The bottom skillet in the photo is the one we use in Sophie, our travel RV. With space at a premium we only use one skillet and it has two short handles rather than one long one. It was used everyday over the 9 1/2 month trip we recently took and my wife worried that if something happened to it, a handle broke or the nonstick coating was scratched, we wouldn’t be able to find a replacement. She has repeatedly searched the internet in vain to find the same or a similar skillet.

Whenever we shop in the same store where we bought the original, I always make sure to check if see if they had any in stock. This time they did. I brought one over to where she was getting some deli cheese and showed her what I had found. She wanted to know where I found it, and then proceeded to the display and put two more in our grocery cart.

I questioned this and was told we needed them “just in case”. I knew from experience not to pursue that point any further. In the back of my mind I was wondering if just having one long handled skillet that would be easy to replace wouldn’t take up less space than taking three extra skillets along. Then I remembered the adage: Man will never understand the mind of a woman. With my luck she will decide that I take to many clothes along and use part of my clothes drawer to store them.