Shooping with your other half, if you have one

[Pete999]

...I don't know what three of them things are?

When my eldest has finished playing with his hoop n stick,i'm geting the street costamonger to explain how this shopping thing works...

Go into this big building, get a wire trolley thingy, fill it full of stuff, like cornflakes meat, you know stuff you stuff in your face when you get a rumbling sensation, or in mine and Tel's case go right to the end of the big building where there are lots of bottles of stuff, Red, White and Pink, Tel will be different he like bottles of stuff that come in boxes, lots of different makes colours etc.
Then you go to the place where you hand over lots of pennies you have earned during the week before, give this to the Lady sitting behind the counter, put all your stuff in bags, put it back in the trolley, you took it out of 15 minutes ago, put the stuff into your van, take it home, eat some of the stuff, drink most of the stuff in the bottles, sit there felling full up and slightly Rat assed, wondering what do I have to do next week to repeat the adventure in the big building next week, and the week after, and on and on. There are several occasions where the experience will be different Like Christmas, Birthdays, anniversaries, if you are lucky enough to remember them, deep joy all around really, that's shopping.

 

[Andy78]

Grocery shopping ? Balls to that.
When we used to do it we used to do a huge shop so we didn't have to go more than once a month. Not been for years though. It costs a couple of quid to get it delivered. Job done. No trolley rage, no fluorescent lit hell hole, no car park rudeness, no screaming kids.

 

[telectrix]

if you think grocery shopping is bad, try getting dragged round handbag/shoe/dress shops. then there's TK Mixx, garden centres, home furnishing stores. pure hell on earth. i've wiped cheshire oaks and trafford centre out of the sat navs' memories.

 

[Andy78]

if you think grocery shopping is bad, try getting dragged round handbag/shoe/dress shops. then there's TK Mixx, garden centres, home furnishing stores. pure hell on earth. i've wiped cheshire oaks and trafford centre out of the sat navs' memories.

No chance of that either. I have a lass that embraces the internet for nearly all her shopping needs. Not on the internet ? Well she has her own money and her own feet so no sense in dragging me along.

Now should she want to drag me out like last Saturday when we went for a walk to a local bar and idled away a few hours with drinks and food in the sunshine, she's got all of my attention and money she could ask for.

 

[Pete999]

No chance of that either. I have a lass that embraces the internet for nearly all her shopping needs. Not on the internet ? Well she has her own money and her own feet so no sense in dragging me along.

Now should she want to drag me out like last Saturday when we went for a walk to a local bar and idled away a few hours with drinks and food in the sunshine, she's got all of my attention and money she could ask for.

Lucky Fella then?

 

[telectrix]

hope you weren't on that apology for beer, so called lager thatpretends it's german or belgian, but made in warrington.

 

[telectrix]

usually that sort of trip is a bribe to wear out shoe leather in those (should not be mentioned on an open forum) what i referred to in post #18

 

[Andy78]

hope you weren't on that apology for beer, so called lager thatpretends it's german or belgian, but made in warrington.

Ha ! On the pump I actually did see a German named wheat beer that was made in Scotland.
I opted for a bit of my usual in that bar .....
Wold Gold | Wold Top Yorkshire Brewery - http://www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk/beers/wold-gold#

 

[David M]

Went sofa shopping last week with my other half , spent hours in loads of shops. Everyone sofa I sat in that was comfy and liked she hated, everyone she liked which were..well.. hardly any, felt like sitting on a stone bench and were stupendously expensive! She has now ordered the most expensive, un-comfy, pile of carp available. Why? "because it is made from luxury Italian leather and is very stylish"
Christmas is coming up, god help me

 

[Pete999]

if you think grocery shopping is bad, try getting dragged round handbag/shoe/dress shops. then there's TK Mixx, garden centres, home furnishing stores. pure hell on earth. i've wiped cheshire oaks and trafford centre out of the sat navs' memories.

Worse than clothes shopping experience, just got fitted with my hearing aid this morning at 08:30, Pete now we are in town can we go to a well known Irish shop , sort of Irish BHS DoneOak or something like that, having to explain to some teenager in the fabric area how to convert inches into metric, with a raging headache from hearing properly for the first time in I don't know how long, I'll buy you a bacon bap after she says, nearly broke me effin teeth in the process of trying to eat the burnt offering, still all better now nice bottle of Cotes Du Rhone slipping down lovely.

 

[telectrix]

Went sofa shopping last week with my other half , spent hours in loads of shops. Everyone sofa I sat in that was comfy and liked she hated, everyone she liked which were..well.. hardly any, felt like sitting on a stone bench and were stupendously expensive! She has now ordered the most expensive, un-comfy, pile of carp available. Why? "because it is made from luxury Italian leather and is very stylish"
Christmas is coming up, god help me

er indoors insisted that we chuck out the 30 year old comfortable mattress and buy a new memory foam topped thing. completely uncomfortable and it makes the bed so high that you feet won't reach the floor if sitting on it, and you get dizzy looking down. there was better in a neighbour's skip when the house clearance boys were in. don't worry. it found a good home, along with the silent nite bed that was in the skip with it. ( see if she notices tonite).

 

[David M]

er indoors insisted that we chuck out the 30 year old comfortable mattress and buy a new memory foam topped thing. completely uncomfortable and it makes the bed so high that you feet won't reach the floor if sitting on it, and you get dizzy looking down. there was better in a neighbour's skip when the house clearance boys were in. don't worry. it found a good home, along with the silent nite bed that was in the skip with it. ( see if she notices tonite).

Yeah we have one of those things also and now I sweat like a pig in bed because of the thermal insulation from it. Obviously my missus loves it cause she's bloody cold when its 30 degrees outside!

 

[Pete999]

Yeah we have one of those things also and now I sweat like a pig in bed because of the thermal insulation from it. Obviously my missus loves it cause she's bloody cold when its 30 degrees outside!

Likewise she has a bloody heater in the Kitchen switched when it's roasting outside.

 

[telectrix]

mine won't switch the heating on till the windows ice up. still, she pays the gas bill so......

 

[Pete999]

mine won't switch the heating on till the windows ice up. still, she pays the gas bill so......

Crikey what is it with all this "she pays this, she pays that" Have I missed out on something?