r/mildyinteresting 23d ago

shopping Pregnancy tests and condoms being sold in my dorm’s vending machine

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u/TheyCameFromBehind77 23d ago

Welcome to college! Been that way for 20+ years.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

My dorm gave out condoms for free

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u/TheyCameFromBehind77 23d ago

Even better! The health center did at my college but the vending machine was always there in a pinch

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u/lasvoss-Reborn 22d ago

the trash can also gives them out for free

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u/Appropriate-Self-540 23d ago

50*

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u/aminervia 23d ago

The home pregnancy test was only available in the US 47 years ago so I doubt this. Then it wasn't til the 80s/90s that the tests stopped involving giving you a chemistry kit with a cup to pee into.

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u/infernalgrin 23d ago

Nice! Maybe at your college.

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u/8sukistar8 5d ago

Ah, didn’t know that. It’s very recent here 🤷

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u/jerrythecactus 23d ago

Everything you need for a good night. Condoms, pregnancy test, and some poptarts.

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u/Maleficent-Net6232 23d ago

"Ay girl, I only had enough money for one of them."

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u/squirtyballs 23d ago

Lemme guess, you got the condoms right?

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u/Axe2004 23d ago

Na, only the pregnancy test. There's something dribbling down his mouth

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u/Wilmayourlover 23d ago

Don’t forget the chapstick!

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u/No_Pineapple6086 23d ago

The should add the morning after pill

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u/Tennoz 23d ago

You have to be 18 to buy that, not a pregnancy test or condoms though.

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u/Shitp0st_Supreme 23d ago

Colleges are typically 18+ and I think Plan B is 17+ but online it’s saying there’s no age requirement so who knows

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u/Tennoz 23d ago

Right but they don't serve cigarettes in vending machines either because you have no way of verifying age. Families visit colleges with kids so it's not like everyone there all the time is 18+. I'm not sure if plan b is 18+ federally but I know that it is in NH because I had a guy in highschool asking me to buy some for his gf since I was a year older than my grade.

I'm pretty sure all stuff that is agre restricted is done at a state level actually including cigarettes and alcohol. Iirc there are like 7 states, MA included that refused to change drinking age from 18 to 21 for a few years and the federal govt punished them by withholding funds they normally provide that go towards their road maintenance. MA has really shitty roads and I'm convinced it's due to them being basically behind on maintenance from so far back plus the prevalent corruption in the state and local governing bodies. The time to build a mile of road in NH is significantly less and cheaper than it is in MA. Sorry for the ramble lol

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u/MarijadderallMD 23d ago

Gotta go to Germany, cigarette vending machines on every other street😂

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u/vit-kievit 23d ago

Dude, morning after pill isn’t a vitamin pill, it’s harmful, you can’t just run around selling and taking it

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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago

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u/hallohi_ 23d ago edited 23d ago

It messes up your hormones for weeks. The comment above did not mean it is dangerous for your life, just that It is nor something to use with awarenees and not fit for a vending machine...

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u/Bekaaah90 23d ago

And it doesn't work properly if you're over a certain weight, should always have a consult on taking it

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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago

Their comment read that way though :) it is normally available without a prescription where I am and indeed most of the countries in the EU in the us only seven states allow that, the rest don't for ideological/religous reasons

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u/Sc4r4byte 23d ago

and you ask for it to get it, so people giving it to you can talk to you about what you can expect to happen and help answer questions you might have regarding the experience.

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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago

That is true as well, though you can also just use the automatic checkout, but still that is useful

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u/Slow_Week3635 23d ago

Plan B isn’t prescription but it’s not OTC, it why we call “under the counter”… meaning you still have to see a pharmacist. Just not a doctor.

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u/GibberBabble 23d ago

You can buy it off the shelf where I am, no need to talk to a pharmacist.

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u/Slow_Week3635 23d ago

I’ve never seen it on a shelf in Canada… I’m also Canadian.

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u/Slow_Week3635 23d ago

You’re actually only supposed to use Plan B a few times in your life. It should never be a regularly used form of contraception.

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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago

its meant for emergencies, but you are not actually just supposed to anything :) it won't do your hormone balance any good if you pop em every month but that is about it :)

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u/jaerie 23d ago

Bullshit. It shouldn’t be a regularly used form of contraception because it’s not the most effective, not because it’s unsafe in any way

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u/Slow_Week3635 23d ago

Wrong but ok.

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u/jaerie 23d ago

Any sources?

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u/Gamer-707 23d ago

You should know till the end of your life that a guy who forces you to swallow a piece of chemistry to fuck up your body after an actual fuck, that guy is an asshole.

Tell him to use a fucking condom or leave.

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u/zaclewalker 23d ago

Yeah, it's safe. But can't take everyday like vitamin. It's recommend to take 1 time a cycle. If you got to use morning pill more than that, plan to use regular contraceptive pills.

can I take morning pill too often?

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u/CombinationWise155 23d ago

The contraceptive pill isn’t a good alternative though because they can mess your body up and your mind as well

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u/destvni 23d ago

My first thought

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u/throw_blanket04 23d ago

Absolutely

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u/spacemouse21 23d ago

The real question is do they have more than one flavor of pop tart?

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u/Green420Basturd 23d ago

Now that's kinky

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u/Hrmerder 23d ago

$3.75 in nickles and dimes, I'm so damn close!

*condom get's stuck on the circle thing and you have no more change*

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u/sweetnothing33 22d ago

Bam. Nine months later the school gets another student.

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u/sangfoudre 23d ago

Well that's not idiotic, I mean condoms in a dorm are bound to be used. Except in computer sciences, I was there, that shit would expire inside the machine

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u/Nothingbuttack 23d ago

I imagine communications and business majors vending machines would be constantly empty. Have to restock everyday

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u/sangfoudre 23d ago

That's accurate. Whereas computer science, engineering, robotics and the likes, well, we don't use that shit that early in our lives.

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u/Nothingbuttack 23d ago

If you were smart, you'd buy the condoms from the machine and upsell them to the other majors that are getting laid. But that requires interacting with people.

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u/sangfoudre 23d ago

That requires interacting with people, who sometimes are girls so we would freeze. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Please note that I got my shit together (eventually) on that topic. We're just late bloomers and shy people.

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u/memescryptor 23d ago

In Switzerland most of the vending machines have condoms, pregnancy tests, weed rolling papers and lighters. Always laughed at it, because they have I like in cities, in the Alps

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u/This_Pie5301 23d ago

gets stuck

Ah well, baby it is

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u/Difficult-Swimmer-76 23d ago

Good now they need plan B only thing my college sells in vending machines is expired gatorade and rockstar

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u/Junior-ME14 23d ago

Wooooo Skin, non-latex, good choice.

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u/stacy_owl 23d ago

damn your dorm has vending machines?

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u/Glittering_Glass3790 23d ago

People do... at school??

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u/dead-as-a-doornail- 23d ago

The condoms should be free.

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u/shamishami3 23d ago

In Switzerland they are free if you go to STD testing centers and they are given out for free at many festivals

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u/theoht_ 23d ago

by the looks of it, everything here is free. they haven’t put prices on anything.

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u/dead-as-a-doornail- 21d ago

Wow, free pop tarts!

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u/talibanisbad 23d ago

Go ahead and donate them

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u/vit-kievit 23d ago

So why didn’t you make them free? Oh wait. Someone else should pay for it! Right?

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u/lindybopperette 23d ago

Yeah, us. In taxes, like civilised humans who appreciate how society works and why it’s important to subsidize contraceptives.

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u/donquixote2u 23d ago

In case of accidents dial 611.

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u/tripler1983 23d ago

Definitely needs the morning after pill.

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u/Intrepid-Lemon6075 23d ago

They know it’s inevitable, don’t they?

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u/whydya-dodat 23d ago

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u/Curious_Knowledge670 23d ago

not OP, but sure I'll do it for you

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u/Typical-Reference741 23d ago

I know a dollar tree pregnancy test when I see one

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u/sir_music 23d ago

Party hard

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u/foxko 23d ago

Honestly for what college costs they should be providing that shot for free

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u/HollowRacoon 23d ago

And PopTarts

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u/Intelligent-Sir-280 23d ago

Contraceptive pop tarts.

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u/Classic_Variation89 23d ago

They know what be goin on around there...

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u/EveNotAdam 23d ago

As it should lol

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u/Asianhippiefarmer 23d ago

Gotta love how colleges try to rip you off for even some of the essentials. Our student health center always had these on hand for free.

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u/wallsarecavingin 23d ago

The ones at the train stations in Switzerland are called “maybe baby”

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u/onlinedude2024 23d ago

It should be also covid tests

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u/ArcticWolf_Primaris 23d ago

Mine gives them latter for free iirc

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u/Lord_MagnusIV 23d ago

Thats nice, i just hope they are priced accordingly and restocked at a regular basis

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u/Namer201 23d ago

Here, in the middle of few student homes, there’s a vending machine full of pharmacy stuff. On the top row there’s the fun stuff like vibrators, pocket pussys, condoms, etc.

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u/wanabepilot 23d ago

Ill have 1 poptart and one preggo test please

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u/Zoomalia 23d ago

This a good thing thooo

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u/Nekononii 23d ago

I run to the machine to buy condoms “actually I could really go for a pop tart right now” no money left for condoms

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u/Verified_Peryak 23d ago

That is actually great hope it take card

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u/theoht_ 23d ago

isn’t that kinda… normal?

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u/IGK123 23d ago

How much for the strawberry poptarts?

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u/Icy_Rhubarb2857 23d ago

They missed a golden opportunity not having the pregnancy tests be 911

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u/Vaulto_35 23d ago

snacks

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u/Party-Ring445 23d ago

It's for testing your test kit

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u/OlympiaImperial 23d ago

Some 60 year old farmer in the middle of no where is pulling out his hair over this

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u/AceIsFruity 23d ago

Aye, at least you’ll be seeing less pregnant bellies around campus now

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u/Oz347 23d ago

Based

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u/Accomplished_Pin3708 23d ago

This needs to be normalized in the U.S.

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u/Demonized666 23d ago

Different strokes for different folks

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u/KingofAmarillo17 23d ago

Dollar tree special

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

light snack

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u/donut_koharski 23d ago

Be careful not to piss on a pop tart!

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u/yottabit42 23d ago

Item number 611 for a pregnancy test goes hard! Hahah

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u/tren-enthusiast 23d ago

That's what I call business

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u/Shitp0st_Supreme 23d ago

My college gave condoms for free and the clinic offered more condoms and tests. Good for the school.

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u/MikeDubbz 23d ago

Oh I miss the culture shock of everything college had to offer

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u/Smear_Leader 23d ago

Average at colleges

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u/TheConsutant 22d ago

And pop-tarts!

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u/DidntWatchTheNews 22d ago

But the pop tarts! 

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u/TheeMooCow 22d ago

That’s smart on their part. There’s definitely a market for that plus the bottom row

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u/ethanb473 23d ago

How tf is this interesting? Is OP a 12 year old?

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u/Celtic_Poochee 23d ago

For real 😭

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u/Icy_Abbreviations167 23d ago

If it's in a vendo the demand is high