They say you should not throw away old shoes before you have new ones (Dutch expression). Well I did. If I would not do so I would still walk on my old, leaking shoes.
It is not that I am a "scrooge" but it is hard for me to find shoes I can walk on.
I decided to visit an other shop as I usually do. Why? Because I do not like to be in a shop where I can hardly walk in between all stuff they sell and feel like an elephant in a porcelain shop (Dutch expression too) .
The other shop does not have much choice if it comes to shoes or clothes, but since I was walking on my slippers I had to find something else right now.
I first tried some male shoes. I really liked them, but it was way too wide around my ankles so I had to find something else and I did.
I decided to walk around a while in the shop. I was not quite sure because some of my toes did hurt (actually they always do or I feel nothing).
I tried several other shoes as well, but this was the best I could find.
"You are not allowed to bring them back", the guy said, he even said it 3 times. It made me nervous somehow, was there something wrong with the zippers or... They were not that expensive, but still, 10 euro is money too.
Outside I dumped the shoe box into the container that collects paper and tried the zippers. They worked fine, so back into my car I did put my new shoes on.
It was a miracle I managed to do so (my car is really very small, I guess French people are as well?).
At first I had a hard time driving. I could not feel my left foot and my shoe kept stucked somewhere each time. The problem was solved after I put my seat more backwards (I grew!). I will not be able to drive a long way wearing these shoes but that doesn't matter, I drive without shoes anyway.
This is my entry at the #weekend #freewrite with the prompt: describe your shoes. See @mariannewest and @freewritehouse and join!