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October 17th, 2007

Have you written to your shoe store today?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough

We have this video report about the second-biggest shoe department in New York City, see, and the hot news angle is that it has its own zip code. Yeah? So? Maybe that makes it easier to send letters, but these days, I mostly just e-mail my shoe store, don’t you?

I have to say, this shoe report kind of creeps me out. The manager cheerfully talks about how women will give up their rent money for a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes. I suppose some people give up their rent money for cocaine, but you wouldn’t smile about that, would you?

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5 comments so far

I simply do not understand my own sex. I own three pairs of shoes that cost in total less than $150 Canadian.

- Posted by Charlene

Wow.. We’re obsessed with shoes? Speak for yourself, lady.. Charlene, I have you beat.. Most of my shoes were free because my former company provided me with 1 free pair of shoes a year. :)

- Posted by Lady Weasel

That’s nothing. I refuse to spend more than $20 on a single pair of shoes. Well, with the exception of the time I spent almost $200 on a pair of Doc Martin combat boots…but that was a long time ago.

Shoes are overrated. I’m barefoot 90% of the time.

- Posted by K.

Jeez… Thanks, Weasel and Charlene. This is just what I need to persuade upscale retailers to advertise on my blog: two chicks bragging about how little they spend. You watch, pretty soon we’ll hear from Kelli, and it will turn out she goes barefoot all the time.

- Posted by Robert Basler

Chicks, Bob? CHICKS?!

Surely you meant “Babes.”

- Posted by John C Abell

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