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He tries. He really does…

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My husband is always on the road, always out and about. Since he’s newly retired and bored out of his mind? He runs errands. The other day he told me he was going to stop at the grocery store on the way home and asked if I wanted anything.

I requested one item… Panera’s Everything Bagels. Simple enough, but I made sure to describe them fully and wrote the name on a post it note because I’ve received a lot of items I didn’t want in the past by not being specific.

A few hours later, he came home with this.

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When he saw my face and realized that wasn’t what I’d asked for, he explained he ran into an old friend in the parking lot, talked for half an hour (shocking, I know) and forgot to take the post it into the store with him… but he remembered I said it has seeds on the top.

He tried.

❤️

The next day he had a dentist appointment and stopped at the grocery store afterwards.

He came home with this:

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Better – they were bagels, and the right brand but plain not everything.

He tried.

❤️

A few days after that I’d forgotten I even wanted bagels, but he came home from breakfast with this :

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Right brand, right seasoning, wrong shape.

Bless his heart… you should have seen his face when he realized that wasn’t quite right either. “I give up” he said.

0 for 3.

But he tries.

He really does.

❤️

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48 thoughts on “He tries. He really does…”

  1. I have to give him a virtual fist-bump on this one. My wife has gone so far as to show me the container, and I’ve messed it up. “It’s vegan butter, how may varieties can there be?” Yikes.

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      2. I find it a lot easier to do all the shopping because then I know what I have on hand to cook with, rather than relying on what someone else bought on a whim (since she is always hungry while shopping and most of what came home would be chips and sweets).

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      1. Yeah, I’ve had prepack sakads with a q-day expiration. I didn’t get overky upset cause I’ve done that too.

        I add a note to check each egg in a carton, as my mother taught me, because I’ve tec’d some cracked.

        I view it as the risk of online shopping, even though I do it out of necessity, not convenience.

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      4. I literally can’t stand in checkout lines (ended up crying from pain while picking up a prescription today). For now, they’ve got me over a barrel. A bunch of treatments were just approved, so I *might* be in a better state in a couple months.

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  8. My husband’s mantra was “if some is good, more is better” . If he couldn’t find the ‘some’ I asked for he would come home with the ‘more’ of all things similar. It drove me bats!

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  9. I love the dynamic of your marriage, it’s so much fun to read about, lol. That said, you are so lucky that he still run errands for you. Some men are just not up to the task and they will let their wives figure it out. Not having a husband myself, I do have three grown sons who tend to do this as well. Okay just with me, because god forbid that they mess up with their finances.

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      1. I think I would’ve been super cross the first time my husband brought home the wrong thing. But by the third try, I would just have collapsed on the floor, laughing in between roasting him relentlessly. And I would probably bring it up for the rest of his life.

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  14. 🤣 …course that happened with me buying cornbread mix, there are certain things that my wife picks out when we shop together, apparently all things aren’t the same. She ssid cornbread mix, she meant a particular brand with cornbread “muffin” mix. At least you were kind enough to be exact. 🤣

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