Real Texas Shopping

Sometimes a man just does what he has to do.  I’m talkin’ about going shopping with your significant other.

I often go with my wife to the store just because we are usually together in the vehicle when we are in town.
On occasion, I will just drive up to the front door of a store and drop her off.

She says, “are you coming in?”  I say no, and then go park so I can take a nap.

I love taking naps out in the pickup while she is in the store.  I just about doze off when she bangs on the glass wanting back in.

It was earlier this week when she wanted to go to Sam’s.  I reluctantly go in and do my basket pushing duties like a bunch of the other old fools, but it is not all that enjoyable.

Why?

Because my idea of what is important differs dramatically from what she considers important.  And the prices she pays for some of the food just amazes me.

She needs help….bad!

Here is a good example:  She grabbed a bag of assorted bell peppers from a stack.  I looked up at the price and the bag of 6 or so peppers was like $6.98.  That’s over a dollar a pepper.

That’s just too much.

The produce guy was re-stocking that particular display when I was pointing out the cost and I was informed I was talking too loud about the exhorbitant price of the peppers.  I just replied to her that I WANTED the guy to know his peppers cost too much.  She replied that they were not HIS peppers and that he only worked there and had no control over Sam’s pricing policies.

Fair enough.

That’s probably true,  but they still cost too much.

On the other hand, she vetoed my good idea of purchasing a gallon can of chocolate pudding.  I love chocolate pudding and she know it.  You can get some really good bargains when you buy the large containers and I considered this to be a bargain if I ever saw one.  A whole gallon of chocolate pudding for a nominal price is a bargain.

Same thing for the three pack of lemon pound cake.  You can buy three good size loaves of lemon pound cake for $5.82.  Now just imagine how good a half a lemon pound cake would be with  a large glass of cold milk.

Delicious.  I can almost taste it, can’t you?

But no, that good idea went down just like the gallon of chocolate pudding.

In my opinion, it’s just not logical.  The peppers you can enjoy only one time.  On the other hand, you can enjoy half a loaf of lemon pound cake and several glasses of cold milk at least 6 times.  Which seems like the better bargain to you?

I don’t understand it.  Why is buying 6 bell peppers for $6.98 a good idea…and buying 3 loaves of lemon pound cake NOT a good idea?

Sometimes women just don’t understand the logic of shopping wisely.

She purchased a case of paper towels, assorted vitamins, some meat, and a huge bag of cat food and a huge bag of dog food.

I explained that when I was a kid, we often just went out and shot a jackrabbit and the dogs enjoyed it for several days.  The dog food she bought has rice, vegetables, and a bunch of other non-food items that can’t be good for dogs…..even though my dog once enjoyed an entire cardboard box full of styrofoam peanuts.

She said they HAD to have the huge bags of dogfood and that her dogs lived to be 40 years old or so.  What I took that to mean was that the dogs will be outliving me and they will enjoy their vegetable laden dog food all the days of their lives….spare no expense.

OK, I’m not going there either. Chalk that up to a no win for me on the chocolate pudding and the lemon pound cake and the uneccessary dogfood.

I went off by myself.  I took pictures of some other good bargains.  Here they are:

So much for my input on shopping.

I’m David out in Real Texas

Back to napping in the parking lot