Pregancy Tests at Walmart

A friend of mine recently blogged about how Pregnancy tests are impulse buys at the dollar store. Here is another fun tidbit...Here in Killeen the pregnancy tests have to be behind the counter at the register where you show your I.D. to get Tobacco.

I was waiting in the checkout line with my husband at our local Walmart. We happened to be in the line where you can buy tobacco (don't worry we don't smoke! It was just the shortest line). I noticed that the Pregnancy tests and smaller boxes of Condoms were there as well. So i asked...the Walmart Employee politely informed me that they are the most often stolen items so they have to be kept behind the bar so that no one can reach them without assistance or someone noticing them taking them. I couldnt beleive it....people really steal pregnancy tests? So much that they say it is the most comonly stolen item here in Killeen, Tx? Thats pretty amazing to me. It seems to me that you wouldn't want to have to go thru this specific line and say "May i please have an E.P.T. as well?". That is just awkward. I also find it very sad that someone who thinks they are pregnant get so desperate to know that they steal a test.

I find that the more i live away from dear little Rexburg, the LDS bubble i grew up in, the more i lose faith in humanity. I am starting to understand why people say that Rexburgites are sheltered and the phrase "it's a big, bad world out there." So to everyone that still lives in Rexburg... Be glad. It truely is a nice community where people help other people, and are curteous and kind.

Another fun fact for you today... Ft Hood Army Post (not the including the surrounding area...just the post)... is actually has more population than Rexburg, Id.