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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Going shopping with my mother, all those years ago, taught me to just start at one end of the store and go aisle-to-aisle to the other end, and you don't have to backtrack. |
Doesn't work. Tinned product A is out of stock, so I go back to get dried product Y or fresh product X. Later on product Q is available on special offer, which means I also want products U, I and M to make recipe 43.... And then there's the fact that the shopping list is never perfectly aligned with the shop, and that some items seem to mysteriously move about.
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Of course, then I married a girl who just goes back and forth and back and forth and back and forth...
(In the store! In the store!)
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Which proves a personal hypothesis that male sons are taught one way to do things by their mothers, but their daughters are taught two ways to do anything. Thus once a heterosexual relationship is established, the female can always tell the male that they are doing it wrong....
By the way, do you often get arrested in the store?
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Waay overdue: Americans being the world's "comedy relief," a nation full of either Thurston Howell the millionths, or Jethro Bodines. It's time to show the world what the "wretched refuse" can do, when properly recycled.
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Couldn't they take on the role of the fall guy?
(If anyone mentions Lee Majors, I have a trebuchet loaded with angry, half starved squirrels ready to deploy....)