The truth is that Sharkey HATES shopping for anything other than books or music. I've just about managed to reconcile her to shopping for food with me, I'm a great grocery shopper. When it comes to shopping for clothes in the U.S., she simply loathes going to the malls which are full of clothes designed for somebody else. The malls are also full of women like sharkey looking at clothes designed for somebody else! All the stores sell more or less the same styles in the same colours of the season. Why wouldn't she hate that? It sucks.

I have experienced women of other kinds though. One who cannot under any circumstances pass a shoe store without going in and another who would spend at least five hours on a Saturday wandering through clothes shops and maybe buying one item in all that time.

On the other hand, there are plenty of men who are bloody hopeless at shopping because they think it's "womans work". These fools deserve to starve.

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