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Mnemonic
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Date: February 18, 2011 05:56AM
I was at the grocery store a few nights ago, with my wife, picking up some necessities: milk, eggs, lunch meat. When we got up to the check stand I remembered the SI Swimsuit issue comes out mid-February so I ran over to the magazine rack to see if they had it. They did and I got one and took it up to where my wife was getting checked out. What happened next left both my wife and I speechless.
I put the magazine on the belt and the checker says "Ah, Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue", to which I reply, "yup, it's the only issue of Sports Illustrated I ever buy", to which she says "when my husband and son get theirs, I throw them in the trash."
I was dumbstruck and so was my wife. We finished paying for our groceries and headed out to the car. When we got outside my wife says to me "Can you believe that? I wanted to say 'well aren't you a prude'. How can you not like the SI swimsuit issue?" BTW: That's why I love my wife. We talked about how much we like the SI swimsuit issue and about the checker's comments the rest of the way home.
On a side note, most grocery stores here in Utah have cardboard or plastic covers over the "sexy" magazines like Cosmopolitan. I always take a magazine out and put it in front of the cover while I'm waiting in line.
It just amazes me that some people are so threatened by a beautiful woman's body or the words "Sex" or "Orgasm" that they have to cover them up. And if you're going to use the "but a little kid might see it" argument, that just doesn't fly with me. Kids are very good at overlooking words they don't understand, and heaven forbid a child should ask their parent "What does orgasm mean?"