Saturday JC Penny had a big sale doing, and my wife wanted to get there early and asked me along. I figured it was too cold that morning to work on the shed, so agreed to go.
After arriving, the first place my wife led me to was where they had a lot of purses on sale. My wife asked me to find one to go with my dress for the TGEA formal. There were several nice ones at 60% off, and I eventually picked out a little black beaded clutch purse with a small chain for a handle.
We then went to see what else we could find, and came across the costume jewelry section. So I began looking through the earrings, rings, etc. and found a few size 9 rings that I liked. These were the largest rings they carried, apparently, but just fit my pinkie finger. So I tried them on one over and over trying to decide which I liked best. Mind you, my wife is off at the display cases looking at earrings for herself, so I'm standing there by myself, with the purse, trying on rings.

I held on to a CZ one and a pearl one.
I then looked for a pair of clip-ons, but all they had was pierced. I did find a nice set of pearl drop dangling earrings I figured we could convert to clip-ons.
I carried these items over to where my wife was, and discussed them. We decided on the pearl ring since I'll mostly be wearing pearls to the gala. We walked back over to where I found the rings, and my wife found a pair of earrings she wanted as I put the CZ ring back. She then found another pair of pearl drop earrings better than the set I had picked, so I got them instead.
Next we walked around to women's wear, then upstairs to the lingerie, kitchen items and Xmas decorations, back down to the hosiery/socks section, and then over to men's wear where we found a sports jacket for our son for Xmas.
So we spent a few hours walking around the store, with me carrying this little purse, and no one stared, whispered or laughed. Cool.
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- SL