You've tried on a pair of jeans, quite liked them, but won't commit until you've visited three or four other shops. You then return to the first place and buy those jeans, having wasted the best part of an hour.
Palermo owner Maurizio Zamparini is that shopper and Beppe Iachini is that pair of jeans, having been re-hired on Monday, just three months after getting the boot.
Between 10 November and 15 February, the struggling Sicilian Serie A side brought in four other bosses before realising Iachini was their man all along.
"I return to Palermo with great enthusiasm for the good of the club, the team and the fans," said the returning coach.
Zamparini asked Palermo fans for forgiveness for "this month of chaos", adding that this had been because of his "wrong evaluation and misunderstanding" of Iachini.
Nowhere did the owner promise to give that trigger finger a rest though.
Palermo have failed to win any of their last four league matches and are 15th in Serie A, with 26 points from 25 games, four points clear of the drop zone.
Sacking and re-hiring managers in a single season is not unusual in Italy.
During the 2013-14 Serie A campaign, Catania ditched Rolando Maran who then returned, only to be sacked again.
Meanwhile, in the same season, Livorno dismissed Davide Nicola - the coach who led them to promotion the previous season.
Replacements Domenico Di Carlo and Attilio Perotti failed to make an impression, so Nicola was asked back again.

Police called to the collision on Long Street in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, found the white BMW 1 Series on top of a red Toyota Yaris.
A blue Vauxhall Corsa was also involved in the collision, which happened outside a terraced house near the Horseshoe pub at about 21:30 GMT on Tuesday.
The road was closed while the vehicle was recovered.
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Jade Barnes, who lives a few doors from the scene, said: "The house the car crashed into is the house of a heavily pregnant lady, so I went to check she was ok.
"We heard a crash but presumed it was people putting the bins out.
"It was only when I saw the emergency services that I knew something awful had happened."
Police said no one was injured and there were no arrests.

Yahye Omar Mohamed, 14, and Waseem Muflahi, 15, both from Birmingham, were on a trip to Barmouth, Gwynedd, on 7 August when they died.
A friend said they had been warned before they ventured into deeper water.
A conclusion of accidental death was recorded at Wednesday's inquest in Caernarfon.
Coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones said: "This is a classic situation of healthy active boys swimming in the sea, but not realising the dangers if they get caught in surf with strong undertow.
"I don't believe I can do anything to prevent further fatalities other than to warn people that there is no such thing as a safe beach, though the risks in Barmouth are no greater than anywhere else."
Mahdi Farah, a friend of the two boys who was rescued from the water, said the boys had been enjoying the water at a safe depth, but went out further than they should have.
"I went to give them a stern telling off," he said.
"But the strong waves were crashing down and they dragged us out. I was telling the boys to stay calm and battling to keep them upright.
"But every time I tried to swim to shore with them, the current kept dragging us back."
Harbourmaster Anthony Glyn told the hearing: "I saw three people in the water, scattered 50-100 metres apart, so I told two of my colleagues, beach wardens, to take a throw line and go into the water a small way to try and rescue the closest of the three.
"As soon as they did, another wave came and took my colleagues out too.
"They managed to get the throw line to Mahdi Farah and I called for urgent help from the coastguard and lifeboat.
"Then I saw one of the boys go under the water. As the lifeboat reached the line of the surf, the second boy disappeared."
The bodies of the boys were recovered on beaches north of Barmouth a few days later.
We've all been there.
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Two teenage boys who drowned while swimming in the sea disappeared beneath the waves minutes before a lifeboat could reach them, an inquest has heard.