After I spent hours researching a vibrator the company's website, and made sure to choose one that was sold in physical stores, I arrived at the nearest store ready to go.

I think the first thing that went wrong was when I saw that a guy with whom I used to go to school was working there.

It was a very small store, around the size of a living room, and the people working there could see me easily.

The idea of buying a vibrator while in view of my my former classmate made me feel a bit uncomfortable. It also felt awkward to me because he was acting like he didn't know me despite the fact that we used to sit at the same lunch table less than ten years before that day.

After I arrived, however, they didn't have the one I wanted, so I didn't know what to do. While the vibrator I wanted was sold in stores, it just wasn't sold at THAT particular store location at that time.

I decided to sit on the floor, close to, but not right next to the vibrators corner, and started using my phone to research the specific vibrators that I could see along a nearby wall of the store.

After doing that for a bit, though, the person who had given me a ride called me and asked me how much more time I needed. After telling them that I'd need another half-hour or an hour or something like that, unfortunately, the worker who was my former classmate heard and approached me. (Couldn't get any privacy in that store because it was so tiny, unfortunately.)

He said something like, "I will not have loitering in my store," and let me know that I had to leave. He was still acting like he had never met me before, even though he was standing right in front of me and talking to me. I felt really awkward, uncomfortable, and unwelcome. Partly because of getting dismissed in such a serious, slightly harsh way, and partly because of how he either didn't recognize me or was deliberately choosing to act like he didn't know me.

I left the store that day feeling awkwardly dismissed while still wondering if a strong vibrator would be the key that would allow me to finally have an orgasm again.

The next time that I visited the store went better, and I'll tell about that in a future chapter. :)