Been right on the brink myself a few times with my wife and her shopping. :-)
Once I was alone with a TV and a movie called “Under the Tuscan Sun” came on, I became desperate to escape it, yet too mesmerized to get up and turn it off, I was looking for something within reach to kill myself with when a ringing phone finally broke me out of that out of body experience, and I managed to turn it off.
One of the most dreaded words that causes strong men to shudder when they see their wives coming upon it are the words ON SALE. It doesn’t matter what it is on sale, the very words send females into shopping overdrive. I’m sure every married man has heard the words “but they were on sale” from his dear wife when she comes home with a load of whatever.