The fact that shopping can make or break a relationship — and that a relationship can make or break shopping expeditions — is one that retailers are paying attention to.
Glasgow's Braehead Mall recently offered women a "shopping boyfriend," a guy who "takes a girl around, helps her pick her outfits, stands outside the change rooms — does all the things men don't like about shopping," in the words of organizer Pauline Shaw.
Several dozen women checked their regular boyfriends into a "recharge zone," complete with video games, music and lad magazines, to take advantage of "the novelty that someone actually enjoyed shopping with them."
—Jessica Johnson, "Walking down the aisle: how shopping tests your relationship," The Globe and Mail, April 12, 2003
If people can't come to terms with such things like this and have to resort to a 'stand-in' then they shouldn't be together in the first fucking place, end of story. This kind of setup is just more proof that people are so fucked in the head that they don't deserve to be happy, let alone procreate! Thank you society for once again reassuring my distaste for the world and the people in it!
Labels: rant, relationships
