It has been awhile since I did my ‘Oooops’ series. A matter of fact, my Oooops series kind of went out the door when I changed blogs. I think it is time to bring it back. For those of you that don’t know my ‘Oooops’ series is just a mini blog from time to time when I see or hear about something business related and I think ‘Oooops’.

This evening I ran out to the supermarket to get a couple of things and I was standing in line when a man tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and to make a long story short he asked me if I could purchase something for him and that he would give me the money. At first I thought, maybe he just didn’t want to wait in the line, then I realized, there was nobody else behind me. So, I looked in his hand and he had a hot pink package of a feminine hygiene product, Kotex. I could not help but smile, because it is kind of funny, that a grown man would be embarrassed of purchasing such things. However, I can see how this hot pink box, when it being the only thing that you are purchasing, can scream ‘My significant other sent me to the store to buy this and these are obviously not for me’.

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