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To: Barney who wrote (21188)	11/9/2001 11:18:11 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62592

Surrogate Boyfriends Rescue Men From Shopping Friday November 9 8:15 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) - Shopping-phobic men have been given an early Christmas present by a Scottish retail center which is providing surrogate boyfriends to accompany female customers around the shops. The Braehead Shopping Centre in Glasgow is testing a scheme which lets women drop off their recalcitrant partners at a kind of boyfriend creche and borrow a fresh new shopping-friendly specimen for a few hours. ``The Shopping Boyfriend is the ultimate retail therapist: enthusiastic, attentive, admiring and complimentary,'' said Carol-Ann Stewart from drinks company Lucozade Energy, which behind the pilot scheme. ``He will browse with the girlfriend for hours on end. He'll even say her bum looks small.'' Stewart said an NOP poll showed ``shopping'' was one of the most dreaded words for young British men -- coming just behind ''babies.'' Freed from the rigors of shopping with their loved ones, the men can relax with video games and a selection of men's magazines until they get picked up and taken home again.