Nancy Young wrote:

> "Goomba38" > wrote
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>
>>You know how you might clip coupons for products you're not immediately in
>>need of or perhaps only going to buy and try if they go on sale and the
>>coupon makes them near free? I once had a running shopping list, and also
>>had cut the coupons out of the weekly insert paper and left them on the
>>counter. Hubster just grabbed list and coupons and bought everything I
>>asked for PLUS every thing I'd cut a coupon for. LOL He assumed I meant
>>for him to buy it all.
>
>
> Oh, that is so funny. That happened to me once, I made up a list for all
> these things, maybe I needed them, maybe I was thinking, it's on sale,
> maybe I'll get it maybe I won't. Ron grabbed the list without me knowing
> (not bringing the coupons I intended, either) and got every last thing.
> Including mascara and pantyhose. Damn and he got it right! Right color
> mascara (cept he got waterproof) and the right color and brand of
> stockings. Who knew he was paying attention!??
>
> Cracked me up, felt bad I'd assigned such a chore without meaning to.
> I still laugh at the thought of him poring over the different mascaras with
> all their different shaped wands, etc. He got it right!

I will not buy electronics or computer components for my husband, even
with a specific list:

"Oh no. This is the wrong thing. Why'd you buy this?"

"It's what you told me to get. Look, you even wrote it down."

"Yeah, but I *meant* the inverted wheegles, to cope with the increased
signal bleed. Look, you knew I was recombobulating the frackinator.
These things can't possibly weft the kligments."

Kathleen