Topic: Shopping

[oldcoastie6468]

A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk and if they have avocados, get 6.
 
A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.

The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"

He replied, "They had avocados."

If you're a woman, I'm sure you're going back to read it again! Men will get it the first time.

[Libertas]

Heh!

This why the honey-do list came into being...and why all men instinctually hate them.

[Pandora]

One time I made a numbered shopping list.  Items 1, 2 and 3 were different light bulbs.  Gunsmith took the list out with him one day in order to be helpful.  He bought one of #1, two of #2, and three of #3 light bulbs.  He didn't do that with the rest of the items, though, so go figure.

I don't number the items on the list anymore.

[John Florida]

  I always took the list as a mere suggestion. I get most of the stuff on the list and then after that it's all bets are off and I buy whatever I  think is a good idea.

[AlanS]

I went grocery shopping one time and paid $.17 too much for 3 cans of corn. Evidently the brand I bought wasn't on sale. I didn't think I was EVER gonna hear the end of that.

[AmericanPatriot]

AlanS, are you married to my wife, too?

When my wife is forced to send me shopping, she sends me with a list and strict instructions that, if not followed, result in beatings.
I always wear long sleeve shirts so the bruises don't show.

But, like a good husband,I ignore the orders and get what I want.

In the words of that immortal philospher Tweety Bird: "If I dood it I get a whippin'.  I dood it anyhow"

[Pandora]

I have no problem with additions that are not on the grocery list.  Just make sure there's some meat.

[KittenClaws]

My husband and shopping?

Like the time he comes home with a gallon jar of jalapeños because they are less expensive when bought in bulk?

Or the time he comes home with four eight-packs of double roll paper towels?

 

[trapeze]

I used to get a phone call toward the end of the day with a list. Inevitably I would miss one or two or three items. Now I get a text. Much easier.

And then I buy whatever I want. Which is good since I do the prepper shopping.

[Predator Don]

I'm always sent with a list........and brand names too, because my wife knows if she tells me green beans, I will get the cheapest on the shelf. And I better not come back with an off brand chicken broth.

[John Florida]

I'm always sent with a list........and brand names too, because my wife knows if she tells me green beans, I will get the cheapest on the shelf. And I better not come back with an off brand chicken broth.

   Swanson,right?

[Pablo de Fleurs]

I'm pretty good in a grocery store...even Wal-Mart - but when my wife says she and/or our daughter needs, uhm...womanly things...

...I politely decline - even if she tears off a box top of the exact item...no (I hate that aisle, squinting, reading the features & bennies...wings - light - heavy...). 

Besides...they can bond if they go out for those items together 

[AlanS]

I'm pretty good in a grocery store...even Wal-Mart - but when my wife says she and/or our daughter needs, uhm...womanly things...

...I politely decline - even if she tears off a box top of the exact item...no (I hate that aisle, squinting, reading the features & bennies...wings - light - heavy...). 

Besides...they can bond if they go out for those items together 

My wife asked me to pick some of those up one time when I was running the roads with a buddy. I was in line wait to check out tossing them up in the air. I gave people enough credit to know they weren't for me. Plus it takes a lot to embarrass me.

[oldcoastie6468]

I sometimes did it for my wife, but I had no real problem with it.

[Septugenarian]

My wife gave up on me doing that looonnggg ago.

[Predator Don]

If you don't want to be run on errands for that sort of thing.....Just buy the wrong product once....problem solved.