Sweater Shopping

Pete needed to get some sweaters but he has been putting it off for quite a while now.  The weather is getting colder by the day so he couldn't put it off any longer.  Finally we came round to the shopping today.  We went to a mall in the outskirts of town called Mobilia.  There are quite a number of clothing stores there so we know we should be able to find something for him.

To be honest, he doesn't enjoy shopping, be it for grocery, clothes, furniture or even techie gadgety stuff.  He hates shopping.  Period.  He's the type who would do his research online then head out with a shopping list in mind, go into a store, get what's on the list, pay and get home as quickly as possible.  He is the complete opposite of me.  I love to linger and look at what's on offer, especially when we go grocery shopping.  That is a recipe for a clash of minds, sometimes - he wants to be done quickly while I wanted more time.

So, knowing full well his aversion to shopping, I had already narrowed down the search to just three stores.  At the first store, he couldn't find anything nice in his size.  At the second store, he was happy with a sweater and was ready to pay for it but I told him that's not the way to shop for clothes - what if there are better buys in other stores?

I managed to get him to check out the last store first to see if there were more stuff there that he would prefer.  And there were.  He found a couple of sweaters he liked more than the one in the other store.  In the end, he settled on two decent looking sweaters.  Happy days all round - he loves his sweaters, I get to shop.