Sensible Shoes

What do you do when the weather is 10 degrees and most of your shoes look like this? First you dig for that coupon you know you had somewhere for $10 off any pair of shoes, and head for the mall. When you arrive, you find that the store you have the coupon for is nowhere to be found. Disappointed that you can't use your very valuable coupon, but also desperate for some shoes to wear to church, you decide you are desperate enough that you will actually pay the department store price. Much to your delight, upon entering the shoe department, you see they are having a sale on shoes! After admiring all the new fashions and picturing yourself in those sexy Stilettos that will make you at least 5 inches taller, and reasoning that the extra money you spend will save you the cost of altering the pants that are too long for you....you come back to reality. The only problem now is to find something in your size. There are plenty of shoes, but each time you request to try a pair on, you are told they don't have it in your size. You get the impression that the shoe salesman thinks you should settle for one size bigger where you will have a lot more to choose from. You compromise on one pair and get it in a size 61/2 instead of a 6, and tell yourself that when you're not cold, your feet will swell and they will fit just fine.

You head home with your sensible shoes in the bag, and are happy to have found at least one pair of something other than black. Navy blue dress shoes will give you a little variety right? Sunday morning comes and you decide on the blue skirt. You wait until the last minute to put the shoes on. When you do, you notice they don't feel quite right. You wonder if your right foot is really that much bigger than your left. You look inside the right and left shoe and discover they have given you a different size for each foot. You change clothes and put on the other pair that could pass as dress shoes, only to realize that the 6 1/2 are too big and would require thick socks to make them not slip up and down like flip-flops. Finally, because you are now going to be late if you don't hurry, you slip on the flats and call it good. You head off to church in your sensible shoes. You have saved the coupon.....maybe those sexy Stilettos are still a possibility.