This post isn't about iPads. It's not about tablets. It's not about any high-tech gizmos. It is about what may be the most low-tech item on market shelves.
Yes, those pads.
It's only a slight exaggeration when I say I have to buy them every blasted time I go to the grocery store. How is that possible? HOW???
As a husband, I've made plenty of emergency trips to the store (often at midnight) to purchase this particular item. To avoid that, I started keeping a spare package in my car. Because children grow up, I now have to keep two different spare packages in my car. I don't like this. I miss the old days when it was something no one discussed and dad's had no idea what was going on. Dad's shouldn't have to buy such things. I want to have no idea what's going on!!!
It was easier when I was a little boy. Every once in a while my mom would ask me to go to my grandmother's store to bring back a "package". Usually she would tell me what she needed (milk, eggs, etc.). But she never mentioned what was in the "package" (a plain, brown paper bag), just that I wasn't supposed to look in it. For years I didn't look in the bag. But as I got older curiosity got the better of me. I looked. Why couldn't it have been drugs instead?
It taught me a good lesson. I learned that when someone doesn't want to tell me something, there's a good chance I don't need to know it--and an even better chance I don't WANT to know it.
Why do kids have to grow up??? *sigh* (Just to be clear, I mean my kids, not me.)
Have a great weekend!
That is a good question!
ReplyDeleteClever idea to keep spare ones in your car :)
I also have emergency rolls of TP tucked away in the house. :)
DeleteHa! I loved your question "why couldn't it have been drugs instead?" I am sure you meant the legal kinds of drugs you get from the pharmacy, but that's not what first came to mind. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's funny it came out that way because I was starting to feel like a "mule" carrying illegal drugs. But of course my grandmother would never have been involved in anything like that. Some grandmothers, sure, but not mine. :)
DeleteSo lovely post, good weekend! kisses
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Hahahahah... that cracks me up because my dad probably feels the exact same way having raised two daughters
ReplyDeleteDaughters are wonderful, but...well, yeah, I'm sure your dad understands. I wonder if he ever resorted to stockpiling items to avoid midnight trips to the store??? :)
DeleteHaha, omg.. I can't believe you have to go buy them. I don't think I've ever made my husband buy them for me! And I always keep an extra "package" in the house. I've never run out our needed an emergency trip.. maybe that's the OCD side of me. I do the same thing with other essentials like toilet paper and shampoo. We have a backup of everything, haha! :)
ReplyDeletexo, Yi-chia
Always Maylee
Never??? Wow, he's very lucky (which I already knew, but this is another reason). OCD can have really wonderful aspects to it. I don't think I have it, but I do have 2 rolls of TP hidden for emergencies and my house was really neat when I lived alone. Hmmm...maybe I do! :)
DeleteHaha! Maybe you should just hoard them at one go instead? What a good husband you are, though!
ReplyDeleteI need to stop calling on my way home from work to see if she needs anything from the store. :)
DeleteSorry, man!
ReplyDeleteI don't ask my hubs to buy that stuff for me because I get it on-the-cheap and he would never go to such lengths. I'm stocked up. Never run out. Unless I'm on vacay and didn't pack. Even then, I go myself.
It started with the late-night runs to the store. She'd get out of the shower, tell me she received a "surprise" and needed to go to the store. Since she was in her pj's, I'd go instead. Before long it became a routine thing for me to pick them up. I'm used to it now, but it does bother me that somehow she always needs them when I'm going to the store. It seems like I buy them more often than the big 3--milk, bread and toilet paper.
DeletePS - It's the least a good hubby can do! Hopefully it makes up for other things I do. :)
Deletei carry extras in my purse for those "just in case" moments. i swear, men have no idea how easy they have it!
ReplyDeletebtw, i make my hubs get some for me if i run out and he's out running errands under one condition: i have to send him a picture of it so he knows which ones to get because he refuses to ask someone lol
I'm glad he's in that aisle too! :)
DeleteA discussion (between wife and daughter) about what to buy is what prompted me to write this post. Tell me "purple" or "orange", but don't make me listen to a discussion about why or when one is better versus the other. Nonononono!!!
Lol your a good husband and dad to do this! I don't think my dad ever did that, ever Haha
ReplyDeleteReally?!?!??? Before writing this post, I had no idea how few men run this particular errand. I've been misled--I thought it was common. Maybe it's just that most women are better prepared and don't need emergency help.
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