Archive-name: Casual/sex-shop.txt Archive-title: At the Sex Shop ***************************************************************** Sorry folks, this is not no hot steamy sex story. This is my first posting. I just thought I'd relate an experience I had one day when I went to a sex shop. Even though I've been sexually active since I was 15, I'm still very timid when it comes to expressing my sexuality. Just so people can see that not everybody who reads this board is a Hugh Heifner type. Maybe you can even identify this story with your own period of sexual awkwardness. ***************************************************************** Wait, there's more! I saw one of those ADULT ONLY stores here in Kitchener and I thought about going in. (Well it was more of a wanting to get out of the cold thing, because I was walking around for about an hour looking for and trying to get to 2 different stylists that turned out to be closed). So there I am. I see the store across the street. I think; "Neat there's one of those sex shops, hey why don't I check it out, this days' been a total bust anyway, might as well get something out of it since I'm right hear." I stop, turn to cross the street, but then I hesitate. "No. I should just go to the bus stop and head back home or go to campus." I start walking again. I look up the road and realized there's no bus stop in sight. Actually I there's not even a bus stop that runs on this road and I'm walking in a direction away from home and away from the closest bust stop I know of. "Turn around fool!" I turn. "Last chance. The bus stop is all the way back there and you'll never be this close to an ADULTS ONLY store again without a reason not to just go inside and check it out" I stop, fixate on the store, as if I was trying to figure out if it was really and ADULTS ONLY store. "It looks closed, the way things are going today the I'll believe it if the whole town is closed" I start walking towards the bus stop. "You'll never know if it's open if you don't go up and check." I stop again, and again fixate on the store's front window. "Yep. It's definitely one of those ADULT ONLY stores. I don't see any people inside it must be closed. Of course you can't see any people inside the windows are all tinted so that people can't see inside. That's the way they all are. Oh. So lets go. Ok." I start jay-walking across the road, and get half way between the traffic, then I stop and panic. "I get it! The windows are all tinted up so no one can see what goes on in there. What is in there? What if people go in and are never seen again? What if I go in there and they kid-nap me, drug me up, and force me to perform in their sex movies? Hey, that wouldn't be so bad. I'll probably be pretty good at it. Come on, get real, nothing like that is going to happen." Now I look to the left and right of me, and realized I froze in the middle of the road. I'm starting to act like that girl in the story At The Mall. "That's it! No more hesitating. Your going in that store, your going now, and your not going to chicken out!" I walk. Across the street. Across the parking lot. Now I'm approaching the door. The whole time I'm scanning the front window to see if I can get any idea of what's inside before I have to comment to going in. I still have the escape option to veer off to the submarine shop beside it if I just can't go through with it. As I get closer, I notice I can see into the store through the mail drop slot, but the only thing I can see is the floor of the store. Now I'm committed, I'm too close to the door to make it look like I was going to any other place. I franticly look for a open or closed sign, but I can't find anything. Now I'm wishing the door to be locked. I pull the door, and its open. "Dam! You did it now. I was just bluffing. I didn't want to go in here. Now here we are in perverts heaven. How are we gonna get out of this one now? Turn around! Abort! Abort! I repeat abort the mission!" It's too late. Just the repetitive procedure of opening a door and entering it didn't allow me to do anything in between. Once it started, I couldn't stop, I didn't know how. I never opened a door half way before then turned around. Try it some day, once you start opening a door it takes a lot of mental effort to just let it go and turn around without entering. To make matters worst, the door hasn't even closed behind me and the clerk starts talking to me. 'Hi there, good afternoon. How are you today?' "Shit! Why is he talking to me? I hate it when store clerks talk to me." And that's in regular stores. I get all nervous and want to leave, so you could imagine my panic now. Surprising a calm confident voice leaves my mouth. 'Oh, good afternoon. I'm ok' I wipe the snow off my shoes on the matt and walk the rest of the way into the store. "He must have been talking to me, I'm the only one in the store." I continue to walk into the store right up to the counter, glancing at the shelves on my way. 'I never been in one of these stores before, so you just have movies and magazines. I guess you don't have any gadgets and toys?' 'No, but we will have soon.' Now I notice there's another guy sitting behind the counter, but the first guy does the talking and goes into a kinda sales pitch. I nod and look interested. 'I see, ya, well I just thought I'd stop in and look around. I see these places popping up all over the place so I finally decided to check it out' "You mean you finally got the nerve to go into one of these stores. Ssshhh! Let's just look around and get out ok." The clerk goes on saying more stuff, but I'm already to caught up in the covers of the videos just off to my left. Since he's on my right, he's not blocking my view. Good thing for him, because I'm being so unconsciously rude now, and so into the titles, that I might of just pushed him aside if he was. "Pay attention! Don't want to look like a drooling pervert" Good timing I caught myself just as he was going into his closing statements and answer with a polite, 'Thanks' So I turn to the shelves and start browsing, and just then the second guy jumps up and says, 'And next weeks special will be on whips and chains!' We all laugh, and I continue browsing. As I go through the store I realize this place really well laid out. Everything is categorized and presented professionally. "This place is better maintained than some regular video stores I've been in. What did you expect, a pack of dirty old men hovering over a box of unmarked tapes" They had everything: Girls on Girls, Bigins, Oral, Anal, Black, White, Asian, and Inter-racial, Adventure, Sports, Kinky, Detective, Couples, Amateur, even New releases. And I sure I didn't see them all. They even had a Gay Men self, but I quickly walked by that section. I didn't want the store clerks to see me looking interestedly at that self, they might think I was gay (not that there's anything wrong with that). So I completely circled the shop and made my way back to the counter. 'Well thanks, have a nice day' "I'm outta here!" But then suddenly the clerk came from around the counter. 'Well since you took the time to come in and see the place, I might as well tell you a little more about ourselves' "Oh no, here it comes. They're gonna tell me I can't leave. The make-shift studio is in the basement and tonight I'm the guest star. Get a grip" He actually goes on to tell me that every movie in the store can be bought or rented. The price to buy is $69.95 and to rent is $4.99. Also, when you buy a movie you can trade it in at some later date and half it's purchase price will be put towards anything else you buy. Then he showed me a special sale shelf where the movies where going for 3 for the price of 1. He said people could even become members and get some special privileges. Like a product list, mail catalogues, etc. 'Well, I wasn't planing to get anything today, but I'll probably come back and get something over the weekend.' 'Ok, so see you later. Have a nice day.' 'Ok, thanks again, bye' "See that wasn't so bad." --