For My Husband

Other women are fun to shop with.
Not that I would be caught in a store on Black Friday.
I have not done that for over forty years.

But I only shop with a woman if I can help it
Because they know …..
when you enter a store together,
you LEAVE the store together

Neither of you buy a newspaper and a donut
and mosey out to sit and wait in the car

while your wife looks frantically up and down the aisles
for thirty-nine minutes, wondering if you have been abducted.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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George Avatar
November 27, 2021 at 10:51 PM
This is exactly what happens, when going out for shopping together... ! Can very well relate.... :) :)
Krutsinger Avatar
November 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
Thank you so much
Rodrigues Avatar
November 27, 2021 at 8:52 PM
Yup! But if you wander away you get scolded.
Krutsinger Avatar
November 28, 2021 at 7:02 PM
I go out to the car now first when I am with him, because I finally figured out he does not follow the unwritten rules.
Hankins Avatar
November 27, 2021 at 7:46 PM
Oh my! I thought Deb and I were the only ones that had this running argument. She would just simply disappear on me, and I would be frantically looking for her. I finally told her the next time she did that I was going to go to the car and go on home and she could call me when she was ready to come home. She said, "I'll be in the car!" Seriously????
Krutsinger Avatar
November 28, 2021 at 7:02 PM
No there are apparently more than two of them.
Rodrigues Avatar
November 27, 2021 at 8:53 PM
LOL!
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