Shopping with Your Wife Kills You More than Workouts Can

I regularly workout to keep healthy and fit and sometimes working out can kill you. When I get too excited about it I tend to overdo my workouts and later suffer the consequences--muscle aches allover. So you got one lesson there--don't overdo your workouts no matter how exciting.

But shopping with your wife is something else--especially if your wife is like my wife. She likes thoroughly searching the whole area, like a military mopping-up operation, leaving no stone unturned. We literally search every nook and cranny, going from stall to stall, floor to floor, building to building, and then ending up buying the item from the first store we inquired from.



Definitely worse than a rigid workout.

Walking in and out of malls is easy, but not if you are shopping with your wife. There's something about shopping that stresses you even if you determine to relax. It's probably my wife's shopping style, because when I shop alone I never get stressed out. I just choose from a few items, close my eyes and buy whatever my hand grabs. That's it. I often do all my shopping in a few minutes.

With my wife, it takes about half a day to buy 3 items--3 items!

Like this afternoon. We met at SM North to buy 3 items--a shirt and shorts for our youngest son plus my wife's sandals. We started at 4 pm and ended at about 9 pm. She asked me to choose some of the shirts so I did some careful search, knowing how meticulous my wife was. And after taking some time deciding what color combinations fit our son, I showed her my choice. She took one look and announced, "Umm, well, shirts are not my priority, really. I think I'd like to buy our son some other thing."

After that, we went back and forth SM North and Trinoma. I thank God we later had dinner at the food court of Trinoma where I had my favorite Sinigang na Ulo ng Maya-Maya I bought from Baliwag. It was a real break!

Wait till I tell you how long and hard it took my wife to finally choose the right sandals that fit her feet. But I'd rather not because the reason I created MManila Boy is to have some relaxing time at the end of the day before I go to bed after a hectic day. I think you get a good idea what happened and how walking round and round and round almost killed me more than workouts could--I mean, killed my feet. When we got home, I immediately took off my shoes and the relief I had was joy unspeakable.

That's life in Manila.