It's just too doggone confusing!
I like to buy pants and shirts from L.L. Beano or Ed E. Bauer. My sox, I can find most anywhere where red sox are available, and boxer shorts are not too tough to find. But I like cotton shirts and pants - no polyester, wool, nylon or naugahyde needs to adorn me.
But even when I go online to try to order, everything gets all balled up. Just the other day, I selected a pair of pants (casual, men's big 'n' tall, in the fashionable "sand" color) and clicked on them to add them to my "shopping cart." Perhaps the fact that the shopping cart is only a figment of the imagination added to the mix.
The website gave me this cryptic instruction in red: PLEASE MAKE ALL SELECTIONS BEFORE ADDING TO SHOPPING CART.
As Principal Skinner would say, "What th' ?"
How does one make all the selections without adding all the selections to the shopping cart? That would be like going around the Groceries 'R' Us store and making mental notes of everything you want, and then going to the register with an empty cart and telling the cashier, "I need a can of Manning's hominy, grated cheese, diced tomatoes, and a large bag of kibble."

So I give up and call the 800 number, which gives me the chance to talk to a real live human, usually with a southern accent, which allows me to talk about how I love it down there where the magnolias blossom and the pecans grow in the loamy soil. From there on, we swap pecan pie recipes, I order pants, and everyone is happy.
Show me a website that makes everyone happy! Can't be done.
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