When I go shopping for a specific item it is always a process. Take for example recently I needed a cat carrier for my new kitten. It did not matter that I already had two cat carriers. I needed a special cat carrier because she is going to be my therapy cat and she cannot be seen hanging out in one of those boring old tan, hard sided cat carriers. I wanted my kitten to be hanging out in style. She needed a pink cat carrier.
Of course I decided this one evening about 7:00 at night and had to have it that night. My husband indulged me and took me to the pet store. I found lots of cat carriers that were less than perfect. My husband found one that wasn't pink, but it was the right size and a really good price......but it wasn't pink.
**For some reason this in this picture I would fill in my red shirt and when I saved it parts of the shirt did not save. So I'm not trying to look inappropriate...my computer is out to embarrass me.**
We kept looking and I could not find the perfect one, so I started settling for the blue one my husband had picked out. But he could tell I was not happy with it. I was thinking...how could I settle when we had only been to one store so far this evening?
So my husband agreed to take me to another pet store. That is a trend with me. I can find the absolutely perfect item that I am looking for, but if it is at the first store I looked, I can't help myself, I must keep looking. The perfect item might be out there and if I stop looking I won't find it. Never mind that this rarely happens.
So we go to the next pet store. And I was right!!! They have the perfect pink cat carrier. But it is too expensive. Hmmm....I keep looking...time is running out, I must find the perfect cat carrier tonight. It's not like I have a need for it tonight or tomorrow, I just want it tonight.
I keep looking through the store, the perfect one was actually a dog carrier, I figure I will go check out the cat area. And there it is. The perfect carrier for the perfect price. And I can purchase it, because before I ever got to this store I had checked at the big box stores while grocery shopping, I had checked online earlier that day and I had been to the other pet store already this evening. If this had been the first place I had looked I would not have been able to bring myself to actually buy it.
So I thought I had been entirely reasonable that night only going to two stores. I can't imagine why my kids refuse to shop with me.
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