Racing down to Saks with 7 minutes to shop is totally something I would have done in my single, childfree days. Don't think I could get away with that now.
The pronounciation thing reminds me of something that happened many years ago. I was living in Myrtle Beach, SC for a short while and this girl I worked with kept talking about a place her parents lived in SC called 'Debbydo'. I kept saying that was an odd sounding town and she showed it to me on the map. The place was actually called Debordieu. It was obviously a French word that the local residents had mispronounced so badly that it became Debbydo. It still makes me laugh.