Pumpkin Shopping

As a kid, I loved picking out the perfect jack o’lantern. It had to be nice and fat, with a good surface area for carving. I wanted my pumpkin round, and without any green, spotty parts.

We usually wait until October to buy our pumpkins, and this weekend, my kids informed me that it was TIME to buy them. There is a local pumpkin patch that sells about two hundred different pumpkins of every size and shape. I took the kids there, prepared for a nice debate about which one to get. The deal was, they had to carry whichever pumpkin they selected (I figured that would keep things reasonable).

My son trotted over to the section with large pumpkins. I was prepared for a debate over which one to buy. Should we get a twisty stem pumpkin? A tall narrow one? A fat wide one?

My dear boy picked out his pumpkin in thirty seconds. The boy is clearly a male shopper. My daughter had hers in about the same timeframe.

Me: Don’t you want to look around some more, see if there’s another one you like better?
Son: No, this is fine.
Me (to daughter): What about you? Are you sure this is what you want?
Her: Yep, it’s fine.

Clearly, they did not inherit my shopping genes. :halloween: