"I just need five minutes in the grocery store"...Uh Hu

i don't shop unless it's for bog-rolls or meat. if they hint at it, i tell them they can come get me from the pub when they're done.

 

For me it's Walgreens. "I just need to pick up a couple things." Which of course translates into "I'm going to stand and stare at the makeup for an hour." It never fails, too. She inevitably asks me if I remember which foundation she bought last time. "Did I get Natural Beige Tan, or Tan Natural Beige?"

Huh?!

 

Peter, I made this mistake one day when I was with my best friend. He's a new dad, and had to make a grocery pit-stop for various family stuff. What went from a "it'll be 10 minutes max" turned into nearly an hour, with his kid screaming the entire time. And since he was driving, there was no way to get out of it. I came out of the store with a headache, and a greater appreciation of why I am childless and happy about it. I've been friends with him for over 25 years, but I'll never go to a grocery store with him again if he's with a child.

 

Peter, you've had to learn that lesson the hard way.

I never run errands. My time is way to valuable for that BS. I drew that line a long time ago.

 

I feel your pain. What is it with that place?

 

10 minutes in the grocery store ??? What about 10 minutes in the hardware store? When my husband says he has to run into the hardware store, then we have to go look for stainless hardware,OMG it's like me seeing shoes. He wants to look at everything,then he decides he is going to buy, then everything gets seperated in those little bags! UGH, it takes us for friggin ever!

 

That sounds irritating, but I assume from their perspective, we've got our vices too:

"Honey, only 10 minutes in the Ferrari store, I promise."

{comes out 90 minutes later with a deposit on a 360 Spider.} -

 

Vik......come on man.......help us out here........LOL !!!

We don't ask them to come car shopping with us.....but they always guilt us into going to the mall with them more often than not. GAWD....I just hate it.....it's been 5 years since our Parisian honeymoon and the wife is still bringing up the fact that I complained and didn't let her go to "Galleries Lafayette"...........one of the famous shopping malls in Paris...........

PeterS.........

On behalf of men everywhere, I feel your pain bro' !!

I decide what I need, go to the store, identify the product and perform a cursory price/value comparison, pay for it and leave, 5 minutes man.......it's over........LOL !!!.......it's how I buy cars too..........no big deal.......but women......ohhh nooooo........they've got to look at every single little detail and then consult their "Ouija" board before they buy anything.

For me anyways..........it's always been the most frustrating aspect of the male/female relationship IMHO........can't you tell.

Rant over..........

 

If she left you, you'd give anything you had to be able to join her on one more 'five minute trip' to the store.

Be glad for what you have - she might not be there tomorrow.

 

Ditto, the very same thing happened to me and I also never again went into a grocery store with him.

 

every Sunday this happends when we go shopping. She won't go by herself for some reason, and she refuses to make a list of the items she needs to buy. So she ends up buying something she already has, or forgets to buy somthing she needs, and then I have to go out and get it later once she realizes she forgot somthing important!!! Arrrggggg!! Drives me nuts!

 

I absolutely HATE grocery shopping - especially with an SO. It seriously has to be one of my least favorite things ever. I normally consider myself a pretty sharp guy but I think my IQ drops about 50 points when I step into the store. I invariably end up wandering aimlessly through the aisles not knowing where anything is, or what to buy. With an SO, it gets even worse. I just turn completely miserable and the trip always ends up lasting 1 hour or more.

 

WOW! Fchat is such a good resource..man, with all this info i know im not getting married or having kids. Thanks guys!

 

Try as I might, I've never been able to get the "shopping efficency" point across.. I usually just try to avoid it.

On a similar note, the supermarket down the street put in about 6 of these babies a few months ago. If I'm on a tear I can usually get in and out in the same amount of time it takes some people to load groceries in their car AND there is no cashier to give me a weird look for buying a bottle of Vodka with a broom handle and a box of condoms!
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The way it works is in trade-offs..........

Her '5 minutes' that turns out to be 60 at the grocery store is equal to YOUR 5 minutes at the electronics superstore that turns out to be 60.

Let's face it: we all know what the definition of '5 minutes', let alone '5 items' is to a woman, so it should come as no surprise to you. I mean, really ?

CMY I'll go you one better: a few months ago, there was a girl in a high-school letter jacket ('06) checking out in front of me, she had 3 things: tampons, condoms, and a self-test pregnancy kit. A rather unusual combination.

 

I think the store should automatically give a discount when you use the self checkout thing since they don't have to pay someone to stand there and scan everything.

 

come on Peter, a woman says she's only going to be in Mervyns for five minutes???? yeah, right.... If a guy says it, you can set your watch by it, 'caude he wants to get whatever he needs and get the f*ck outta' there!

 

I'm the official grocery shopper of the family these days.

Grocery shopping is now a quick and efficient process.

 

Yeah, we do all our shopping separately. Mrs Dubai is a wonderful woman, but she can go grocery shopping, come back with a dozen bags, and there will be NOTHING TO EAT! I'm absolutely not kidding. But it's cool, cos I do all the cooking anyway. And we have a cleaning lady in once a week...hmm, why do I keep her around? Oh, yeah, I remember now!

 

5 min in grocery store = 1hour


other side of the coin



Honey there is only 5 min left in the football game = 1hour

 

and i thought you did all your food shopping at dunkin donuts.....

 

This is how I solved that problem: she asked me to go shopping with her. I said yes. Made sure that she only looked for and bought those items on the list. Couldn't go :"looking". At that point, I was no fun, and she doesn't ask me to shop with her. Saved some money, and a whole bunch of time.

I hate to shop, when I have to, I make a list of exactly what I need, and refuse to buy anything other than what's on the list. However, when it comes to shopping for the car, that's a different story.

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That right there is birth control.