The Love of a Good Shoe
Apr. 24th, 2007 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI'm wearing a pair of walking shoes that feel like the loving embrace of a strong man: firm, structured, supportive, tender.
I don't like to go clothes shopping. I never have.
I especially do not like shoe shopping.
I do not particularly care about shoes one way or the other.
I just had a wonderful time buying shoes -- and I am in love with not one but two pairs of shoes.
I went to Shane's Foot Comfort Center, one of the 3-Day outfitters. Their 3-Day listing offered a 20% discount on shoes and socks for 3-Day walkers, and their own web site promised that long-time shoe professionals would ensure a great fit.
They were right.
I'd never met a shoe geek before -- but Ron was an utter shoe geek. A soft-spoken man in his sixties, he helped me find the recommended two pairs of walking shoes, then helped me try on a dozen office casual shoes. His knowledge was amazing, as was his concern for ensuring that my non-matching, wide feet were perfectly cared for.
As the opening line of this post indicates, I'm giddy about the shoes I'm wearing now -- and the other pair, still in its box, is just as wonderful.
Tonight's training walk is going to be a very different experience than all the rest.
I don't like to go clothes shopping. I never have.
I especially do not like shoe shopping.
I do not particularly care about shoes one way or the other.
I just had a wonderful time buying shoes -- and I am in love with not one but two pairs of shoes.
I went to Shane's Foot Comfort Center, one of the 3-Day outfitters. Their 3-Day listing offered a 20% discount on shoes and socks for 3-Day walkers, and their own web site promised that long-time shoe professionals would ensure a great fit.
They were right.
I'd never met a shoe geek before -- but Ron was an utter shoe geek. A soft-spoken man in his sixties, he helped me find the recommended two pairs of walking shoes, then helped me try on a dozen office casual shoes. His knowledge was amazing, as was his concern for ensuring that my non-matching, wide feet were perfectly cared for.
As the opening line of this post indicates, I'm giddy about the shoes I'm wearing now -- and the other pair, still in its box, is just as wonderful.
Tonight's training walk is going to be a very different experience than all the rest.
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Date: 2007-04-25 04:00 am (UTC)*g*
I will run a mile in tight shoes to avoid going shoe shopping. I normally have to go for either men's walking shoes or something funky to get the fit my weirdly shaped, wide, long feet require. I have no women's dress shoes, except for one pair of cleverly disguised orthopedic sandals that I've had for 17 years. (They're in Cheyne-Stokes breathing at this point so I have to go shoe shopping soon. Bleah.) They don't make women's dress shoes in whatever the women's equivalent of a men's size 9EEEE is. Probably a women's 12FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. :-p Or if they make them, they don't sell them anywhere outside of Germany. (I'd love to go shoe-shopping in Germany because I'd have no trouble finding shoes that fit, but the airfare is too steep for my budget and the jet lag would kill me. Would that my Bavarian great-great-grandmother had left a lifetime supply of shoes for me instead of just leaving me the genes for her feet.)
Anyway, that one pair of sandals came from Shane's. They're wonderful people. Treat them like pure gold, than which they are more rare!
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Date: 2007-04-26 01:40 am (UTC)And the next time I see them, I'll tell them I have a friend who's remembered them for 14 years.
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Date: 2007-04-26 02:00 am (UTC)