How many of you have gone shopping with your g/f's and wives thinking that your just going into the store to grab a movie, only to be forced to walk around the entire building "just looking". This drives me absolutely nuts. I just got in a heep of trouble because i didn't want to go shopping with my girlfriend and her mom, why? because i know it should take 20 mins top to get from our house to the store and back, but its gonna take them over 2 hours.
I tried the "i'm tired and don't wanna go out" excuse but my g/f's mom countered back with a "i work harder then you" and got mad at me. Bull****. i pulled 10 hour days last week with no breaks inorder to get a bunch of free breakfest orders out and done with. PLus i had my regular work load plus more since its busy this time of year. I admit i don't sleep proper hours, and maybe thats my fault, but damn i don't wanna be dragged around a store looking at "everything". I go in knowing what i want, and i leave with what i want. How do the rest of you guys get outta this?:faint:

I'm a girl but I had to say this, cuz this is what I do with MY friends anyway, lol...
I hate shopping, I hate "malling" I hate "browsing" and I tell my friends that honestly. They need to respect that or they know I will not be "haning" out with them anymore. I'll do lunch I'll go to the movies, I'll "run" to the store but that's it, I'll "chill" with them. IMO honesty is the best policy, I just say I don't like it, I'd rather do somthing else than "shop". If they want to do that I'll hang with them another time, it's cool. They know, I know and that's how we maintain our friendship.... try just being honest. Bottom line for you and your girlfriend.... don't "try to get out of it" just tell her honestly. My fiance used to try the "dodge" approach and I'd get annoyed but when he explained the truth, he didn't like doing whatever, I was like "oh, ok, why didn't you say so?". So now we take this approach when it comes to these things, I don't know what your g/f's like, but it's always the best way to deal with people in general :)

Oh dear god yes. I hate shopping.

Hate it, hate it, hate it.

I have even coined a term, "man shopping", to distinguish the way I got to the mall from the way any of the women in my life do. Where they go and not only have to look through the entire store, but check out the competitors, I go in, og right to the store I want, find something, buy it, and leave.

Even when it comes to Christmas and birthday gifts.

No, this doesn't mean I'm careless. I've typically thought about what to get the person beforehand, and if it's expensive, researched prices online so I know what's reasonable. Especially since, if I find it cheaper later that day somewhere else, 98.2% of all stores do returns, so I can get the cheaper one and return the other.

And taking 5 minutes to do the return is a lot less time-intensive than browsing through 6 stores. So I really don't understand the "I don't want to waste time" argument that's always tossed back at me.


Heck, I even used to, as a protest, do all my Christmas shopping after the 20th of December (except for gifts that had to be sent through the mail, of course). Not only could I get good gifts, ones that were among the most enjoyed the people recieved, I was typically finished by the end of the 21st, having spent a grand total of maybe 5-6 hours in the mall. Which is pretty good, considering the lines.

Now, of course, I do my shopping earlier, so I avoid the lines. But I don't need to spend any more time looking or browsing.

Absolutely hate it also. Get what you need and get the heck out of there.

Wife likes to shop. She is in a wheel chair. Add me gets distracted and look away and when I look back she is gone. I get on my hands and knees looking under clothes racks trying to find her. Have lost her for more than 20 minutes before. Not her fault but this drives me crazy.

I also hate shopping with my wife. (I love her dearly, BTW), and I enjoy doing many things with her, but I cannot stand to go shopping with her at department stores or malls.
Because, like Chemical said earlier, you never know how long its gonna take!! I'd much prefer knowing that, par exemple, she let me look in the sports department while she tried on clothes. Or even another store. But no... I have to stand there waiting to give approval on each painstaking item that is tried on. My ADD wants to kick in and wander elsewhere.
I'm sure I'm not the only one out there.

-HocusFocus

when i wander off while the wife is looking at stuff, i get lost, i mean i can be in t he same store, and it takes another 20 minutes to find her, and of course she gets mad cuz i went sight seeing. :p :cool:

I'm a girl but I had to say this, cuz this is what I do with MY friends anyway, lol...
I hate shopping, I hate "malling" I hate "browsing" and I tell my friends that honestly. They need to respect that or they know I will not be "haning" out with them anymore. I'll do lunch I'll go to the movies, I'll "run" to the store but that's it, I'll "chill" with them. IMO honesty is the best policy, I just say I don't like it, I'd rather do somthing else than "shop". If they want to do that I'll hang with them another time, it's cool. They know, I know and that's how we maintain our friendship.... try just being honest. Bottom line for you and your girlfriend.... don't "try to get out of it" just tell her honestly. My fiance used to try the "dodge" approach and I'd get annoyed but when he explained the truth, he didn't like doing whatever, I was like "oh, ok, why didn't you say so?". So now we take this approach when it comes to these things, I don't know what your g/f's like, but it's always the best way to deal with people in general :)
Tried, tested and not true. I have used the truth(first thing i tried) and it doesn't work. i get nagged on. Its not that i don't like to go out, its that when i want to buy something, i'm in and out and on my way to doing other things. I don't see how going to the drug store to buy advil should take an hour, its only 10 mins away. I think I'll just try to explian how i feel about this to my g/f, but thanks for the help:D

Absolutely hate it also. Get what you need and get the heck out of there.

Wife likes to shop. She is in a wheel chair. Add me gets distracted and look away and when I look back she is gone. I get on my hands and knees looking under clothes racks trying to find her. Have lost her for more than 20 minutes before. Not her fault but this drives me crazy.

I hate shopping with a passion. I'd much rather buy what I need from the factory via internet which generally saves me money to begin with. When I go grocery shopping I save all the store fliers and go to Walmart since they honor any other competitor's price or coupons so its a one stop, shop for me.

I lose my husband often because he is the brouser--CELL PHONES!!!!!!! have saved our marriage. I used to get highly irrate when I could buy an entire months worth of groceries and he'd still be dinking around in the sports section without anything in his cart. :mad: Now I just call him and tell him I have two aisles left and the bus is heading out in 45 minutes. He meets me at the register and we are done and out of there.

I don't shop. I buy. I've been married for nearly 20 years and everyone knows, I don't stand in lines, I don't shop and I must keep things moving. :D We've adapted to accommodate each others needs.

I do a lot of buying on line. I prefer to browse catalogues than stores.

I do like shopping for lingerie with PU though. I display a reasonable attention span with the right stimulus. :P
Cheers! Ian.

That is the one thing I cannot take my husband shopping for. I restrict what I spend on such frivolties so I buy for comfort and function. While he's walking around going "Ooooo pretty" "look honey leather" etc etc etc. I buy my unmentionables alone.

Although I've never complain he brings me a little something home once in awhile. ;)

Well I have yet another thing in common with men!!!!!! Shopping UGgggggg my boyfriend can go buy a half gallon of milk be gone for three hours and come back with seven sacks of stuff.

I make list so we don't end up with seven tubs of butter, four bottles of shampoo, ect... when I point out we already have too much of this that or the other I always get the "honey it was on sale"

He has bought me three pair og black shoes, I mean how many pair of black shoes does one woman need??????

I am with Pigeon here about the honest thing. Gary has fussed about me "never wanting to go with him to the store" I tell him right up that it would be okay if we drove to the store got what we wanted and left but a trip with him can be an all day project.

Ohhhhh he has nagged me into going only once as I nagged him the entire time he was brousing. I kept asking "are we done yet??? are we done yet???? Is it time to go home yet???? Can we go home now???? Are we done yet???? I am hungry!!!!! I am hungry!!!!!!! Can I go potty???? Is it time to go home yet???


You can learn a lot from your children!!!!!!!