Gifts for.her.
Dec 5th, 2006 by Peter
Our 1 year anniversary for my wedding is coming up on the 16th of December. This means I have to consider an appropriate way to make sure to show C that I remembered (thank you SE750i with built-in calendar function).
Only a fool will venture out on something special like a love letter or renewing our wows, and I – not being a fool – used my mans brain an decided to buy my way out of this one (All right, brain, you don’t like me, and I don’t like you, but let’s just get me through this, and I can get back to slowly killing you with beer).
I was thinking about purchasing some jewellery of a kind, which will be hell to buy without C knowing about it. I guess I’ll manage though. Now that I was set on buying something at last, I decided to take the deep plunge and go looking for some “laced” stuff too. My – yes – of course I would be buying it for her pleasure and not mine. Why do you ask?
I can’t say that I am an experienced buyer of the “silky” goods, but I figured: “Hey – how hard could it be? If I liked it, then I only needed to make out the size. I just forgot rule nr. 1:
No matter how much you like smooth women’s underwear and no matter how comfortable you feel when your better part wears it at home, this will change to the complete opposite as you stand in the middle of the lingerie department.
And it did. Not only was I the only man there, but I am sure I also was the only one who looked lost (those 2 go hand-in-hand, eh?).
I like bras like the next guy, but somehow it just looks bizarre when a dude takes one of the racks and holds it up to see the design more clearly. I’m pretty sure most women there instantly categorized me as a freak. A few may even have thought: “That’s an optimist if I ever saw one. He’ll never get his big boobs into that one”.
It takes exactly 1 sec to go from secure manly browser to an insecure boyish geek. 1 sec is also the time it takes for me to step into the lingerie department.
I really tried to project being the first man who is okay with eying the goods, but I must have failed. 2 female oldies (whatever they did in the fashionable underwear section, I don’t really want to know) were staring at me as if I just waded unknowingly into their secret crypt. I decided to ignore them, and got some help from a friendly younger expedient which apparently had males there before. At least I figured, as she managed to politely correct me without laughing in my attempt to pronounce ‘chemise’ (hoover over the picture to the right, to see what I learned about that part).
As if scrambling through the maze of clothing racks with lacy garments weren’t difficult enough to handle, a few women started laughing loudly. I bet they were laughing at me. Bats!
I had to stop and give way to a lady going the opposite direction (it’s not China, and it is normal to be polite here). Somehow this made her half smile and laugh at the same time and she giggled past me. Since I WAS a man and I WAS inside a lingerie shop, this would automatically be funny, right?
I finally found the needed goods, and made my way to the counter. There I waited as the friendly expedient packed up my purchases and added: “I think you made the right decision changing to this chemise. It’ much more romantic”. Romantic? yeah, that’s the word I was looking for in lack of a more fitting yet more unfitting word.
I guess there are 2 types of men that go lingerie shopping. The loud jokers and the silent blushers (I’m nr. 1). I bet that finding one who is both comfortable, and relaxed with a normal pitch voice is more difficult than capturing a live Yeti.
Somehow I think our friend Gregers might be the comfortable and relaxed ONE you seek, my young Padowan learner…
And may I suggest you put my birthday in your “SE750i with built-in calendar function”….thanx! :)
Gregers is – as usual – my north star. You may be right. I will turn to him for guidance.
Your birthday is just as important to me as our mutual acquaintance W. Schellenberg. You’ll both get your bytes worth in the memory stick, when I find something replaceable also about 2Kb sized. 512Mb is easily used for more important things like Mp3s and java games.
I will be there for you – just call and we will figure it out :-)