McHenry County Blog

Rarely do I poke fun at women.

We men are so vulnerable to payback.

So, I’m ready for criticism in the comment section.

But it’s not just this map of the mall, which purports to show what happens when a man and a woman go to a shopping center to buy a pair of pants:

· a woman taking 3 hours and 26 minutes on a shopping trip spending $876 and

· a man taking 6 minutes to spent $33

It’s the small headline I found on page three of the Chicago Tribune in mid-October:

Obsessive shopping may be disorder

But not everyone is buying into diagnosis

My theory is that women hunted for roots and berries in prehistoric times, while man went for the kill. It takes a lot more time to fill a container with small edibles than big ones.