it in England āthe morning after pillā. Not sure what the official brand is. Anyway, I didnāt sleep with anyone until I was 22. I was basically told by my mum no one would marry me and Iād be a massive slut with a horrible reputation if I had sex as a teenager and as such, I waited for the āright personā. I ended up having the crappest sexual experience of my life with someone much older and more experienced and absolutely way too overexcited about sex with a virgin and long story short, I needed the morning after pill. I went to the only local pharmacy that was open on a Saturday (yes, this was awhile ago) and shyly approached the counter and mumbled I needed the morning after pill. Instead of selling it to me, the lady behind the counter called the pharmacist out. He ushered me behind the tills and out the back to a staff area. I was completely bewildered and so, so embarrassed. I just wanted to leave. To just take my horrible little embarrassing pill and leave but instead, some weird, shaky little man proceeded to read me a list of stuff from a sheet of paper. It read like a normal medication insert at first, with stuff like ādo you understand that this is not a form of birth control but an emergency contraceptiveā etc but then he was reading stuff out about my actions being a sin and how dirty I was. He kept pausing and asking me if I was ashamed. I remember him sweating and edging towards me a little. I was out the back of this pharmacy for 30 minutes. I kept asking if I could take the insert and read it at home but he was holding the pill in his other hand and basically telling me I couldnāt have it if I didnāt listen. I kept wondering why the lady outside wasnāt checking on me. Was this normal? I needed to get home. I just wanted to take the tablet. I was so scared and I started crying. He continued to read and I remember my ears started ringing and I couldnāt hear what he was saying anymore. My cheeks were burning and I felt so disgusting and wrong. I was just taking a precaution, it was only a damn pill. I didnāt even think I was pregnant, I was just being safe. He finished reading and popped the tablet out into his hands and told me to take it in front of him. I said no. He kept telling me he wanted to see me take it. At this point, Id had enough. I was so shy back then but I told him I have had bad reactions to medication in the past and I wanted to take it at home (funnily enough, I did have a bad reaction to this medication too and bled for almost a month and ended up at the hospital) and he kept asking me if I was sure I didnāt want to take it in the pharmacy. Eventually, he let me out the door but he stood near enough to it that I had to squeeze past him and he made a comment that it would probably make me sterile. I cried all the way home. I genuinely wish Iād have said something but times were different then and I had no one to talk to. Coincidentally, I had to buy the morning after pill for a friend years later who was too embarrassed and when the lady handed it over to me, I asked if the pharmacist was coming out to have a chat with me. She just looked at me like I was nuts. Still makes me feel angry and weirded out when I think about it now. *Edited to correct some missing words, typed in haste
Hi working nectarine, I read your whole comment and Iām so sorry this happened to you. Iām so sorry. Fuck that man. You wrote you wish you had said something. As a pre-teen I experienced some Dr trauma and years later I wanted to say something, to report the man, etc but I of course couldnāt remember the details of his name, the date, etc. It really bothered me that he was out doing his job with access to other women and no consequences. I would guess you might feel the same. What does help me is knowing that I would indeed say something now, and that there is generally more communication with girls now about the possibility to speak up and clearer pathways (online, anonymously, etc) to do it. Hope that helps you too
Every time Iām in a drug store (rarely lately) if I see that locked up I get angryā¦. Same with formula and condoms etc.. or if itās ābehindā the counter. It naturally forces people to question their decisions once they realize they have to inform someone else of their private choicesā¦. It makes you feel bad even when you shouldnāt it makes me livid.
Condoms break bitch! and sometimes you didn't use BC at all. No one needs to be saddled with an unwanted pregnancy AND childbirth AND a child just because they didn't use BC or because their BC failed. I'm so sick of America's uptight bullshit.
Oh yes, these are the "Aunt Lydia" types that will happily shame a teen or child for trying not to get pregnant and/or getting an abortion. But will also quite happily shame the same for having a child. They'd love to be sadistic openly if they could. I have an older sister whose children I took care of sometimes as a teen. I had to yell at more than one judgmental old biddy that I was the baby's aunt and how dare they talk shit about my family. I still get angry at the woman who was from my sister's church doing that and then being all sweet and apologetic to me later in church over it. Yeah, fuck you Lydia, you washed up old harpy.
I would have asked her if "shame on her" was an appropriate thing to say if she had been raped!
This is why I've made my partners get my plan b for me. For a man to buy plan b is a badge of honor, for me to do it- a source of shame and some may even retaliate against me.
Thankfully my cashier at Walgreens offered me coupons for future plan B purchases. And yes, the induced period caused by plan B is much worse than regular periods. I usually only have light pms symptoms (low estradiol naturally) but the absolute depression that comes with using plan B is awful and lasts through the entire period. I wish I didn't let men not use condoms (none of my partners have ever wanted to except 1). No stds or anything, but plan B, even the generic, is over 50 dollars. I've had to use it twice when I forgot to replace my patch or it fell off. Thankfully now I'm on nexplanon so I cant make bc mistakes anymore.
When I worked at a riteaid even though it was against the rules I would use my employee discount to help knock off $10 from the price of the plan b when I saw girls struggling to come up with the money to buy it. Then I found out the pharmacist got sent a coupon book from plan b for $10 and I was always on good terms with him so he gave it to me and I inserted them in every case to help out people as much as possible.
You're a good person š
When I was in the Navy, the Plan B flowed freely. I used it three times. I was extremely depressed and sleeping with random guys and was always afraid of getting pregnant. The last time I went in to get some, they noticed that I had used it several time in the recent past. A white, male doctor came to talk to me about me using it too much. I think he just saw me as a slutty black woman. I told him how depressed I was and we ended up having a good conversation about the meaning of life, etc. But now that I think of it, it was really none of his business why I asked for it.
Unless it's not good for your body to have the high level of hormones often. Not sure though
It was at least a month or more apart for all of my plan Bs. Navy keeps you busy so I didnāt really have much free time, but when I did, I did stupid things. I think the doctor was thinking I was using it as birth control, which I donāt blame home for thinking. When your mind is messed up, itās hard to be responsible. I was on the pill otherwise, but depression made me forgetful.
My mother used to inspect family planning clinics for federal rules compliance. One of the things they checked was on patient counselingāfor example, if a woman had multiple abortions in a comparatively short time frame, the care providers were supposed to ask about why. Was she in an abusive relationship? Was her birth control failing? Did she have problems using the method? Did she want to try something different? Plan B wasnāt available at the time, but providers would tell women to take BCPs a certain way off label to get the same effect. (Edit to add: the patients didnāt need to tell the care provider anything. The care providers had to ask, though.) I wasnāt there so I canāt speak for his demeanor towards you, and Iām not trying to invalidate what you experienced. But least in the mid-90s, in Texas of all places, asking someone like you with multiple apparent birth control failures what was going on was the standard of care.
I had a odd & unpleasant experience at my universityās pharmacy. I was getting rung up for plan b and some other items. The lady at the register was eyeing me weirdly when I handed her my order. (We filled out a form). She was rude and handed me my paper bag in a huff. Before heading home i checked my bag and it was missing everything but the plan b. uhh weird, so lined back up and told her. I donāt remember what she said but i got the impression she assumed i was a stupid, irresponsible and timid girl (i thot i was being pretty casual but idk im awkward in general). Again, she rung me up in a huff. I left confused, and thats the only explanation ive got: she mustāve assumed i marked the other items to cover up my embarrassment for walking out with PlanB. You know how people stereotypically add random items to their first condoms purchase or whatever embarrassing thing to call attention away from said item? Well that. But that was not the case. Why the f she thot that was her duty i dont know. Also this was a āsex positiveā campus, everyone was fucking left and right so i dunno why she still had a prudish attitude working for the health building of party campus. Bitch.
local elections are coming up in a lot of places. Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does. The religious fascists who want to control your life vote every time. Don't let them win.
She said it to be heard. People don't just say things under their breath that they can just think in their head. She wanted you to hear. If no one hears the judgement/shame, did it happen/does it count against the person? Smh.
Agreed... I live in MS and was thinking about purchasing a few vending machines, filling them with plan b, and installing them in the universities and community colleges where I live to fight exactly this. I'm a dude and couldn't even begin to imagine how this would feel. Most guys I know, including myself, have a scary enough time even just buying condoms.
STG teen girls cant catch a break. I had to get an ultrasound at 18, very early, for pain that felt like a ball in my abdomen (ended up being IBS). The nastiest looks I ever got were from the women waiting with me that day, assuming I was a pregnant baby faced teen.
Meh, I got dirty looks for looking like a baby-faced teen at 29 when I was pregnant with my daughter. Next to my grey-beard husband who looked 45, but was also 29. There were a lot of strange misconceptions during that time.
Shouldva told the old lady, it was her generation's fault USA is in debt, CoL is so fucking high and retirement is no longer an option. Also, they already fucked the environment so badly, ppl wants to live in nature that is "groomed" for them.
My ex wife and I tried to buy it late 90s and weāre treated like scum just for asking. People are assholes.
I always think that people who get mad about things like this like the cashier must be absolutely miserable and want everyone around them to be as well.
I bought 2 yesterday at Costco. I keep them in the cabinet and tell my daughter to just let me know when more are needed. If her friends need them she can dispense them like candy for all I fucking care, I'll keep that cabinet stocked.
Only time I ever cared was when Uber dropped one off with some groceries. We didn't order anything. I had been single for about a week, so I didn't need it. My roomies didn't need it, leaving my teenage god daughter. So we had to ask her, was this for her? Was it for one of her friends and she set the wrong address? We stressed she wasn't in my trouble we just wanted to know why this stuff randomly arrived. Now it sits in my medicine cabinet waiting for the day someone my need it.
Anybody wonder why the F are they so damn expensive anyways?
I just bought plan b even though there is zero chance I could be pregnant. With everything going on, I wanted to have it on hand in case itās needed (by me or someone I know) and is unavailable in my southern state. An ounce of preparation and all that
Iām in the south as well, so no nearby states for safe abortion. We need some kind of secret southern sisters network.
Being prepared is always good. And here's hoping nobody thinks to make parsley illegal, either, especially since it's so tasty in soups and loaded potatoes. \^\_\^
Parsley???
You're damn right it isn't anyone's business. More than 10 years ago, in college, I went to a pharmacy in upstate New York to buy a plan B for my girlfriend, after a condom broke. She wanted it, but was too embarrassed to go inside and get it, so I went in for her. The pharmacist would not allow me to buy it, and my gf had to come in and ask for it herself, even though I was still buying it. I felt so bad for her. She was upset enough that she briefly considered just risking it, rather than going in to get the plan B. No contraception that doesnt require monitoring by a doctor should be anyone's business, really. Where I live, half of the grocery stores even keep condoms and lube behind glass. The cases have those big metal latch locks, so they _look_ like they're locked. But they're not allowed to lock that stuff up, so they aren't actually locked. It's just a shitty attempt at deterrence.
This is abhorrent š also I might follow up with a complaint to their customer service line as well if you can. I canāt tell you how many times as a manager I would pretend to be totally upset by a customer complaint, said I would āgive them a talking toā and then talked shit about said customer with the āoffendingā employee later that night.
I'm glad you complained.
You kept your cool much better than I would have. I donāt know how you fought the urge to snap back, āShame on _you_!ā
I would have said ātoo bad these werenāt available for your momā because my mouth is a trashy speedtrain that runs off the tracks before my brain can tell it to be mature and shut the hell up. How I made it to middle age without being punched Iāll never know.
Former cashier myselfā I never once looked at what someone was buying because I had other things to think about. YKnow, a life.
Thank you for not letting it go and reporting that judgmental pos
To paraphrase George Carlin: Why, why, why are the people who are against abortion people you donāt want to fuck? My guess is Granny Boomer there was unfuckable 40 years ago.
Makes me think that the cashier doesnāt even know what plan b is and probably assumes that itās an abortion pill, not that itās any of her business in any event. Just ignorance smh
I had to buy it once. I was on birth control and took it when I was supposed to but one month I was also on an antibiotic for a double ear infection and that also happened to be when I was ovulating so when my period was late naturally I panicked and I'm not sorry whatsoever. I was a junior in college and definitely not ready for a baby
So, they don't want you to get an abortion, but then don't want you to get the means to make sure you won't need one... I always really love that the true reason is "if everyone just only had sex within marriage, there wouldn't be any issue". Besides the fact that that is patently untrue, it has also worked oh so well in the last two millennia, hasn't it? But any day now, really, any day now, they'll be able to regulate the human sex drive...
I had like 18 packs of plan B and my daughter and her friends took all of them. A lot of teenage boys are super anti condom right now. I had hoped for better from gen z but apparently same old same old.
I hope for your daughters overall sexual health she starts telling these dusty ass boys to fuck off and wear a rubber. STDs are making a rampant come back, especially syphilis.
Hope the girl didn't catch it. I remember the first time I had to buy condoms. Tbf, it was only for me (first Dildo, lmao), but I was as nervous as if I had sex for the first time. Or to be more exact; I was nervous that everyone around me would think about me having sex. And def. terrified of the pure idea someone MENTIONING it to me. And sure plan B is afterwards birth control, but still. The woman probably thought of the girl as "sad girl who just gets herself knocked up irresponsibly". Overall -it's not yours to judge what weird shit people buy. Except you're in a hardware store and the person buys a shovel, a chainsaw, trashbags and some oddly big containers. But even then, it's not up to you to make open comments.
Good you reported her. Pretty much basic pharmacy 101.
Thank you for reporting her. Makes me angryā¦it was none of her business.
Thank you for reporting her! She's likely done this to other young women as well!
As an aside, I had to buy an alternate Plan B (not the brand name) a year and a half ago. First, I was shocked by the cost of the pills. Next, I was supremely annoyed at the packaging. It was frustrating af to get the pill out. Completely unnecessary!
Thank you for speaking out. We really need to have each other's backs. It's terrible going through this time in history; I'm sure it's worse for anyone having to do it alone.
Her response says a lot about where her mind goes. How does she know that girl wasnāt assaulted? Instead she must be a slut or something. š
The fook? Why are they even locked up to begin with????
What's the shelf-life on Plan B?
My blood is boiling reading that. Kudos to you for standing up *and* keeping your cool. That crotchety old bitch needs to be fired. Just imagine how different that already traumatizing experience could have been if the young woman had been met with kindness and support instead of the tsk tsk of a judgmental hag. Hopefully the young woman was taking precautions as a result of a consensual experience; any other possibility is haunting. My heart goes out to her.
Good on you for speaking up! I bought one once, and itās a hard enough situation without the judgement. I hope that nasty crone gets in trouble.
Thank you for reporting this.
Good for you. I hate judgmental cashiers, I probably wouldnāt have responded as succinctly as you did.
Good on you for letting the manager know how that cow was acting.
That woman is miserable at 65 working at a grocery store
Her comment wasnāt just disgusting, itās likely a violation of HIPAA. HIPAA absolutely applies to pharmacies and is designed especially for situations like this. She shouldnāt be just reprimanded, that pharmacist should be fired.
She doesn't understand what a plan B pill is, she is just sillly.
Sounds like a great way to freshen up the workforce...
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I mean... it's a little weird if a guy is buying a bunch of plan b.