Goff and Jesse

Pearl

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There's an elderly couple that go to our local shopping centre, they must be in their 80s. He holds her hand all the way round carrying shopping and helping her reach things, they walk around with the same shell shocked expression that Goff and Jesse have and I was watching them this morning, they looked like such a devoted and loving couple probably never had an argument and watch Eastenders every night with a cup of tea and some custard creams. In comparison! Him in doors and I walk in a shop he goes in one direction I go in the other he's got the flaming trolley and I'm walking round Tesco's with arms full of stuff trying not to drop the eggs at the same time as ringing him asking where he is with blooming empty trolley! You look at other marriages sometimes and think! Blimey he'd drive me crazy! I think I'd rather be trying to track him down like a Navajo scout and shouting at him in the bacon aisle of Tesco than be like Goff and Jesse. But each to his own.
 
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My wife disappears in the supermarket, we will be looking in the freezer and making suggestions on what we may need, 5 seconds later she has vanished and I am talking to a stranger and asking will this be okay for our tea tonight, I then spend time doing the isle dash to find her.
Not anymore though, I just start chatting to any attractive lady I can find and my wife appears as if by magic.
 
Well, we have developed a system that works. I go off in one direction and get milk, cottage cheese, crackers, etc. and he goes off in another direction and gets grapes, croissants, etc. and then we eventually meet and go to check-out. Occasionally, thinking that he is right behind me, I have been known to issue orders only to find that I actually was addressing a strange man. Oh dear.
 
Mrs WM does our weekly shop, mainly because she gets up earlier than me and I have an annoying health condition that means I can't always do what I want when I want. At least it saves arguments while walking around the supermarket
We usually go together because if I send him with a list he makes worse substitutions than Tesco! No washing up liquid! 2 bottles of beer will do! And on one occasion I sent him to buy toiletries for me I had to send him with pictures! He came home very proud of the fact he asked an assistant for help him by showing her the pictures! There's a shop assistant at Savers who went home one Saturday and said, you'll never guess what happened today! Some woman sent her husband shopping with pictures!
Since he retired I have to take him with me or he goes in the garden and starts demolishing greenhouses or greenbean structures. I'm now in a Stockholm syndrome situation.
 
We usually go together because if I send him with a list he makes worse substitutions than Tesco! No washing up liquid! 2 bottles of beer will do! And on one occasion I sent him to buy toiletries for me I had to send him with pictures! He came home very proud of the fact he asked an assistant for help him by showing her the pictures! There's a shop assistant at Savers who went home one Saturday and said, you'll never guess what happened today! Some woman sent her husband shopping with pictures!
Since he retired I have to take him with me or he goes in the garden and starts demolishing greenhouses or greenbean structures. I'm now in a Stockholm syndrome situation.
Is that better or worse than having a Travis?
 
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