Kathleen wrote:

> 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:
>

I won't either AND he know's not to buy any for me. We have very
different tastes when it comes to electronics and computers! I won't
buy tools for DH either.

> "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
>