Purchasing first gloves

I was just wondering how all the docs felt when they were purchasing their first pair of gloves. I can remember several years ago I was at the local drugstore and seeing a box of gloves that could be purchased individually.I thought I had just found a treasure chest of Spanish gold. I remember how nervous I was when I laid 6 gloves out on the checkout counter and was worried what the clerk was thinking. I had already though if ask, I was going to tell her they were good for keeping wood stain off my fingers when refinishing furniture.... something I found out really does work.Were you nervous and what was going through your mind??

I simply don't bother lucam, whatever it is I'm buying. I guess the trader is in business to sell - I'm in the business of buying!

For instance I use a lot of incontinence pads, about a metre (yard) square on my examination table. I buy in packs of 50 from a store dealing in goods for disabled persons. I smile to myself when I read the thoughts of the assistant - maybe she's thinking 'Aw poor bugger, still wetting the bed!'

It's amusing too when there are other customers nearby - they're clearly much more embarrassed than me!

I well remember, some 40 yrs ago when my wife had our first child at home, which was common then. My mother, a straight laced religious woman living nearby offered to go to the pharmacy for 'unmentionables' for my wife. I said 'no mother, I'll go, I'm off work to look after xxxx'. 'Unmentionables' to mother were sanitary pads!

To anyone suffering from such embarrassment - just bite the bullet!

I just buy my exam gloves at the local chain pharmacy; they come in a box of 100. I don't only use them for playing doctor with other men; I also use them on my model building workbench if I want to keep fingerprints off the paint on the model.

Buying gloves shouldn't be a problem. They are widely available in drug and discount stores and ar not just for medical uses anymore.

I use them for everything from changing oil in my truck to handling meat in the kitchen as well as for their "intended" use.

Just pick them up, pay for them and leave.

It still seems anxiety inducting to go into a drug store and buy just gloves. I find myself coming up with a aliby in my head before checkout. The truth is though that nobody making minimum wage ringing up items really cares who is buying what.

This is why it was good to have a parent who was in the health care field ; ), but then I realized that there were more fun ones than plain white exam gloves... not that they don't have their place.

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. . . . I was going to tell her they were good for keeping wood stain off my fingers when refinishing furniture. . . .

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Lucam, Actually, nitrile gloves are MUCH better at keeping wood stain off your fingers. The latex gloves break down in a couple of minutes, while the nitrile keep on going like the energizer bunny!

To answer your original question, NO ONE CARES when you buy gloves. They are a very vanilla item. Anybody can use them and the cashiers don't have kinky thoughts coming to mind when you buy them because so many people of all ages buy them for so many uses.

I found nitrile gloves at Home Depot in the paint section. And yes, they stand up to stains and finishes that quickly eat through latex gloves.

I buy them all the time for working on my R/C cars, I got a bit fed up of getting my hands all dirty (I run my cars off road) and then them taking an age to get clean again so I had the idea of buying some. Now my hands don't get dirty at all lol 😄. I always play patient so have no other reason to buy them than that but I can understand the anxiety and excitement of those that play doctor, must be a exciting feeling!

Lee.

I think I was more confused than anything else, since I didn't know the exact sizing and I was pretty much just guessing based on how well a size 'small' glove fits and how it converts over to the numbered system.

I was pretty excited when I bought my first gloves. I ordered sterile surgical gloves online so I didn't have to worry the whole embarrassment thing. When I saw the slip in my mailbox I picked them up at the front desk and ran upstairs to my apartment like a little kid on Christmas morning and got my first good use out of them 😄

I associate exam gloves with examination of the genitals and anus which are the most exciting parts of the physical exam, so I bought my first box with tremendous excitement.

Ater I was examined by my doctor she closed the curtain so I could get dressed. I was almost shaking when I took some examination gloves out of the box on the nearby shelf, I almost wanted to be caught so I would have to explain about my fetish, oh how I would like to see her reaction. It was only after this experience that I actually thought of buying some weeeks later.