Sunday, January 4, 2009

Shopping With Men

My dad recently discovered the pull-over sweater. So for Christmas Anna and I gave him lunch and a sweater. Later that week he redeemed his present with a visit to Pocatello’s best, Texas Roadhouse, for lunch. Afterwards we headed to the mall and wandered to a local department store. We quickly found the men’s section and within seconds a table with sweaters. Two minutes later he picked out the color he liked, tried it on and was ready to go.

WHAT? How could this be? Anna and I urged him to look at another table of sweaters. We wandered through them and then back to the first. We urged him to pick out a second because they were on sale. He responded, “how many sweaters do I need?”

We simultaneously responded, “Heresy! Can one have too many sweaters?” And we convinced him that he NEEDED a second (hey, the economy needed him to need a second as well).

As Anna and I continued to paw through the sweater pile (a third, Dad?), we turned around to discover him discover the cool faux bomber jackets. We all allowed that he most definitely needed it for his motorbike riding. We also all allowed that he looked mighty fine in it.

Of note, the men’s section was mostly full of women.

4 comments:

Don and Robin Cooper said...

You guys are so funny! Your dad looked great and how could he not with his private shoppers helping him along! Fun times with family are the best.

susan said...

Whoa, snappy! I'm lovin' the jacket.

Also, it was very wise of you to take Dad with you. This is years of rejected neckties speaking (that one has purple stripes; I can't wear purple stripes, I might as well wear pink!).

POOTIE POOTWELL said...

Oh Snap! That jacket looks SO good - who picked that out?!

Sarah F said...

It's sweater season! Unless you want to wear a dirty sweater one day, you'll need seven of them. I used to think more highly of your dad.