When I was about 20, I needed to cut down a tree in my yard, so I went into the Home Depot (mind you, when I was that age I dressed very gothic, I was wearing my trench coat and who knows what else at the time), picked up a hack saw, an axe, some chain, and then had a guy cut me 50 feet of rope. While cutting the rope for me he looked in my cart and asked what I was doing. Without a second thought, I said with a perfectly straight face, "Snuff film". The guy hands me the rope and walked off very quickly. Kind of surprised he didn't call the cops or anything. Now if I went and bought this stuff now, no one would give it a second thought. I'm sure it was just the way I was dressed that made him wonder.