Roofies?

There's a particular mold of person coming in recently that I've been finding quite disturbing. It's always the same pattern. It's a middle aged east-Indian man, and he ignores me initially when I greet him. After a brief tour of the store, he comes up and demands help. "I am looking for something." I don't know if it's a regional thing that they're looking for, but all four men that have come in have quite heavy accents. "What is it you're looking for?" I ask politely each time. "I'm looking for drops." And each of them has mimed an eye dropper. I get this a lot, where people are looking for a thing by name, or some obscure description. The best way to hone in on what they want is to ask, "What do you want it to do?"

"It's for the lady. It makes her... more, in the mood?" I think it over and bring him to topical creams and gels. "These are mostly liquids, they go on clitorally to make her more sensitive and aroused. Is this what you're looking for?" He listens carefully with a little frown. "She drinks this?" In alarm I shake my head, "No, it goes on the skin." I mime rubbing it in on my hand. His frown deepens. "No, I want drops that go in her drink." He mimes the eye dropper again. I get a little suspicious and take him over to the drink aphrodisiacs. They come in little shots that say SEX SHOTS. "She can drink these if you want a liquid aphrodisiac, they're good for energy and arousal. Something like this?" He shakes his head. "No, I want drops, they go in the drink and make her aroused." I frown at him and shake my head, uncomfortable with the implications. "No, we don't have that." He gives a little exasperated sound, and I make one last effort. "We have pills, that are good for arousal, but no drops." "Show me that." So I take him around to the pill case and explains about the pills. "She can take these for arousal." He shakes his head in an immediate negative and turns to me, "I'm afraid you are not understanding me."

Unimpressed, I recite, "You want drops that you can put in a woman's drink that will make her aroused, not a pill that she has to take, or the shots." He nods excitedly and I shake my head, "We don't have that. They sound illegal." Typically at this point they'll go back over the areas I've shown them, consider the options, then leave, usually after asking once more if I'm sure we don't have drops. Oh gee, you asked me several times what you wanted. Oh wait, you wanted drops that you can dose women with to get them in the mood? Oh thooose drops, of course, why didn't you say so? We keep those over here.

So far this hasn't happened to anyone but me, but I swear the next time I'm just going to say, "Oh roofies?" And when they say yes I'll call the cops on them.