Pickles by Brian Crane for March 29, 2022

That they are

Shopping hours are an eternity. My friend and I go shopping with our wives. We pick out what we like and buy it and are done. Then we go and have cocktails while we wait for what seems like an eternity while our wives shop. Just a difference in decision making.

And the hours increase double inside the purse stores.

On my most recent grocery run on my day-off therefrom, one co-worker jokingly said to me that I overstayed my welcome.

I used to have to do shopping with my mother. My father would wait in the car where he could watch the pretty girls go buy, I had to go in the store, sit on the little stool or couch, and hold her purse. My father got the best deal of it.

Earl’s right about this one!

Going shopping, for something you don’t want, with someone who whined to get you to come, in a store that has nothing that interests you, and your required to pay for it takes forever.

You go to the mall (if you still have one) and you see the men sitting in the chairs while their wives are out shopping!

My brother is a browser when we go into a store. I’m his sister and it drives me nuts.

Shopping hours are longer for men than they are for women. That was proven by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

I go to the store, get what’s on the list & come home on the next bus.

I’ve always considered J.C. Penney’s a twilight zone , My late Wife would say to me in and out 15mins tops , 1hr. 45mins. Later still no sigh of her !

Could be my life experience but I discovered the difference between NEED & WANT long ago. Needs are essential to life and are quickly consumed or utilized. Wants tend to pile up in closets, garage, attic, storage shed, and end up in resale shops or landfill. To be CONTENT with what I have also stretches my limited income.

It seems like he had a full head of hair before they left home.

Amen to that.

I’m pooped just thinking about it.

You got that right!

Older people need naps, I look forward to it daily.

It’s true! I can survive 45 minutes in a mall before having to evacuate.

Problem solved Earl! China has come up with this … https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/china-introduces-husband-storage-pods-in-malls-for-lengthy-shopping-trips-article-90281873

The shopping hours phenomenon depends on what it is, that you’re shopping for.

Clothes, shoes or wallpaper? Yup.

Tools, boats or motorcycles? Nope.

Yeah…… I HEAR ya..!!!!!! – - – - Worse than DOG years…….

Ugh! I hate to shop! It’s the loading, and unloading and putting away that gets me

I like to shop, although I’ve gotten pickier over the years, and don’t buy as much as I used to. I can drive myself, I earn my own money, and my husband only comes along if he wants to.

Got that right

Cosmic Truth # 135.

Sooooo true!!

I’m with Earl; I hate to shop!

Well, the shopping “hers” are longer.

I think women who do the shopping in families should take a few months off of any shopping. Let’s see how the household runs. Maybe a whole year, give the rest of the family a little time to learn how difficult it can be.

Yup!

https://www.pcmag.com/news/chinese-mall-introduces-husband-storage-pods

Yes, like dog years, except they were octopus (not to be confused with Octomom).

My stepdad was one of those rare men who LOVED to go shopping. The only place he refused to go into was the fabric store (after the time the cutting table ladies ignored him, thinking he was “just there with someone”). He’d take mom there, but then he’d sit in the car with his Kindle.

Shopping hours are like the last two minutes of a football game; tied score, both teams have all their time-outs and the network has a bunch more commercials to run. I’m glued to the TV, so I figure it’s only fair…

It adds hours to your life. You just lived an extra 7 in one. Well, LIVED may be overstating it a mite, but you felt it slowly pass….

I enjoy going to the grocery store by myself.

Me being dragged along to go grocery shopping with my husband! He likes to go several times a week.

Yet plopping in front of the TV for a six hour football game…………….

My father loved to go shopping, while my mother did not. On visits to see my parents after I was living on my own, my father enjoyed taking me to the local shopping center (this was in pre-mall America) and had fun helping me pick out clothes. He had a great eye for what would look good on me!

I agree, Earl, and I have a 2 1/2 hour commute to shop! Hate it…

Much longer, especially at a fabric store, now time speeds up in the Hardware store, it’s an unexplained phenomenon.

Earl is so right! Shopping with the wife for an hour feels like a full day’s work.

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” Attributed to A. Einstein