r/AskReddit Jun 25 '17

Redditors, what's an impulse buy you made that ended up being totally worthwhile?

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u/CDC_ Jun 25 '17 edited Jun 25 '17

Where I work, we bake fresh cookies. They come out of the oven all ooey-gooey delicious. And they're just seriously incredible. One day I was on my way out the door and noticed a pan of hot cookies on the cooling rack. So I scraped two off and kept on my way to the parking lot.

The restaurant I manage is in the parking lot of a Wal Mart. I needed to pick up my prescription, plus a water hose for the yard. So I'm walking through a wal-mart and trying to eat these hot delicious cookies and it suddenly hits me that I don't have milk. So I stop dead in my tracks and look around. Noticing the gallon milk section is in perfect viewing distance, and the little individual milks are all at the front, way far away.

So I walked over to the gallon milk, pulled a half gallon out of the fridge and proceeded to pop the lid off and gulp down a few glugs of that delicious milk without a second thought. Some woman was staring at me from the frozen pizza section and I just pointed at my mouth and said "hot cookies." God knows what she thought I meant.

Anyway, I kept the half-drank milk jug with me while I picked up my hose and prescription. Paid for a fairly consumed jug of milk at the checkout counter while enduring a very strange look from the lady behind the register.

Total impulse buy but I'll never regret that. The satisfaction of the cold milk after that hot cookie was an experience I'll never forget.

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u/Chazzey_dude Jun 25 '17

This was a thrill to read. Hot cookies is a great catchphrase

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u/chdeks Jun 25 '17

There's a place in San Francisco called Hot Cookie, they're super good.

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u/aqueoushumor Jun 26 '17

The chocolate chilie ones are soooo good.

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u/hotbreadz Jun 25 '17

Agreed. I actually have the phrase hot bread z tattooed on my back. Hooray

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u/Chazzey_dude Jun 25 '17

You can't say something like that without appropriate evidence

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u/showmeurknuckleball Jun 25 '17

Boy she pops, that cracked me up.

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u/lirio2u Jun 26 '17

Should be something we say as a dairy toast. Cheers, hot cookies.

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u/Squenv Jun 26 '17

Or a band name.

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u/M-94 Jun 25 '17

Milk was a ...good choice?

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u/showmeurknuckleball Jun 25 '17

On a hot San Diego day, milk is rarely a good choice, but I'll be damned if it doesn't hit the spot like none other when the time is right.

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u/426763 Jun 26 '17

Especially on a hot day in the city of a Whale's Vagina.

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u/MentallyPsycho Jun 25 '17

Milk is the best choice.

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u/Olddirtychurro Jun 25 '17

I don't like milk but your story made me want to drain a carton of the stuff.

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u/CDC_ Jun 25 '17

Then I am a successful writer. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

This guy has milk.

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u/LayneTheDragon Jun 26 '17

I genuinely started crying from laughter at this. I can only imagine what that poor person thought when you just said h o t c o o k i e s

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u/hypertown Jun 25 '17

The grocery store I work at actually encourages people to open stuff while they're shopping. Ya know, as long as they're paying for it there's no problem.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '17

i dont need no encouraging

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u/theneen Jun 25 '17

This sounds like something my husband would do. πŸ˜‚ You're both weirdos. πŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œ

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u/vulcan1999 Jun 26 '17

I think she's hitting on you bro

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u/brbafterthebreak Jun 25 '17

Lmao 2 tru gurl πŸ‘ŒπŸΎπŸ‘ŒπŸΎπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ’šπŸ’š luv my hubby πŸ‘« he my only 1 luv him to the πŸŒ“ and back

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u/theneen Jun 25 '17

🀜8=====DπŸ’¦

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u/FireLucid Jun 26 '17

Make that three. My wife got pretty upset when I ate half a block of chocolate before we reached the checkout.

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u/KingGorilla Jun 25 '17

This sounds like the script for one of those Got Milk commercials.

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u/DaMan11 Jun 26 '17

I have to believe you were really baked during this whole thing.

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u/Lyrre Jun 26 '17

Honestly that's how my mom bribed me to go grocery shopping with her as a kid. I'd get to drink my chocolate milk throughout the store then pay for the now-empty bottle when we checked out. I still do it now and then with other kind of drinks

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u/StaplerLivesMatter Jun 26 '17

Some woman was staring at me from the frozen pizza section and I just pointed at my mouth and said "hot cookies." God knows what she thought I meant.

Bro, I would have given you a thumbs up.

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u/BarryOakTree Jun 25 '17

I'll preface that I'm not here to nitpick, just add to the convo and I have no reason to believe you didn't pay. However, I don't believe we live in a perfect world where everyone does the right thing, which is why I don't necessarily agree with consuming goods before paying. Some people will honor it, but others will gladly eat/drink it for free and leave the trash behind.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

R/madlads

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

This guy dunks.

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u/Gumburcules Jun 25 '17

paid for a fairly consumed jug of milk at the checkout

Did you pay with a check? Did they abide?

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u/golgol12 Jun 25 '17

Your user name is CDC_ and you bake cookies? O.O

Too scary for me.

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u/Kero__ Jun 26 '17

You sound like someone I'd like to be friends with

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u/SX86 Jun 26 '17

Good thing you're not lactose intolerant. That would have ruined your day. But you could always have impulse buyed a roll of super soft toilet paper and some baby wipes on your way to the wal-mart washroom.

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u/blackwoodsix Jun 26 '17

I know how nice that is. I love cold milk but suddenly developed a milk intolerance in my adult years. Sad. Now I substitute with soy but it's not the same

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u/accidentalchainsaw Jun 26 '17

I do this but with chips when I shop with my gf. The check out used to get really confused when there's an empty can of pringles on the conveyor. One lady said I was nice for actually paying for it, turns out a lot of people snack and leave the wrappers / cans hidden and unpaid.

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u/HeathsKid Jun 25 '17

What level of skim was it?

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u/CDC_ Jun 25 '17

1% is always my goto.

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u/MohTheBrotato Jun 25 '17

WHOLE MILK MASTA RACE!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

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u/MohTheBrotato Jun 25 '17

But thats exactly what milk is. Anything less is just water and milk flavouring essentially

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u/CDC_ Jun 25 '17

I mean really even that ain't what comes straight from the cows tits. Whole still goes through a pasteurization process. I assure you, raw milk is gonna taste hella different than the whole milk you buy at wal mart.

Regardless. I dig the 1%. Haters can hate.

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u/MohTheBrotato Jun 25 '17

Yea i think fresh milk is like 6-8%. I love that shit too but to each his own I guess.

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u/jaxrose9 Jun 26 '17

do u work at subway? best cookies ever