At the start of the holiday season there was a bizarre news of a Chinese man who jumped to his death when his girlfriend refused to stop shopping. It sounds rather ridiculous, but the truth is many men get so bored on shopping trips with their female partners (although suicide is indeed extreme).

Instagrammer miserable_men documents exactly that. The account is filled with photos of anguished, neglected dudes who are shopping - not for themselves, or even at all. They're falling asleep in the mall, or waiting outside with the kids, or bored out of their skulls, while waiting for their wives or girlfriends to be done with shopping.

They look incredibly miserable. Take a look below: