@Roberta,
I tried saying that in my grandmother's voice but still couldn't figure it out. (That works for many Yiddishisms -- my grandma was full of 'em but I never saw them written down.) What's it mean?
Thomas, she doesn't really shop like I do, though she's fairly cheap. She is super-efficient and only likes shopping for other people. For example, we recently went shopping for something for E.G. at a running store. Within 2 minutes she'd gone right to one thing she thought would work (useful, not too expensive). I thought it was a good choice but spent another 15-20 minutes looking around, just in case. Nope, the thing she went right to was the best thing in the store.
Minor thing that made me laugh, from the other day... we got a bunch of DVDs to watch on Thanksgiving. E.G. and I wanted to watch one (with her) that she saw was rated R. Her response: "What kind of parents
are you?" (Monty Python and such is usually rated R and that's OK, this one ["A Fish Called Wanda"] was in fact a bit much and we stopped about 1/3 of the way in, after much eye-covering and fast-forwarding.)
