Shoes, Tape and Public Humiliation
When walking into a store one night my sandals fell apart in the parking lot. I shuffled into the door and stood there as the greeter (who was someone I knew so it wasn't so bad) laughed and laughed. I sat on a bench and tried in vain to fix the shoe but eventually I had to give up and concede that it was a lost cause. Luckily the store had a shoe department...I just needed to make it to the back of the store. Shuffling and hopping wasn't going to work so the greeter grabbed one of those huge tape guns and watched (and laughed) as I wrapped tape around my shoe several times.
There is a reason that tape is not used as a normal shoe repair tool. I was more focused on getting things done quickly than making it pretty so it looked horrible and it made a lovely 'shuck-shick' sound every time I stepped. I tried it out for a couple of steps up front to make sure it was going to hold and then I made my way as quickly as I could to the shoe department. Of course, the faster I walked, the more pronouced my 'shuck-shick' noise became. I tried to shuffle my foot along the floor to deaden the noise but all that did was make the 'shick' into more of a 'sssssssshick'. I think I heard the greeter (and the people at the service desk where she got the tape) laughing all the way to the back of the store.
But I made it, got new shoes and laughed a lot. Although it was much funnier after I had new shoes on and I was waving my taped sandal in the air.
There is a reason that tape is not used as a normal shoe repair tool. I was more focused on getting things done quickly than making it pretty so it looked horrible and it made a lovely 'shuck-shick' sound every time I stepped. I tried it out for a couple of steps up front to make sure it was going to hold and then I made my way as quickly as I could to the shoe department. Of course, the faster I walked, the more pronouced my 'shuck-shick' noise became. I tried to shuffle my foot along the floor to deaden the noise but all that did was make the 'shick' into more of a 'sssssssshick'. I think I heard the greeter (and the people at the service desk where she got the tape) laughing all the way to the back of the store.
But I made it, got new shoes and laughed a lot. Although it was much funnier after I had new shoes on and I was waving my taped sandal in the air.