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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 158: Shopping with My Wife.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast number 158. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development, located in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

Today’s podcast is going to be a story about me going shopping with my wife. Let’s go!

One thing I dread more than anything else is going clothes shopping with my wife. It’s not that I don’t like helping her buy new clothes. It’s just that I have no fashion sense.

My wife always asks me, “What do you think of this one?” and I always answer with something like: “That’s nice” or “That looks good on you.” That usually satisfies her, but sometimes I get harder questions like, “Which one looks better, this one or the other one?” It’s a hard question to answer because whichever one I pick, she will follow up with the question I dread the most: “Why?”

The truth is, I don’t know why. I don’t know if it’s because of the color,