h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you want to have your wicked way with a woman take her shoe shopping, assuming, that you can survive it. Shopping with women is bad enough. Shoe shopping is even worse. Shoe shopping for women is probably the female orgasm in retailing.

My wife is particularly bad as she takes size 10 (UK) shoes. What is worse is that most ranges of women's shoes only go up to size 8. So most of the time she's not overly happy due to tha lack of choice and complains she has to buy men's shoes instead.

Shopping with groups of women is just as bad or worse. The other week I was in a shoe store in New York (just across from where the World Trade Center once stood). Women making decisions concerning shoes is painful. It's worse if there's three of them. Once one has made a decision, another changes her mind and so on. Then they ask you for your opinion and go against what you say. So what's the point of wanting an opinion in the first place?

The moral of the tale is, if you are male, avoid shoe shopping with women at all cost.