Wanna know the worst shopping experience you can have? Going clothes shopping with other women ! No kidding! What's your WORST?

You just shattered a myth in my head. I know the salesjerks pounce on women and treat them shabbily. I thought a guy walks in, sez what he wants and gets it! So you have to manipulate them and massage them and play them? Hah! Good to know. My mom sewed all our clothes. But when she got older and we were grown and gone she was a shopper extraordinaire! She LOVED clothes shopping. When she passed away at 95 there were clothes in her closet she had never worn! The tags were still on them. I inherited quite a few. Me? I used to kinda like shopping when top-end stores had a yearly SPECTACULAR sale At Bullock's I'd regularly get a $100 thing for $30 or less. I am talking SPECTACULAR.  I've always loved to get a good deal. But normally clothes shopping bored the he** outta me. I was way happier in a bookstore or a store that sold cooking equipment. Now basically I just do grocery shopping. My eyes aren't what they used to be so I don't read as much. I have enough clothes for 3 lifetimes so buying more is absurd. Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply Walt. Playing games. A national pastime even off the court or field! :) This post was edited by RosieG at January 24, 2020 12:20 PM MST

I used to love going to the local used book stores.
They often had treasures you can't find in the big-name book stores.

I once found a biography of a guy who worked the lumber camps around Astoria (OR) - then went up to the gold fields of Alaska.
I learned from him, that more people were shanghai'd from the lumber camps and farms, than from all the shanghai bars and brothels in Astoria.  That was the main reason the lumberjacks and farmers carried firearms when working the woods and fields.
Then, I was telling a coworker about the book and mentioned the guy's name - and it turns out he was related, but they never knew what happened to him after he left Astoria.  So after reading the book, I gave it to my coworker to add to his family history records.

Nowadays, we never would have known about that book ... because you can't just "browse the aisles" on the internet, like you can in a store.

Oh my gosh I just got chills Walt! You read an obscure book and casually mentioned it to a co-worker who just "happened" to be related to the guy you read about? See it's stuff like that which makes me wonder if "coincidence" really exists or if everything is the result of a grand plan. What are the odds of what you experienced and is there any way to calculate that? I thought only drunks got shanghai'd! Did you get any chills when you learned about your coworker's relationship to that guy? That's why ya never know what you're gonna find out/encounter when you converse with folks! Vis a vis bookstores. Years ago (I might have told you this before) I took a vacation to Carmel, California. Spent most of my time in a used bookstore there. Found a few first editions of favorite authors. Before I flew home I had to buy a suitcase because the one I came with was filled with books! Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end! Happy Saturday! This post was edited by RosieG at January 25, 2020 1:25 AM MST