Shopping with Wife
When I was bachelor, shopping for me was to go to my regular
shops (a couple of them), select the stuff which catches my eye, pay and leave within
max 15 minutes. And that’s how it still works if I am shopping without my wife.
Shopping with the wife has opened my eyes to an analytic,
economic, gradual process of scrutinizing the plethora of options available. I
am really bedazzled by her knowledge of colors. My shade-card, I could count on
my fingers; but her color list needs a hefty hard-drive to store it. There are
many colors which I didn’t know and yet can’t pronounce well!
While shopping, I act as an assistant as she might ask
whether I like the stuff or not. It’s not that she wants to go with my
decision. She uses me when she had made the chaos out of the well maintained
shelves in the shop and now wants to try (read it as ruin) some other shop for
more options. What she does is that she asks me “What do you think about this
stuff?” while making an uninterested face (which is the hint for me to say no).
And as soon as I say no, she moves out; making me the culprit of putting the
shop upside down.
I really pity the guys working in those shops. If I put
myself in their shoes, I must have committed suicide by now instead of folding
and unfolding the countless cloths and eventually realizing that my shop is good
for nothing, there is not a single piece of cloth or a pair of shoe which could
barely match her expectations.
Time passed by and now our son too company us while shopping
for her, though he considers it as a nightmare (like father like son), it helps
me to share that helpless look, while my wife has another option to use son’s
irritation to move out of the shop.
Now, as I am backed by the years of experience, I
have discovered the pattern my wife follows. What I learnt is that it’s the very
first (or the second) shop from where she would eventually buy, provided it’s a
good bargain (that’s another story in itself); but still goes through all those
shops as a hurricane creating mess afterwards with a hope that she might find
something better than the first shop, which seldom happens.
Very true
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