My boyfriend works a a sex shop. AMA!

How punny of you haha.

I didn't really choose to work there, it just kinda popped up. My mum had worked at a small, independently owned adult boutique store for a while, casually picking up shifts as a second job, and one day they really needed a replacement for a shift. My mum and boss are close so she just asked me to do the shift and the boss trusted her that I would be fine. Just like that, some easy money. After that, they started calling me more often when they needed a replacement and in a few weeks I was officially working there!

I've had a few weird/fucked up things happen, partly because of the area. We live in Australia so there's a few derros around. Probably the worst thing to happen to me personally was a time when a really aussie, clearly drugged up bitch came to the store and was asking to buy the smoke(synthetic weed) we sell, which by the way, is legal if you're wondering haha. My mate had come to hang out with me at work and was outside the shop at his car getting something when she pulled up. She got out, looked at him, and said "Hey robert, how ya goin'?" as if she knew him. His name isn't Robert, but him being the dickhead he is plays along and has a little chat with her, then she heads inside. When she came inside I could tell she was fucked up on so many drugs, smelled absolutely disgusting and was just dirty as fuck in general, but hey, a customer. I sold her the smoke and she left, I didn't really speak to her because she seemed to be in a rush, but we have security cameras pointing outside and she had parked right in front of it. I then watched her proceed to enter her car, open the packaging, pull out a bong, and right there and then she rips a massive cone. I wasn't so suprised considering where we live, but still not an every day occurence. So I kept watching, she starts coughing her lungs up, opens the car door and violently projectile vomits all over the concrete right otside the store, pulls her head back in and closes the door, then just drives off. At this point my friend comes running in, and says "What the fuck, did you see that shit?!". Many jokes were made, we laughed for a while after that.

Another pretty strange thing to happen didn't actually happen to me, but to someone else that works there. She caught a dude in the back(it's a pretty small store) behind the shelves that hold all the porno DVD's, just crouching there and having a jerk to the covers of the DVD's. Yet again, many jokes have been had.

Since I started working there, all my girlfriend owned was a dildo. I get a discount, so eventually I started buying a few toys to make things more interesting. After we discovered that it was so much fun and made sex even better, so very quickly we bought more and more things. Obviously you can't test things and put them back, you have to rely a lot on internet reviews to know if it's any good, and which brand/type is better etc. So now we have a pretty good collection of most of the better stuff in the store. This helps a lot when customers come in because considering I've used it, I can give an honest opinion and help people find what they're looking for a lot easier. And you have to understand it's not an awkward thing, because once you're in the shop all awkwardness disappears and everything is is spoken about like just everyday shit. This is why it legitimately helps me do my job, and I get to have fun doing it!

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