Do you have a man who will shop with you?

Pipanella · #1 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 11:26 AM

Well, I do if I make promises! LOL!! To my DH, 'shop' and 'mall' are four-letter words! But that's okay, he usually slows me down anyway!

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AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME: Men traditionally hate to deal with crowds
doing Christmas shopping, especially if it's just to walk along with
their ladies. So the Braehead Shopping Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, has
a solution: "surrogate boyfriends" -- men to help women shop. "The
Shopping Boyfriend is the ultimate retail therapist: enthusiastic,
attentive, admiring and complimentary," said a spokeswoman. "He will
browse with the girlfriend for hours on end. He'll even say her bum
looks small." (Reuters)

...Note to boyfriends not familiar with British
slang: "bum" means her butt, not you.

*Rolling On Floor Laughing My Bum Off*

dianemarie · #2 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 12:16 PM

lmao

Thanks for sharing this, Pip!

BTW--To my DH, shopping and the mall means one thing...he's going to Sears to look at table saws!

Tiggers Lady · #3 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 12:56 PM

Well, I must say that I am one very lucky lil' lady!!

My DH loves to shop, so do my kids!!! I have yet to meet or talk to anyone who is in the same situation - but I don't take this for granted at all, at any time!!!

buckeyemomma · #4 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 12:57 PM

nope...When he does go shopping, he makes a list and gets what he went after and leaves....I like to stay in stores for hours sometimes, just looking around. I have even been known to stay in a store an hour or more and only buy 1 thing (a few times, maybe nothing).

Pipanella · #5 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 01:03 PM

Oh, momma, a woman after my own heart........

I've been known to shop for more than an hour in one store, carry around things that I 'had to have,' only to talk myself out of them and put them all back before I leave the store.

I've also purchased something, shopped the rest of the day, found a better deal or something I just liked better, and returned the original purchase all in one day, too.

Oh, brother..............

dianemarie · #6 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pipanella
I've been known to shop for more than an hour in one store, carry around things that I 'had to have,' only to talk myself out of them and put them all back before I leave the store.

WOW!!

I do this all the time! I'm a pro at talking myself out of buying things!

miriama59 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 02:54 PM

Bill shops with me quite a bit. He isn't that fond of it but he knows I don't like to go alone.

I HAVE noticed that he volunteers to pick up things alone sometimes, maybe because he just gets what is on the list and I have a tendency to "browse"

Pipanella · #8 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 02:58 PM

SHOP=browse and/or buy

tasker109 · #9 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 03:04 PM

makes sense to me! my hubby panics when he thinks he has to go someplace other than home depot.

tlspiegel -Closed · #10 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 04:29 PM

When married, it was never a problem - if nothing else he could walk and get exercise. Now, I have a variety of men platonic friends that would go happily. In fact, my dearest male friend hates the malls, but will go along just to please me!

Brittwoman · #11 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 04:40 PM

My DH LOVES to shop and spend money...he's worse then me

kat · #12 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 04:43 PM

Hubby now has no excuse but to go with me since the eye doctor said no more driving for me.

But, he was always the one who would actually park at the mall & spend hours walking around inside searching for what-I-never-knew (yep, he shops like Pip & Momma), I don't hear a whole lot of complaining.

scooter22 · #13 (**permalink**) 12-01-2001, 09:27 PM

I'm a man and you would'nt catch me dead in the Mall for more than 9 minutes and 33 seconds... And that's pushin it... I hate shopping and will go kicking and clawing and snarling if I have to... I love that commercial where the guy goes to the mall with his wife, and she runs off and he just gets that look that all men know as utter dread, and he hears a psst... and there's 4 other dudes watching football in the coat rack... Think it was a Bud Light commercial... But that's what I'm talkin about!!! I gotta run over to the electronics department....