Sunday, May 24, 2015

Sensible shoes

Every time I hear any public service announcement my single prevailing thought is, "Oh, shut up."

Because I'm paying for something and getting something else.

So to retaliate after refusing yours I'll deliver my own: always wear sensible shoes and especially for anything public, doubly especially on any uncertain surface. Women, do not wear anything high. Men, don't ever wear flip-flops unless you actually are at a bathhouse.



9 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

Nobody can come to her aid because they cannot believe what they're seeing, they think it will end, and they're all wearing insensible shoes.

Chip Ahoy said...

I clicked on some teaser 21 things people did when they saw a statue and nailed it.

They really are funny. It's a click-through

And I was thinking, ugh, flip-flops out in public while exploring. It must be really hot. And aren't they afraid of breaking the statue? I could happen. I've broken bronze things before. But then looking back through there are only three of them and three out twenty-one isn't so bad.

I didn't realize the Sergio Bustamonte is that small. That's the one where the guy is pouring a drink into the statue's mouth while also holding his own drink. Sharing. The sun-face or flower-face statue is looking skyward as if in reverence to the sky. And it's a lot shorter than I thought. That happens. With Egyptian things. I'd see pictures in books over and over and over then in real life they're either way bigger or way smaller than I imagined.

ampersand said...

They should call those Suicide shoes.
There's an hilarious compilation of runway models weeble wobbling in those clodhoppers.

Chip Ahoy said...

Probably her best shoes.

I was looking at photos of the mattress Columbia rape fraud person and instead of thinking about her mattress and how gross that must be, and not thinking about her favored cut-off short that leave the pockets hanging out, all I really thought was, now those are sensible shoes for mattress dragging, she put thought into it.

john said...

Ever watch someone tap dance in high heels?

Watch Sutton Foster.

Chip Ahoy said...

That's ace.

Although the singing blew out my eardrums, my fault, audio on max.

I don't know how they do it.

My favorite parts are when the ladies sway like they're signing wavy water 5:13 and their body weight shifting back and forth make their hips appear to become liquid but they don't do it long enough so you search for the ones who did that and you lose them in the crowd and you get only glimpses of that glorious feminine liquidity and by 'you' I probably mean 'me.'

virgil xenophon said...

Such falls seem to me the result of our casual times when few HS/college age women ever "dress up" except for the rare occasion. I saw a bunch of female Tulane grads the other day in their "graduation-day" dresses and high heels and they seemed like stumbling new-born foals. In my ancient days of the early sixties most girls/women wore heels quite frequently. Such stumbling and falls were not just "almost" but NEVER seen.

Dad Bones said...

It was like she was carrying a football. She managed to gain some yardage before she finally went down.

Anonymous said...

Lowly ankles, long oppressed, lunge at the chance to bring about their tyrant's downfall