Bedtyme Stories

I came out to get some novelty items for a bachelorette party as well as a kinky gift for the bride to be.
This store is such a colossal rip off. Very small selection of bachelorette items and what they do have is poor quality and double the price as anywhere else. Gag bride veil= $ 29 and it was dingy. You can get it at Spencer’s for $ 12.99. 4 pack penis straws $ 9.99 exact same product $ 6 at Spencer’s. Vibrator $ 49 at Bedtyme. Exact same model $ 15.99 at Spencer’s. Mini lube tubes at the check out, I thought they all were $ 3.99 cb that was the only clearly marked price, 2 of them were $ 9.99 for the little 1 time use trial size!
I tried to use my 10% check in offer on Unilocal to which the cashier said «that mother f***** prick manager never f***** even put that in the system what a f***** prick…» I know it’s a sex shop but that doesn’t mean you have to have a trash mouth in front of customers.
He did give me 30% off the highest priced item which came out a little more than the 10% would have, so there’s that. I still spent about $ 30 more than I would have if I had shopped at Spencer’s to begin with.

Okay, the location, building exterior, and ID-​checking are a bit unsavory, but I really like this place! I am a sex-​positive feminist woman of the non-​burlesque-​ish persuasion. This is not a shop for women only, but it is very woman-​friendly. The man working on the evening I visited was very helpful and totally friendly (not AT ALL creepy). There is a nice, large selection of nontoxic toys and lubes for women. I didn’t check out the videos or books. More than half the customers were women, and about ¹⁄₃ of the customers appeared openly homosexual as well. There were also couples shopping together. I got an amazing price on a couple of Lelo products, and they threw in a $ 20 credit for my next purchase. Pretty great.

Bedtyme (not time, tyme) Stories got my hopes up, thinking I had found a secret sex boutique in the adorable Asheville area. Alas, in spite of the lovely meadow mural on the outside of the store, it is just another smut shop. I should have known by the crappity parking lot, riddled with a generous sprinkling of potholes ready to eat my poor little Honda. But, we were brave. We parked in front and strode in, heads held high, presented our IDs to the clerk through the little portal, and then were buzzed in. I admit, the clerk was friendly and the store was very clean. In typical Southern style the male shoppers looked down shamefully and stepped aside when I passed, often with a polite «ma’am» and a nod. The place mainly sells a vast selection of porn DVDs, with a couple of walls of cheap (and mostly toxic) toys and lube. No magazines, no lingerie, no heavy fetish gear, just a few party novelties. I was too disheartened to ask for information or see if there was a bathroom. Instead we picked up the only copies local gay printed media we found anywhere during our trip, bumped out of the lot, and continued our drive back to GA.
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