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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
I shop like a dude. I like to know what I want and where it is, get in, get it, and get out. I *hate* clothes shopping because it almost always involves a lot of browsing through store after store, the endless lugging of stuff into fitting rooms only to find out that it doesn't fit or I don't like it on me - ugh.
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My sister freely admits to being a "typical" female shopper. In '98 I was visiting, and told her I was going to a very large comic shop. She offered to drive so we took her SUV. Once there I pulled out my large list of things I was looking for and dug in. After about twenty minutes I had found everything they had and was ready to go. She was in shock. She said when she was shopping for anything other than food she had to plan the entire day around it.
I don't like shopping, even for clothes. If I need a new pair of jeans I head to Wally World and add them to my list. I know exactly what size I need so I don't even put them on. I will "browse" the cheap T-shirt aisle to see if they have any cool new ones I want, but that takes an extra five minutes. If my shoes are dying I know where to buy another pair just like them. I don't even go to the nearby grocery store unless I'm absolutely out of everything. No milk? A bowl of chili will do for breakfast until it's gone too.
[edit] Topic? Oh, yeah. I feel sorry for the guy, but who knows what other mental problems he may have had?
Way way back when I was married I was more than willing to do "couple" things with my wife. I like going shopping with her, mainly because we were both young and I liked to see how she looked in different things. On the other hand we were almost exactly the same height and build (except for the man/woman bits), so one Christmas I walked into the JC Penney next to where I worked and started holding up womens' pants and tops to myself to determine if they would fit her. I got some funny looks, but I figured if I tried to explain they wouldn't believe me anyway, so I just kept my mouth shut. She thought it was pretty funny when I told her how I picked things out after we had opened everything.