The generic DH

Anya, Wish mine would melt into the crowd like that.

Gosh do you think that we're maybe generic DWs?

We have this problem all the time. He will say 'I'll just go over there and get whatever'. I say 'OK I'll meet you in the bread aisle'. After 10 minutes of waiting in the bread aisle, I go in search of him and he is nowhere to be seen. Eventually I find him and he will say 'you said meet you by the tinned fish' or something ridiculous. He too announces that he's been searching the shop for me. I sometimes have to stifle a giggle at the amount of middle aged/elderly couples bickering in supermarkets

There's not much chance of me blending into the background, 99.937% of men are shorter than me.

Agoraphobia benefit at last! DH never leaves my side in a supermarket

We have a golden rule, if seperated we meet at the checkout.
If DH goes off to find something he usually ends up chatting to some ex colleague. I've been known to finish the entire shop whilst he's chatting. And they moan about us !
Anya that could be DH minus the beard.

That's the point Nina they all look the same!

I hate shopping with either of my DSs as they meander off to investigate something - espcially DS2. I usually have to phone them to tell them where to find me.

Anya
Could it be the beard? We have three neighbours with neatly trimmed grey beards, and I often can't tell them apart.My DH is very tall so I can usually find him, and he rarely wears a blue shirt, but I have noticed that a lot of men do.It seems to be the colour of choice.

Golly, my DH has got grey hair, not so neatly trimmed grey beard, shorts and a very ancient t-shirt. Was he there?
He will have been the one doing the shopping, with me trailing behind.

Texting to the mobile helps!

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Was he also wearing white socks with sandals Mamie ?

Not the dreaded socks and sandals?

Texting to the mobile only helps if he's got his switched on, J52!

Wash your mouth out Anya.
Birkies, crocs or boots. No socks apart from the last.
Actually he would be quite a good swap because he is ace at cooking, cleaning and gardening and understands the low-carb diet.

I confess to a trimmed grey beard, but do not wear shorts or sandals (except at the seaside). I have had a beard since 1963, with short breaks for Thespian purposes in 1965 and 1967, and am not over the moon that they have recently become fashionable.

And I am not normally to be found in Tesco.

More of a Watrose man perhaps?

Ah, A Sainsbury man!

Lidl or Aldi, perhaps? Very trendy these days, apparently...

M&S Food?

Texting to the mobile also requires the mobile to be mobile, J52, not sitting still as a statue on an allotment bench.

I watched my DH the other day in our local supermarket. I'd gone through checkout and his way of looking for me was to march purposefully past all tills, looking straight ahead, ignoring my frantic waving. Then he disappeared, to reappear in the distance, marching purposefully past all aisles, looking straight ahead. This is what I call his Cap'n Mainwaring mode.

I was ringing his mobile. I knew it was fruitless.

I have never seen my DH's chin and we have been together 47 years.
Tesco's only for wine. Sainsbury's for t-shirts (but not often). Waitrose for everything else.
In France, Lidl from choice; Carrefour, Cora and Leclerc reluctantly.

Find my iphone works but only if it is switched on.