Wondering about wild grapes

Monday, July 9, 2012

Wondering about my wife’s shoes.

What is it about some women and their love for shoes and shopping for shoes?  One of the things my wife loves doing is shopping and especially shopping for shoes.  Why she can spend hours and hours trying on shoes and what for?  She already has more shoes than she needs.  I am trying to remember when I bought the pair of cowboy boots that I wear every day.  Let’s see, I got them resoled a year or so ago.  I wore them to my class reunion back in 2008, but I don’t remember when I bought them.  I am thinking that maybe later this year or next I may buy another pair.  That should last me the rest of my life, right?  OK, back to the wife and her shoes.  The first stop was the outlet mall and she spent some time in a shoe store there while I sat in the car working Sudoku puzzles.  She didn’t buy anything, isn’t it wonderful that she enjoys shopping more than buying?  She said that we should go to the Academy  sporting goods store so that I could look at guns, fishing stuff, kayaks, clothes, tents, and other outdoors or sporting goods stuff while she looked for some shoes.  Academy is a huge store and believe me when I say I looked at everything they had in the store and finally went back to the women’s shoe section to see if my wife found what she wanted.  Well I was pleasantly surprised that she had narrowed here search down to two pairs of shoes and she asked my opinion.  To expedite matters I told her I liked them both and to go ahead and get them both, which she did.  She said that the loud colored pair felt so good on her feet and that she never had a pair that felt that good.  The other pair wasn’t so fancy but felt pretty good, too.  So, she was happy and I was happy and we headed for home.  Oh yes, I suppose I should show you pictures:

Check out the soles on the fancy one:

And here two pictures showing side views of both pairs:


Of course we also went to the flea market and I didn’t see anything I couldn’t live without, but my wife brought home this reproduction sign that she liked:

Did you notice the seams in the back of the stockings?  Oh for the good old days, or maybe not.  Now you all have a good start to this week, you hear?



11 comments:

  1. I remember my uncles talking about what a pair of "nylons" could get you back during WWII when he was in France, ah the good ol days.

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  2. TG your spacing is fixed,,
    Now, me,,i love the loud shoes...lol. Hate to shop,,,for anything tho.

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  3. Bob, yep, I have heard those stories also, and I bet they got a lot more than they wanted, what do you think?

    Trouble, I fixed it just for you. I don't care to shop that much unless it is for food and man stuff (grin).

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  4. Now food shopping is something I could get into! Now days, I do nearly all my shopping online though.

    I like both pairs of those shoes myself!

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  5. My wife doesn't have the shoe bug, thank god. In fact, she never was much of a recreactional shopper.

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  6. When my wife goes shopping I stay home. It's an all day deal with her.

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  7. HJ, on line shopping is fun and my wife orders stuff from QVC and others. I have bought a few things on line, too.

    Sixbears, my wife doesn't like to spend money, since she was having a hard time deciding which pair she wanted, it was me who insisted she take them both.

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  8. I've got to where I take a magic marker and write the date on stuff I've bought-on boots for instance I put it high on the inside of the upper. Don't do it on everything you understand, just the expensive stuff (over about fifty dollars). Interesting how long stuff lasts, or how quick something else wears out.

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  9. John, Sometimes you do get what you pay for and sometimes you don't. Which lasted longer, the expensive ones or the cheaper ones?

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  10. I like both pair also,and, since I absolutely HATE any kind of shopping (my dear, late, sister got the shopping gene for both of us, boy, could that girl shop! And, she passed it on to her two granddaughters). Glad your wife is feeling better.

    My mom told me of girls she worked with in Charleston, WV, where she was a waitress, who would draw a line down the back of their legs so it looked like they had stockings on. Had to have a steady hand for that!

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  11. Sharon, I have heard of them drawing lines down the back of their legs, especially during WW2 and the depression when nylons were scarce.

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