True Love... at the porn store

I'm going to a "Roaring 20's" party tomorrow night, and I needed a few things to complete my costume.

So I went down to Cathie's on 82nd & Powell in Portland, (a porn shop/stripper clothing/adult toy store) tonight after I got off work. Where else was I going to find gold gloves and fishnet stockings at 10pm on a Thursday? It was great, I got exactly what I needed, and the staff there was unbelievably helpful and as their slogan states, fun.

While I was there though, there was a young couple in their mid 20's also shopping, and the girl was looking at this really cute pink garterbelt and bra combo. She really wanted it, but they were already getting some other stuff and it would have been too much money. (It's amazing how much they charge for so little material!)

The manager, seeing the couple talking, starts laughing, and says to the boyfriend, "If you try it on and let us take a picture of you in it, she can have it for free!" Even I thought this was funny. The boyfriend turns to his girlfriend and says, "honey, how much do you want this?" She starts laughing too and says, "I wasn't sure about it, but I definately want it now!"


<---- It looked just like this, complete with bra and thong panties. So he takes the pink bra, thong and garterbelt combo and heads off to the dressing room and his final words of masculinity he says, "You're coming with me, I have no idea how this even goes on!" I was almost ready to leave, but I had to stay for this. Both employees in the store, (manger and cashier, both women) start cackling gleefully and the manager starts running around with the Polaroid giggling. I stood near the dressing room and listened in.


Guy: "Ow! How do you girls wear this stuff!"
Girl: hysterical laughter
Guy: "This is hard to get on."
Girl: more laughter
Guy: "Um, should I tuck it?"
Girl: laughing so hard it sounds like she's hyperventalating.

Then the girlfriend comes out and tells the employees that he's ready for his photo shoot. They run back to the dressing room with the Polaroid, and I peek in to see also. It was really funny. Think Rocky Horror in pink without the makeup. He even did some model poses and the girlfriend squealed she needed a copy of the picture for herself., which of course they gave her one.

She did end up getting the set for free, and the guy got lots of props from his girlfriend, the employees and even me, for being comfortable enough to do such a thing, and now he's #1 on Cathie's Hall of Fame (pictures behind the register where only the employees can see.) The last thing I heard before I left the store smiling was the girlfriend say, "I love you baby."

Guess you had to be there.