It all started in Niagara Falls. My friends and I were walking around the morning after grad, going through all the little shops, when what did I see, but a box of colourful… things. Upon closer inspection, they appeared to be shoes… shoes with holes… shoes… ugly shoes.
I just dismissed them as kid’s shoes and went on with my day. But then at the next store… there they were again. And then at the next… and the next…!
Okay, maybe Niagara Falls is just full of crack heads.
But then I see them in stores. In real stores. At Sarnia Bayfest! And gasp — that’s where I saw people actually wearing them! And not just any people — well, no, not like, Steven Tyler… but that would be amusing. Well, actually I guess they were just “any people” — but, but they were GROWN people! Not five year old girls, who even they would look utterly ridiculous wearing. People. Adult people!
What is WRONG with people? Why are these shoes everywhere, and why do people buy them!?
Supposedly, they are really comfortable. And that’s what makes me really confused and scared. Normal people aren’t supposed to care about “comfort”! They are supposed to care about “looks”!
Today on Digg there was an article about Crocs being combined with Uggs, a shoe which was my previously most hated shoe. But those are kind of old, aren’t they?
I don’t know. I just don’t get it. I don’t get shoes. Why do people like ugly shoes?
Maybe I’m just from the future, and it’s like if someone was sent back to the 80s from today and started ranting about “oh my god, your hair, those jeans — so ugly!” and everyone just laughed at them, but it was true, you know? So yeah, I’m probably from the future.
A thought just crossed my mind. Actually, not just, but close enough. Actually, I now forget, but — oh yes! I happened to be on The Hollies Wikipedia article and one of the members of the group was also a member of the group The Move. Hmm, name sounds kind of familiar…
Now, this got me thinking, like if I had a wiki in which every article was relevant to me — or maybe just a regular old encyclopedia — hey, it would be kind of like my brain! But it would be cool to read, you know, because you’d remember stuff you thought you forgot. But you see, on “The Move” page in my personal wiki, it would probably say something like “best remembered as being on the other side of the paper of The Monkees that her grade eight math teacher photocopied for her”.
Man, I wish I had a brain. I mean, wiki.