Shopping

As any of my family could tell you, at the best of times it's hard enough to get me to go shopping, but on those rare occasions when I do go, this is what it's like..

1. Arrive at the shops - 'What shop are we going to again?'
2. Walk into the shopping center 'yawn... this is why I don't like shopping, why are we here anyway?'.
3. On our way to the shop we want to visit, we walk past a jewelry store 'Hang on a minute, I just need to have a look' proceed to look in the window at earrings for 2 minutes.
4. Now we are at the shop we wanted to go to, I spot the book section 'I'm just looking to see if there are any cricket books'.
5. I'm sick of looking at the covers of books, I look for whoever I came shopping with.
6. Wander through the shop looking for them, constantly thinking 'this is so boring, why did I come?'.
7. Find them, stare into space at nothing, yawn again, they say 'Mary, don't look like that, it's not that bad, why are you yawning?'.
8. Me - 'Because it's SO boring, I hate shopping'.
9. They convince me to look at clothes/whatever with them, I'm not too helpful, all I can say is 'I've seen some prettier clothes/jewelry at __ (insert online shop name here)'.
10. I silently think 'why isn't all shopping online' (If I had my way EVERYTHING could be purchased over the net).
11. They decide what to buy, I am once again staring into space, thinking about what I could be doing elsewhere.
12. Finally, the decide to leave.
13. On the drive home, I wonder why on earth I went shopping.
14. And the worst part, the next week, I go shopping with them again!

NOTE: the above thoughts about shopping do not apply to jewelry, sports or book shops (and I don't really know why!).