Linna's Shopping Law VII

Saying for the day: A woman was born to shop and a man was born to wait.

Its time for another Linna’s Law of Shopping.
VII. A woman can not take just a moment in a store to get one item and come right back to the car.
Before you call me a male chauvinist pig who longs for the days of the patriarchy when men thought they were in control let me tell you this law is based on careful scientific research and a depth of personal experience.
Run this little experiment.
Look over the parking lot of any super store and see how many men are sitting in their cars waiting.
Now come back a half hour later and see how many of them are still there and you’ll see what I mean.
The other day we went with our daughter Pennie to Office Max.
On the way she wanted to stop at Sam’s Club.
“ I am just getting one item. I’ll be right back. You don’t need to come with me.”
So we waited and we waited.
My beard grew and my oxygen tank was almost empty.
If we had had a cell phone we would have called 911 and reported an alien abduction.
Then she comes pushing a cart so filled that she can hardly see where she was going.
“ When I got inside I remembered a few other things”, she said.

Yesterday we went to Menard’s to pick up a bolt for her saw.
She dropped the original inside when they were putting it together.
She had the size and the part number.
It should be a quick in and out.
I knew better.
Linna’s law was about to be tested by fire and I had a lasix hit so I went in with them.
After leaving the rest room I went directly to the nuts and bolts section expecting to find them there.
But they were nowhere in the area.
I checked the car they hadn’t yet returned.
So I did an aisle sweep.
Then I saw my daughter’s coat in the power tool section.
She and my wife were looking for a shop vac ( which she doesn’t have) attachment for her new saw so she can keep the saw dust in her work room down.
They were trying to match the number from the book with the numbers on the attachments.
I asked if they had asked a clerk ( of course not and they pick on us men because we won’t ask directions on a trip).
So I stopped one and told him they needed help.
It was that or spend the rest of the day there.
It seems that the part they wanted wasn’t in stock and had to be ordered out.
Which she did.
Then we picked up the bolts and checked out.
The time for a quick pick up some bolts was over an hour.
Don’t tell me Linna’s law VII doesn’t apply.

@@@@- News from Pigeon Falls– the little town in my garage where the trains still run and dragons fly– Nancy said that Tommy ( That’s Thomas M. Bradley IV our local resident writer) has invited her to dinner on Sunday to pay her back for all the help she has given him. She thinks she will accept the invitation because she has always wanted to see the inside of the old Hermit house. In the meantime Tommy has discovered the Liar’s club. He is listening to their old stories which they have on tape. It has given him another way to see the town through the eyes and imagination of others.
It snowed yesterday in Pigeon Falls. It was not a heavy snow, certainly not a blizzard, just a light dusting. But it made things feel right. It is January and there should be snow. Over at the Fly-Inn they have been having arguments about the lack of snow. Some blame global warming and George Bush for causing it or at least for doing nothing about it. The one token Republican says that global warming is nonsense. The planet warmed and cooled before with no people to blame. Its just the way things are and you can’t change them. They almost got into a fist fight over the issue. One of the more sober patrons stepped in and got them calmed down. The he got them talking about the New Potatoes, That’s a topic they all agree on. The school sports name has to be changed. Of course last week they had a fight over what it should be changed to. Somebody suggested “ The Savages” which upset Harold Hillman who is part Indian. He suggested instead the “Evil Finns” or the “Viscous Swedes”. That’s when the fight started. Hillman managed to give somebody a black eye before having both of them thrown out. Life is pretty normal in Pigeon Falls.
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