Lured shopping under false pretences...

[Fab Foodie]

Oh Mr Grouchy Pants...

Ohhhh yesss!

 

[TheDoctor]

Sorry, but I just don't understand...
Lands End Cotton Traders Wiggle Ocado Majestic

What is this 'shopping' of which you speak?
*baffled*
and
*needs to get out more*

 

[Over The Hill]

You know, I think shops are missing out on a trick here. What they need is a small corner with a table and a few chairs, maybe even a complimentary coffee dispenser and a few news papers. In other words a man corner.

After about fifteen minutes in any shop I get fed up and start moaning at the missus to hurry up. For a small outlay the shop could keep the miserable sods like me happy and give the women folk longer to spend the cash. Result everybody is happy.

The ones with a view into the changing rooms where the curtains dont quite go all the way along tends to stop me kicking my heels to get out.

 

[Globalti]

I HATE shopping so much that it almost makes me feel sick. Got dragged around Manchester last weekend and I made such a nuisance of myself that she's going alone today while Gti Junior and I go out on our bikes. Yay!

 

[yello]

Why don't people go off to their shops and meet back at X point at X time?

It's what the wife and I do. She prefers to be able to leisurely browse without my sighing impatience. Likewise, she has limited interest in bike or computer bits. Luckily, we rarely need each others opinion on anything but it we do then just go back to the shop/whatever together.

We've also agreed our own personal 'fritter' budget. That is, if we want something for ourselves that's below a certain cost then we don't have to consult or justify it. However, she rarely uses her budget for items for herself, it's usually house related stuff; lamps, curtain material, etc. It's me that's the selfish spender.

 

[asterix]

You know, I think shops are missing out on a trick here. What they need is a small corner with a table and a few chairs, maybe even a complimentary coffee dispenser and a few news papers. In other words a man corner.

After about fifteen minutes in any shop I get fed up and start moaning at the missus to hurry up. For a small outlay the shop could keep the miserable sods like me happy and give the women folk longer to spend the cash. Result everybody is happy.

Ah! Now I understand the row of seats at the entrance to Lakeland Plastics. The ones with model cars and lorries and stuff next to them! No coffee or car mags yet..

Anyway, have just dropped Mrs A and daughter off to catch train to London, Oxford St. I am afraid, very afraid..

On the other, I've no issue shopping with Mrs Norm. I enjoy clothes shopping more than her, I have probably bought more of her clothes than she has.

Norm, that ain't Normal.. Globalti's diagram is reality!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

We occasionally go into town together but I have a low pain threshold and so prefer to shop on my own. There's only a few I ever go into, I usually know what I want and who's got it. Mrs 3BM calls my shopping style 'a raid' and the last shop is the independent wine merchant on the way home for a well earned restorative bottle of beer or two.

 

[XmisterIS]

I recently got sucked into the christmas shopping vortex by XmrsIS ... we were going round Debenhams in Southampton and, just when I had almost lost the will to live, she thrusted four sticks of lipstick into my hand and said, "can you go and put them back please?" Needless to say, I looked at her with an expression that said, "You want me, a man, to walk back across the lady department, holding four sticks of lipstick and put them back in the lady shop with everyone watching???"

Later in the trip, long after I had lost the will to live, she said, "what have you bought then?" and was genuinely surprised when I said, "a kitchen chopping board, for £5.99, because my one's got a split in it and it's getting manky." "That's it????", she replied. "Yes, that's it."

 

[Moodyman]

I love shopping for clothes and shoes, for myself, on my own. My wife prefers doing hers on her own too. Can't see why we'd want to mess it up by trying to force it together...

Us too. I do my own. She does hers.

 

[dellzeqq]

The ones with a view into the changing rooms where the curtains dont quite go all the way along tends to stop me kicking my heels to get out.

my favourite shop will look after your bike, and bring you a coffee. And then make suggestions for presents.

There is a way out. Just dress really badly and you'll be deemed surplus to requirements.

(says the condemned man who is even now putting on his new trousers and jumper to meet his beloved for lunch and (doubtless) a bit of light shopping to help her recover from her four hour hair appointment)

 

[dellzeqq]

Why don't people go off to their shops and meet back at X point at X time? if there's an opinion on a dress or something or the other then they can ask then?

er, because I might buy the wrong stuff..................

 

[brokenbetty]

Why not just take on the Christmas shopping yourself? I assume the presents will be from both of you.

 

[Black Sheep]

You know, I think shops are missing out on a trick here. What they need is a small corner with a table and a few chairs, maybe even a complimentary coffee dispenser and a few news papers. In other words a man corner.

After about fifteen minutes in any shop I get fed up and start moaning at the missus to hurry up. For a small outlay the shop could keep the miserable sods like me happy and give the women folk longer to spend the cash. Result everybody is happy.

basically, a man lab in the corner.

I often go shopping with my wife, it's not too bad tbh as she gets bored too and often just sends me off to have a nosy in the model shop / willingly comes into computer game shops etc so it's fair really.

 

[SteelUn]

A difference between a man and a boy, is that a man knows that when his woman asks him for an opinion about her shopping, she is just asking for approval (with, of course, only one correct answer).

 

[Kirstie]

Neither of us are particularly into shopping, but when we go, we go seperately - I like to go with my girl friends or my mum. The other half won't actually buy clothes until the ones he has are literally falling apart.