I’d been lucky to escape Dean’s and Hazel’s long-lasting, miserable virus until today. Now I too am miserable. But I braved the cold and the icy roads to make a run to the corner drugstore for needed supplies. As a mature mother of five, I know I shouldn’t feel embarrassed about buying a bunch of feminine sanitary products, but I was still rather wishing I could be invisible as I approached the lone register with its solitary male employee. Just then I glanced up and saw a sign with the store’s slogan: “With us, it’s personal.”
This did not make me feel better.
It’s a lousy slogan no matter what you’re selling, unless you are a mafia don. Better would be, “Don’t worry! At Rite-Aid, we’ll avoid eye contact.”
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I’m sorry you are feeling miserable. And have to buy lady part stuff.
Somehow it is just easier when the lady products are buried amongst a mountain of groceries and not quite so obvious.
LOL. Seriously bad slogan.
I remember when I bought feminine hygeine products in Egypt, the pharmacy had you tell the clerk what you wanted, and they fetched it for you. Umm, not so much when it “personal” – and they’re male. (And you don’t know the name of them). I think this should definitely be the new Rite – Aid slogan.
Interesting. I can’t remember having to jump through that hoop in Jordan, but I’m not sure whether that’s because you could get supplies in large Western-style grocery stores, or if it’s just that I was pregnant for most of my time in Amman.
I do remember Dean’s Arabic being tested by having to ask for an embarrassing product at a pharmacy, and I was proud of myself because when the pharmacist raised his eyebrows slightly to indicate they didn’t have that product, I figured out the guy was saying “No” before Dean did. (Not that I ever learned more than a few words and phrases, but I guess working with school kids taught me all about nonverbal ways to say no.)
Hilarious! Not the part about you having to go out in the cold . . . but the slogan part. 😉