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Pre-Shopping Spanking — 10 Comments

  1. LOL, I’m not quite so bad as all that. But I do view shopping as a mission, to be executed with dispatch and efficiency. If an activity is not on the mission checklist, it’s probably an enemy diversion that will only interfere with execution of the mission. 😉

    One thing’s for sure, though. When the shopping list is all checked off and we’re heading for the register, the last thing I want to hear is “Hang on!” as Bethie vanishes down an aisle full of mysterious feminine objects. She’d have me standing there for twenty minutes, if I would. And then come back and patiently explain “But I *told* you, I saw something I thought I needed!” Yes, dear, that will be four swats with your favorite paddle — two for running off without explanation and two for telling me to “hang on” first.

    All spanking fun aside, we shop best together with two carts, two cell phones, and a rondezvous point.

  2. Wow, I can’t believe Dan doesn’t try his shoes on before buying them! And no samples either? How are supposed to know if it’s good to eat?

    But, truth be told, I bet he gets the household shopping done much sooner than you (or I) ever would! LOL

  3. I am behind you 100% Dan. Shopping IS a mission to be executed with dispatch and efficiency. And standing in some strange isle, like the feminine hygeine isle, talking to a person who was just there a second ago, is worth so many spankings, the zeros would cover a whole 8 1/2 x 11 page! Hee hee hee . . .

  4. Yup, having two phones has saved my butt more than once. LOL

    Sandy, he might be faster but believe me, it\’s better if I do it. I\’m afraid of what he\’d substitute if something I asked for wasn\’t available. I might even have to return something! Eeeeek! 😉

    Whirlbrain, isn\’t it better to be left at the end of the aisle looking confused rather than standing in the middle of the aisle looking even more confused? That\’s what I tell Dan anyway. *grin*

  5. As for shoes, if you need to try them on, you are shopping below your size. Pick a size that always fits and just buy that size, already. It is much more efficient, and that way you do not have to deal with those creepy foot fetishists who always seem to work as shoe salesmen.

  6. Yikes – it would be bliss to have feet that shoes always fit! I’ve got shoes ranging from 1 size below to one size above my actual size – and they all currently fit perfectly… buying without trying on is just not an option 🙁

  7. Am, I’ve been trying to explain the diffences in women and men’s shoe sizing for over a year now. I also have shoes in multiple sizes. If I shopped like Dan I’d spend half my shopping time in the return line. LOL

  8. You know what’s even worse? A. will go into a men’s store and say, “give me a pair of black pants and two shirts in [X] size, and a tie to go with them.”
    ACCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! spontaneous combustion! short circuit!

  9. Claire, eeeeeek! Dan read your comment and asked “What’s wrong with that?” They don’t get it. Buying clothes without trying them on and checking them out in a three way mirror is a recipe for disaster as far as I’m concerned. Men!

  10. I have to say that I’m 100% on your side on this one, Bethie. There is nothing bratty or even unusual in your behavior. I don’t really enjoy shopping very much usually, so I try to make it as much fun as possible – that means chiming the windchimes, pressing the little buttons that make things run, and trying the samples. And it’s important to get what you want – I mean, it is your money after all. It only becomes bratty when a shopper makes a clerk work extra hard to fill all sorts of specialty orders that the poor clerk’s salary level and training really don’t support.

    Personally I almost never go running off while shopping. I’m ready to roll as soon as possible, so we differ there – but otherwise, I think you are right as rain.

    Sounds as though Dan is a little bit on the shy side. He doesn’t want to draw a lot of attention to himself perhaps?

    ~hugs~

    –Invidia