So yesteryday Mary and I took a quick trip to Walmart. (Yes, I know I'm helping bring about world chaos, but it's affordable.) Mary really needs new school shoes. Of course she's still at the age when she wants Tinkerbell shoes or Princess shoes or something like that. Unfortunately, her feet are older than her mind so they don't tend to make those in her size anymore... We've been to Payless and Target already and can't find anything. We struck out again at Walmart.
However, Walmart had put a lot of things on clearance like snow boots and clothes and stuff. I found myself this cute little pair of capri type pants for $5. And lo and behold they actually had a pair that was the same size as the pair of pants I wore to Walmart (which are actually slightly loose). I had to get home quickly because Doug had to go to work so I just grabbed them and ran.
I brought them home and tried to try them on... I barely managed to get them pulled up, but there was NO WAY ON EARTH I was going to get them zipped and buttoned. They were at least two sizes to small.
Doug started chuckling as he watched this go on. He attempted to save himself by claiming that he was only laughing because it looked like I was trying to put on little girl pants.
So now I realize that if I actually wanted to buy a pair of those pants to wear any time soon I'd have to actually buy a pair that was labeled to be at least two sizes larger than any of my other pants. How clueless are they??? What woman in her right mind would want to buy pants that make her feel fatter than she already feels. I'm not exactly thrilled about the size I am right now. (I'm not sharing that secret, but I'm not a size 1.)
Now I know why so many pairs were on clearance at Walmart for $5. Not exactly a great way to make money unless of course they only paid 50 cents to some sweatshop worker in Bangladesh...
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