Best shoes I ever owned
Posted on :
04-28-07 |
Today I ran out to buy a new window AC unit at the Super Target, and as I was walking down the aisles my foot tripped a little bit. I hadn't raised my left foot up high enough, and the base caught on the floor, and I feel something funny. Something vaguely familiar. I looked, and damn if the front edge of my old pair of Tivas wasn't pulling apart and flapping around a little bit.
My poor shoes. I thought you were indestructible. I thought we had an understanding that you were just going to live forever. I had worn you almost 9 months a year for 7 years and the tread on the bottom of your soles is still perfect. What did I do wrong?
This was only the second time I had been able to wear you out this year. Were you this close to falling apart all winter long while you sat on my bedroom floor waiting for the weather to warm up?
We've been through a lot together, you and me. A rough estimate of wearing you 9 months out of each year, almost every day, sometimes twice, would put the figure somewhere around 2,835 times I've strapped you to my feet and took you for a stroll. I've had tennis shoes fall apart in a mere 3 months. My newest pair of work shoes is already having problems, and I bought them only last August. Most shoes of mine have had a lifespan of only 2 to 3 years tops, but you sweet Tiva… you were the energizer bunny of the footwear world.
I admit, I may have really abused you back in 2004, when we went to the last Phish concert, and you were the only shoes I brought. That mud, all 7 inches deep of sticky gooey mess might have been the start of the end. The times I had to wrench my foot from each vortex of mud with each step. I admit, I was surprised you even made it back to Atlanta with me. I'm surprised you didn't get lost in a footstep somewhere when my foot might have come up without you, and you would have been forever lost.
But you didn't give up on me. You always returned from that black hole you found yourself in without even stretching a strap.
I've climbed mountains and hills with you. I've taken you to the beach and camping. We have been out rafting and boating together and I thought we had a really good thing going on. And after all that rough housing, it was the Target that beat you. Who would of thought?
So rest in peace my beloved Tiva. You will soon know what the land fill life is like. Tiva retirement. Sorry, I wish there was a more befitting place to send you. And me? Well, I guess I'll be off to the store soon, because I can't imagine walking through springtime without you.
Goodbye old friend. |
