Women & shopping

Croker · 30-05-2005, 17:26

Saturday I went out and my partner, (a woman) spent hours and hours buying stuff(mostly clothes) . Today, a sunday, we drove around trying to take it all back, only to discover that most of the reciepts have been mislaid or lost

anyone have any similar bank holiday revelry?

Chimaera · 30-05-2005, 17:29

Nope - I refuse point blank to go shopping on a Bank holiday weekend!
(Unless it's B&Q!

)
You could always let her go shopping on her own, Croker?

bdav · 30-05-2005, 18:05

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

(Unless it's B&Q!

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B&Q is the embodiment of hell - you walk in there confronted with offers of plastic tables for less than a mars bar, its impossible to find anything, and the only help are greasy teenagers who couldn't tell you the difference between a nail and a screw.

**Russ** · 30-05-2005, 18:09

Clothes shopping with the missus is a major chore so I'm usually found in the bbc*

*Bored Boyfriend's Corner - you've all seen it, the bit just outside the changing rooms where all the fellas congregate and mill about like cattle.

Bex · 30-05-2005, 18:18

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Originally Posted by Croker

Saturday I went out and my partner, (a woman) spent hours and hours buying stuff(mostly clothes) . Today, a sunday, we drove around trying to take it all back, only to discover that most of the reciepts have been mislaid or lost

anyone have any similar bank holiday revelry?

i hate clothes shopping. i must admit i will not spend hours looking for stuff... i go and find what i want and then leave.

russ mentioned the bored boyfriend corner, i normally sit in the bored friend corner... when i go shopping with the girls. i can think of much better ways to spend my time then shopping

Mal · 30-05-2005, 20:32

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

(Unless it's B&Q!

)

I got arrested once in there...this prat in an orange top comes upto me and asks me "do I want decking?", so I thought that I'd better get in there first

Chimaera · 30-05-2005, 20:35

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Originally Posted by bdav

B&Q is the embodiment of hell - you walk in there confronted with offers of plastic tables for less than a mars bar, its impossible to find anything, and the only help are greasy teenagers who couldn't tell you the difference between a nail and a screw.

Poor you! Our local B&Q is one of the enlightened ones that employs the 'older generation' - they are brilliant!
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Originally Posted by Mal

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

(Unless it's B&Q!

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I got arrested once in there...this prat in an orange top comes upto me and asks me "do I want decking?", so I thought that I'd better get in there first

@ Mal! Best I don't go shopping with you!

bmxbandit · 30-05-2005, 20:47

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Originally Posted by Russ D

*Bored Boyfriend's Corner - you've all seen it, the bit just outside the changing rooms where all the fellas congregate and mill about like cattle.

all they need is an xbox, or something... the first department store that does that gets my (gf's) custom!

Dave Stones · 30-05-2005, 20:49

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

Poor you! Our local B&Q is one of the enlightened ones that employs the 'older generation' - they are brilliant!

hmm take today.... some woman comes up to my colleague and asks for assistance, he doesnt know so sends her to me (i know more about jigsaw blades than him...)...

she then turns round and says to my colleague "it's better in B&Q, the staff there are older and so know more than you "people"... now with it being a very stressful day, i turned round to her and said "well **** off to B&Q then..."... minutes later she was queuing up at the checkouts with her jigsaw blades

funny thing being, B&Q next to our store is absolutely pants, the staff know nothing about anything...

so don't diss people in your hardworking hardware stores, we can get you banned if we want

[edit] or more simply, we can play dumb monkey like the little retail scrotes we are supposed to be (way we get treated anyway), and not help...

Xaccers · 30-05-2005, 20:50

Lingerie shopping is the best though

kronas · 30-05-2005, 21:06

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Lingerie shopping is the best though

never done that, very nearly did!

*wanders off to find a girlfreind

shopping can be quite therapeutic really, has been for a fair few people, alot of people like to spend their time umming and arring but its better to be direct or browse efficiently, although the time seems to fly when your shopping

**Matt D** · 30-05-2005, 21:10

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Lingerie shopping is the best though

Definitely. Only "clothes" shops I ever liked going to with my ex gf were Anne Summers & La Senza

Couldn't stand waiting around in normal clothes shops with her. So boring waiting for her to try things on, like them, change her mind, change her mind again, etc.... Still, she then had to put up with me wandering round HMV & GAME whenever we went shopping.

allieyoung666 · 30-05-2005, 22:02

No I like going to Whitby and the sea side, I cannot obide shopping on a bank holiday! Everytime I take Paul to shops like those hwe ends up drooling so I go on my own and then the supprise is twice as nice!!!
Mind you I did manage to buy a handbag in Whitby,but I do not like it now. PAUL take me back to whitby not!!!

xcdtowg · 30-05-2005, 23:55

I hate shopping with a passion! If i need cloths i get them off the net or go shopping at 9 in the morning when no one is around and i can be home by 10

Food shopping at tescos at 1am is fun though, get to run around with the trolleys when no ones around, not that i do that of cause

But why were you taking everything back? Is it some weird girl thing, lol, Plonkings sister goes shopping and takes it all back too

It really confuses me...

danielf · 31-05-2005, 00:11

My gf has only once asked me to come out when she was shopping for clothes. It is very rare for her to take anything back as well. Some of the posters in this thread should consider a change of gf imo