Hello to all,
I require something—just one item—to complete a project. I enter the store, find the product that best fits my needs, and exit two minutes later. If there is a line at checkout, finding the egress might take three or four minutes.
I drop Tammy off at a store. She needs one item for the house. Forty-five minutes to an hour later, she comes out carrying three bags of many items. I open the hatch on the SUV for her to stuff all the purchases made that day.
I thought this was penance bestowed on myself and my life. Only my wife could enter a store requiring one item and come home with bags full of merchandise. I carried this burden alone with a firm smile of having a unique wife.
While watching a recent short video, I discovered I am not alone in this bizarre world. A man has his wife video him arriving home. She asked him to stop by the store for organic whipping cream. He pulls the cream out of the bull’s eye bag and presents it to her. She agrees it is correct and asks, “So, what is the big surprise?”
“I wanted to show you it was possible to shop at Target and come home with the one item you went in for.”
I shouted, “YES!” at this acknowledgment of my feelings for over thirty years of marriage. I showed Tammy the video proving it could be done, and it wasn’t just her husband complaining about it. Her side-eyed stare screamed, “We are both idiots for thinking this would change her or any woman’s shopping habits.”
I said it before, and I say it again: Men are not shoppers. We are buyers. A man enters the store, seeks the one item required, and buys it. A woman enters and meanders the store, allowing the aisle to tell her what she needs for the day. She will pick up a totally unrelated item from her goal, examine it, and then return it to the shelf.
This explains the YouTube video “Husbands of Target” by Charlie Berens, in which the husbands form a club in the parking lot to share food and drink while watching the game in the back of one of the cars while the wives spend hours shopping for one item.
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God bless,
Danny Mac
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