The slippery slopes of stupidity...
I bought a new pair of shoes a few nights ago. Not great shoes, but nice shoes. I didn’t actually go in that store to get shoes. I was looking for slippers…clog style slippers for the sonnies to replace the ones I got them for Christmas which ended up being the wrong size…for both of them! They liked the slippers though, so I figured I’d go back and get the next size up for each of them and life would be good again. I didn’t take the other slippers back since they ended up fitting Dear Husband and I. Okay, younger sonny’s slippers were a tad big for me, but hey…
The store didn’t have any more slippers in their sizes. In fact, they didn’t have a lot of anything else either since the holidays and the after holiday sales were over. Why am I only getting around to it now, you ask? Because we just celebrated Christmas less than a week ago, that’s why. Before that we were just truckin’ back and forth to the hospital for a couple of weeks. So anyhoo, this shopping excursion was a bust.
Except that I saw this pair of shoes… They were in my size but the box said wide. I only wear a "normal" width but they didn’t look very wide and they were nice and they were affordable. In fact, the only thing I could see wrong with these shoes was what the box said. I tried them on. Not bad. They fit, of course, since they were my numerical size. I don’t know who decided that these shoes were supposed to be wide anyway. You should’ve seen them… They just looked like normal shoes and they sure weren’t all that roomy on the tootsies either.
Well, okay, maybe they were just a little bit loose in the heel part. They slid up and down a teensy bit but with shoes that come up over the arch so snugly (you know…like Merrell’s jungle mocs), it takes a couple of wearings before they stop sliding up and down. The soles are stiff in the beginning but after the shoe takes a liking to your foot it stops slipping. I figured this was going to be one of those cases so I took a chance and bought them.
I once bought another pair of shoes which said wide on them. They were dressy pumps and those are always tight anyway since my feet swell. Therefore, I figured the wider ones would work out fine and I wouldn’t be in misery when I dressed up since that’s usually at the end of the day when my feet are already swollen. Wrong!!! Those darn shoes have never stopped sliding up and down on my heels and I can’t wear them because they cause blisters the size of Japan. I know what you’re going to say… You’re going to recommend using those things you slap inside in the heel part to keep the danged things on your feet, right? Hah! I already put them in there ages ago. If anything, they made the slipping worse because now the front part of the shoes slides around too and my feet pop out of them sometimes when I walk. Damn shoes…
Well…you know what?
I did it again..!!
The store didn’t have any more slippers in their sizes. In fact, they didn’t have a lot of anything else either since the holidays and the after holiday sales were over. Why am I only getting around to it now, you ask? Because we just celebrated Christmas less than a week ago, that’s why. Before that we were just truckin’ back and forth to the hospital for a couple of weeks. So anyhoo, this shopping excursion was a bust.
Except that I saw this pair of shoes… They were in my size but the box said wide. I only wear a "normal" width but they didn’t look very wide and they were nice and they were affordable. In fact, the only thing I could see wrong with these shoes was what the box said. I tried them on. Not bad. They fit, of course, since they were my numerical size. I don’t know who decided that these shoes were supposed to be wide anyway. You should’ve seen them… They just looked like normal shoes and they sure weren’t all that roomy on the tootsies either.
Well, okay, maybe they were just a little bit loose in the heel part. They slid up and down a teensy bit but with shoes that come up over the arch so snugly (you know…like Merrell’s jungle mocs), it takes a couple of wearings before they stop sliding up and down. The soles are stiff in the beginning but after the shoe takes a liking to your foot it stops slipping. I figured this was going to be one of those cases so I took a chance and bought them.
I once bought another pair of shoes which said wide on them. They were dressy pumps and those are always tight anyway since my feet swell. Therefore, I figured the wider ones would work out fine and I wouldn’t be in misery when I dressed up since that’s usually at the end of the day when my feet are already swollen. Wrong!!! Those darn shoes have never stopped sliding up and down on my heels and I can’t wear them because they cause blisters the size of Japan. I know what you’re going to say… You’re going to recommend using those things you slap inside in the heel part to keep the danged things on your feet, right? Hah! I already put them in there ages ago. If anything, they made the slipping worse because now the front part of the shoes slides around too and my feet pop out of them sometimes when I walk. Damn shoes…
Well…you know what?
I did it again..!!
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