Blunt Answers Are Your Best Protection

(I’m an unmarried 24-year-old woman living in a very religious town. I’m at the grocery store, scanning my loot through the self-checkout. Next to me there’s a stuffy-looking old couple in their 70s. The poor husband is trying to scan their groceries while his wife snipes at him, telling him he’s doing everything wrong. The old hag spies me scanning a box of condoms. I see her eyes do a little flick down to my (bare) left ring finger and back up to my face. Her eyes narrow and she snaps:)

Woman: “Young lady, why are you buying THOSE?”

Me: *so taken aback and offended that I reply, probably too loudly* “Because I have sex.”

(She doesn’t say another word, not to me or to her husband. I pay for my groceries and laugh all the way to the car.)