Shoes

[brigdh]

I'm having bizarre problems with shoes lately.

It's been warm, so I've been trying to wear flipflops, but I've gone through four pairs in less than four weeks. Two pairs broke- necessary pieces snapped right off- within days of my buying them, and the other two developed tendencies to rub through my skin. The last pair managed to cause a fairly severe wound before I stopped wearing them; it's not that I didn't know it was hurting, I just thought I could wait until I got home to change shoes, or that I'd have more of a warning before, hey, blood. Possibly I should work on being less stubborn.

Now I have a problem in that I'm not willing to wear any flipflops for a time, since the scrape is right over the tendon below my big toe, and there's no flipflops in the world that wouldn't wear it open further. However, wearing regular shoes is also not working, as the one time I tried it the scab melted and stuck to the sock and there was oozing and believe me, you don't want details.

So the obvious solution is for me to just go barefoot for a while. It's not terrible, as long as you stick to sidewalks and watch out for gravel or broken glass or similar things, and I carry a pair of flipflops with me everywhere to sneak through doors and into restaurants and such. But still. I feel so caveman. It's really strange to be out and walking with bare feet.

The strangest things happen to me.

Comments

[eag.livejournal.com]

The best flip-flops I ever got were these $1 pairs they were selling at the swap meet. Made in China, with a woven reed bottom, a rubber sole, and psuedo-leather parts.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the cheap ones do seem to be the best. My favorite were a pair I bought from Target, I think, that had reed bottom and black plastic soles and straps. They were great, but my mom threw them away when I was home last year. Just because the bottom was falling off didn't mean that they weren't wearable!

[eag.livejournal.com]

No kidding! That's what superglue is for. :p

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

I'm sympathetic -- but you do have such a way of highlighting the humorously absurd quality of it all, I'm also giggling. But in a sympathetic way, you understand.

Apparently this is the reminisce about your favorite flip-flops thread: a very pretty light blue covered with very ugly polka dots, but I was backpacking over the UK and my shoes all of sudden decided that now was a good time to give me giant, bloody, painful-icky blisters on my heels. So I bought this pair in the nowhere town of King's Lynn for a pound fifty and grew very fond of them, despite their overwhelming ugliness.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, no, I'm glad. I wouldn't want to post if it had come off as just me complaining.

Everyone seems to agree that the cheap flipflops are the best. I'm convinced that I'm going to end up buying a pair from, I don't know, a gas station in desperation and they will be the perfect pair. *grins*

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

Why don't you get some slide-on shoes like Crocs or something?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Eh, I should. But I don't like those kind of shoes. Still, I guess it's better than bare foot!

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit baffled by "so obviously the solution is to go barefoot", since, yknow, glass and dirt and dog crap and so on are all things I would not want to get near a healing wound... :o Have you tried the Many Sticking Plasters Of Doom approach, possibly held in place by surgical tape, to make normal shoes wearable? That usually works for me. I also have this magical stuff called Sudocrem, which helps things heal much faster.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, the wound's on the top of my foot, so it's not getting dirty. Still, I was mostly being silly with "obviously barefoot!"; I know that most people would not go for that solution at all.

I would have tried Plasters of Doom, but I didn't have any bandaids or anything similiar in the house at the time, and had places to go to before I would get a chance to buy some. Still, now that I have nothing else to do, I suppose I really should try that. Thanks!

[nettlecoats.livejournal.com]

I liked going barefoot at home in the country every summer because I feel tough and macho when I can run down our gravel drive that way, but walking around campus barefoot most of freshman year (uh, I was a Darb, they do that!) the soles of my feet would invariably get coated with guck, just from the sidewalk - it necessitated a lot of extra foot washing and was rather gross. Many Sticking Plasters Of Doom might be the way to go...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Wow, I am impressed- I definitely can't handle gravel, much less running on a whole drive of it. You are awesome!

I'd thought of doing that, but I didn't have any bandaids in the house, much less Sticking Plasters of Doom, and I was feeling too lazy to go buy some. Still, I should probably do that now.