A Uniquely Male Problem: Ah, yes. I remember those days. :sm03: I should have brought an empty tool box and put the pocketbook inside that.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Ah, yes. I remember those days.

I should have brought an empty tool box and put the pocketbook inside that.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I can’t tell you how many boring hours I spent in women’s clothing departments waiting on my previous wife shopping (maybe that had something to do with her being previous ). Thank the Lord my current wife does her shopping alone (probably so I won’t know what she spends) - maybe that’s one reason we’ve been married for 40 years.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

TriX wrote:

I can’t tell you how many boring hours I spent in women’s clothing departments waiting on my previous wife shopping (maybe that had something to do with her being previous ). Thank the Lord my current wife does her shopping alone (probably so I won’t know what she spends) - maybe that’s one reason we’ve been married for 40 years.

I remember more than once being with a couple of other men in the same situation - holding a pocketbook outside the changing room. No one wanted to make eye contact.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

NO way would I have my husband go shopping with me!!!!!!!!!!!!! perhaps that is why we are still together.65 years married.

RowdyRay Loc: MN

Oh yeah. Been there, done that. So what? You had to hold the purse. Always made a joke out of it. I'd ask the other brooding husbands if it matched my shoes or belt. Usually got a chuckle or a smile. Lightened the mood.

There are far more embarrassing things a wife can ask of you.

Plieku69 Loc: The Gopher State, south end

My wife was a professional shopper, a lot of her obsession was a side effect of her Parkinson's medicine. I proudly carried her purse, pushed her chair, patiently waited near changing rooms for 13 years.
She's gone now, four years ago and I still miss those days. That time was the good old days.

LenCreate

Around here the seats outside of the dressing rooms are known as shmuck seats.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

TriX wrote:

I can’t tell you how many boring hours I spent in women’s clothing departments waiting on my previous wife shopping (maybe that had something to do with her being previous ). Thank the Lord my current wife does her shopping alone (probably so I won’t know what she spends) - maybe that’s one reason we’ve been married for 40 years.

Took my other half shopping with me ONCE to the grocery store when we were first married and had to stock the cupboards. The carriage ended up overflowing with junk food as that's the way his mother shopped.
Never again!

JADAV

My family were on a shopping trip in the city when my son's girlfriend noticed my facial expression. "Aren't you enjoying this trip?" she asked in a surprised voice. She was even more surprised by my response, " I'd rather be driving a rusty 6 inch nail into my own eye with a toffee hammer!".

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

jerryc41 wrote:

Ah, yes. I remember those days.

I should have brought an empty tool box and put the pocketbook inside that.

I work part-time in a retail setting. When I see a man with a purse I'll go up to him and tell him I'm with the fashion police and he really shouldn't use a black purse when wearing brown shoes -- or something like that depending on the color scheme. We both usually get a laugh out of that.

Morry Loc: Palm Springs, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

Ah, yes. I remember those days.

I should have brought an empty tool box and put the pocketbook inside that.

When I got curious glances of me holding my wife's purse . . . I would sometimes ask "How do you like my new purse?" It was always good for a laugh.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

The trick is to not hold it the way most women do, with the strap over the shoulder. Just hold it in your hand like you were holding a sack lunch or something, with the strap dragging on the floor.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

I don’t understand why a man would be embarrassed about holding his wife’s or significant other’s purse while waiting for her to try on clothing. Are you that insecure in your maleness?

Stan

Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV

Been there, I just tell them I recently got my carry permit and my gun is too large to fit in a pocket

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

I have an LL Bean black ergonomic shoulder bag that my other half carried over his shoulder through many of our trips. It held water, snacks and my camera and he ended up with it while I was being the official picture taker on our trips as he had no interest in photography other than seeing the pictures when we got home. Didn't bother him in the slightest especially in Italy where we saw a lot of guys with one type of shoulder bag or another.