Quote Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
My lady Frog ,

You're a girl. It is normal of you to go on shopping sprees. Especially for clothes.
Gah! Oh well, it's been a while since I've had occasaion to say that in some things I'm not a female, I'm a frog. Women like shopping; frogs don't.

I've never liked clothes shopping. I've never liked most shopping, and to be honest I suspect the real reason I like book shopping is because it involves books. My boyfriend likes clothes shopping more than I do, and he only likes it if he gets to play 'dress the frog'.

The origins of my hatred stretch faaar back, to the time when I was just a little frog. A tall little frog, who was always too tall for the clothes made for her age group. A tall frog who was very slender. That necessitated a lot of hunting about for something which fit on height but didn't look like a tent. Then I had the misfortune to collect a load of curves, and the situation only went downhill. 33, 25, 34 = a frog, and also a near textbook British size 10. 35, 28, 32 = the freakish figure all clothes in size 10 now seem to be made for. That is carrot shaped; big top, puny lower half. Size 8 is now all but identical to the ruined size 10. Nothing fits! Gah!

So not only do I get the outright horrors of clothes shopping, but I have to trail around a few thousand shops and it's still rare for me to find anything which fits anywhere approaching decently.

And shoe shopping? Gah! again! I've got size 5 1/2 narrow feet. You can get 5 or 6, and narrow seems to mean boat-like.

Now book shopping? Stage 1: Decide on the titles you want, walk in, check shelves, find they haven't got it. Total time = 3 minutes. Stage 2: Order it off Amazon. Total time = 2 minutes, and money saved. Alternatively, just order it off Amazon in the first place, et voila.