Working downtown also has its disadvantages. I have to sit in traffic every afternoon. I get to listen to the loud street construction. But the worse part of working downtown is that the city streets are destroying my shoes.
All girls can relate to how annoying it is to get your shoe heel stuck in a crack or crevice of a sidewalk. I swear this happens once a day when walking the streets of downtown. All my pumps are scratched. The fronts of all my shoes are scuffed up. My patent shoes are ruined with the leather all bunched up from scratches.
Last Friday, I was out to lunch with a co-worker. We were walking Austin’s famous 6th street. Sure enough, my sandal gets caught in a sidewalk gap and I broke my flip flop. I was not about to walk around barefoot because 6th street is filthy. I developed a system to help get me from point A to point B. I put all my weight on my foot with the broken sandal and scooted along street without having to lift my foot. Imagine like an ice skating motion. My co-worker was dying of laughter. I got lots of weird looks, but it worked.
After coming back to the office from lunch today, I leaned down to turn on my heater. Low and behold, there was huge gash missing from my wooden sole. Another pair of shoes bites the dust. L
At the rate I’m going through shoes, I’ll be barefoot by the end of the year. I know one person who is probably happy about my dwindling shoe collection….Ryan. We fight for closet space. haha
2 comments:
Noooo! I hate to see a good shoe's life over.
I did wonder how Ryan liked that monstrosity hanging on the closet door... :) He must be a pretty good sport. I was totally impressed with your shoe collection! Sorry you have had a few casualties as of late.
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