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Shoe Shopping and a Run In With the Law
Alright al you perfect mothers, I'm prepared to be lectured. I buy used shoes. There. I said it. I know that Parenting magazine did a scathing artilcle warning of the dangers of foot deformities and crazy bacterial infections lurking in used shoes. I refuse to live a life of fear and prefer to live a life of tightwadedness though, so I had planned to do our shoe shopping at the local kids resale store. I had to run by my place of employment first though, for some boring and unblogworthy business. My boss Janie remarked on the kids bare feet and smiled in that sweet and sympathetic way. She suggested I walk 30 feet to Payless since they were having their buy one get one half off sale (free plug for Payless there). I protested and announced my resale shop plans. She reminded me that it never hurt to look, and I conceded.
She looked at my kids' dirty, Huck Finn like feet. "You should go in there and tell them you found two barefooted kids on the street so they don't judge you."
We headed out the door and made it half way to Payless before being stopped by mall security. "Ma'am, I'm going to have to ask you to leave the mall." Will looked up at me with an "I swear I didn't do anything" expression. "You are in violation of the shoe wearing policy clearly printed on all doors."
Seriously...shoe wearing policy? I pointed at Payless. "We're on our way to buy some now."
She nodded, eyes narrowed, considering our release. Luckily she doesn't know what Will is capable of and let us go with a stern "you better buy shoes" warning. I glanced over my shoulder to see Janie doubled over in hysterical laughter.
The man in Payless greeted us warmly. He measured Kate and Will's feet (sizes 8 and 13.5 respectively). We came, we saw, we conquered and left the store in triumph with two pairs of shoes and without $24.97.
"Let's show Janie my new shoes!" Will squawked as he took off running back to my store. He spun around proudly and demonstrated how he could run faster in his new shoes. Kate twirled around in ballerina-ish pride and smiled sweetly. I complained about spending $24.97 on two pairs of shoes.
"Well, Jen...you didn't really have a choice. After all, you were stopped by the police!"
10:12 PM - Oct. 9, 2007 - post comment
         
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Confession: Will has no shoes. I have no idea what has become of them, but they have all vanished from the earth. I keep meaning to buy him new ones, but as little boys feet sometimes grow faster than money comes in, he has been wearing Connor's shoes for longer than I will admit. Today however, Connor's shoes were all missing too, save the pair he wore to school. And so, I resigned myself to the fact that today was the day that Will was getting shoes. Lucky Kate got to share in the spoils as well, since she only owns sandals and needed some cold weather shoes. (This is going on the assumption that eventually cold weather will actually be coming to Texas - it's still up in the air at this point.) 
