Just For MEN: WORSE for the Men's women

I kind of couldn't believe what was happening, but I was getting flack for purchasing this product....

It started out a  simple graphic design overall for the Just for Men brand.  But it became entirely something else...I'm purchasing this box of men's generic looking hair dye, so I take my box and approach the counter.  Let me tell you something about this Walgreens clerk, on Hennepin and 25th may I add, with a funky smile on his face and I thought he was just a normal working guy until,... 

The clerk looks at the box, then at me, then at the box again, and then he stares at me for a couple more seconds.  I then say, "HI?" in a questioning, what-are-you-doing sort of way.  He then says "Looks like a case of someone buying something for someone else."  I say "oh", and just look at him, and he looked back at me in the creepiest way I think I've ever been gazingly approached in.  

I stop and wonder now, a couple days later, if he would have continued to say what it sounded like he was going to say.  The 'gentleman' sounded as if he may head in the direction of my age.  I think if I'm buying a product for older men, that it may suggest that I am dating an older man.  And that's not just because I felt like I was indeed running an errand for my father.  What bothers me most about this strange counter-guarding fellow is that he's violated the sacred rules of making fun of people at your uneventful job...

Rule 1: Once they're gone, they're free game.

Rule 2:  You have to wait until they're gone!

And I thought everybody knew the rules!  I take the commentary of my friend working at a downtown hotel...

"When the movie they bought is over $20, you smile, wait until they leave, then immediately go to see what they rented.  It's fun to know what people are into."

-Secret front desk clerk