I never thought this would be possible

[wiseheart]

No, seriously. It's the weirdest thing that has happened to me in a very long time.

Today, I finally went to choir practice - mostly because I wanted to visit the Chinese store near to school, where I always buy washing powder, cosmetics and the likes. They also sell ground coffee, considerably cheaper than grocery stores (have you also noticed how the price of coffee has skyrocketed lately?). In any case, I bought all the stuff I needed, then I visited the sewing supplies shop nearby, and finally another shop for household and kitchen utensils, where I found - after literal years of looking - a 20cm by 20cm square cake tin. It wasn't exactly cheap, but I bought it nonetheless. It was one of those must-have things.

Then I went over to school for choir practice and noticed that my always so comfortable shoes felt weird; as if I'd been walking on uneven stones. You'd never guess what was happening: the stupid plastic foam soles of my shoes were crumbling off. I kid you not! By the time I reached school (which was a really short walk) big parts of it were breaking away, and I was practically walking on the inner soles! I was lucky that my friend Eenie gave me a lift home, otherwise it would have been a really uncomfortable trip.

My choir mates pointed out a shoemaker's near school. I'll try to go and get a new sole for my shoes. This is very annoying. It's so bloody hard to find shoes for my puffy feet, they are supposed to last a bit longer, dammit!

Other than that, Mum had a visit from her physiotherapist who's still recovering from knee surgery but can do such short private sessions already, and my friend Elise came over to deliver the ingredients for the baking commission.

Comments

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

OMG, so weird about the shoes.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It really is. The soles literally crumbled away as I walked.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Ouch! So weird. Shoes aren’t made the way they used to be, unless you spend a fortune.
It’s worth getting shoes repaired if they’re the right ones. I had a pair of authentic ‘60s go-go boots that someone gave me in the ‘80s, and I just kept wearing them through the decades, getting the heels and soles repaired. I’d probably still be wearing them if my calves could still fit them. I mostly wore them under trousers/pants. The best shoes ever.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And it's so hard for me to find shoes for my feet to begin with!

[meathiel]

I hope your shoes can ge repaired, though I doubt it.
Never happened to me but to a tour guide on a trip once whose shoes were disintegrating like that.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is one of the weirdest things that has ever happened to me.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I had that happen to a pair of shoes a few years ago. I put it down to the age of them. I was miles from home at the time, so had to hobble into a discount shoe shop to buy a cheap pair of sandals.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think it has something to do with the material — cheep plastic foam — the soles were made of.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Those plastic soles are hard to repair- replace!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know! The upper part is leather (no real one, but still), so I tentatively hope that the guy my colleagues suggested can install whole new soles. These are one of the few shoes that I can wear, no matter how swollen my feet are, as they are laced all the way down to the toes.