Shoes Shoes Shoes….
I HATE shopping…..
no really I do
and Im not just saying that because I’m male…
I spent several hours (well I don’t know, maybe only 1.5-2) looking around coventry for some shoes..
I don’t ask for much, I’m not particularly bothered about ‘fashion’, something that is neutral-ish, isn’t so heavy that it feels like it was made out of lead, and a good hard wearing sole that won’t fall apart in 5 minutes.
I wouldn’t have thought that was much to ask…
Clarks on the other hand think differently..
they seem to think that £80, yes £80 is a ‘reasonable’ cost.
I then went around other shops, and discovered loads of shoes that were either too expensive, or had a very flimsy sole… or both
You may think I am going a bit OTT on the strength of the sole.. however the last pair I bough had a flimsy sole.. I thought at £20 they wouldnt be that bad.. this is what has happened to them:
hmm…
I did eventually find a pair, but ofcourse as soon as you do, you then feel like “hmm I’ve spent so long looking for shoes.. am I sure I want to ‘make do’ with these?..” just because it suddenly seemed ‘easy’, you are now feeling highly suspicious…
I think next time I will go into Birmingham or similar.. hopefully that won’t be for a long-long-time…
29 Sep 2006 20:29
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But would the £80 shoes really last four times longer than the £20 shoes?
02 Oct 2006, 13:21
unfortunately there is no way to tell (without buying and waiting)...
and I wasn’t prepared to take that risk…
hmm thinking of money, I should pay my tution fees soon…
02 Oct 2006, 13:25
the purple boots of veggieness were £80, but for ordinary shoes that is way too much. Clarks really do rip customers off, but they had the funky foot measuring things from when I was a child. Ahhhh, memories of shoe shopping as a child – the torture and torment.
How long did you have the £20 shoes for anyway?
03 Oct 2006, 20:52
“How long did you have the £20 shoes for anyway?”
er…
3 months..
I think it was because I trekked all around Tunisia in them, and then hill-walking and stuff…
but still my previous pair had lasted about 1 year and cost half as much…
I would complain, except I got them from a shop in Winchester (or Salisbury).. forget which, or which shop.. and don’t have the receipt or anything..
03 Oct 2006, 23:59
Well if you are going to go trekking in them then what do you expect from trainers!!! But they should still have lasted more than 3 months. That is really annoying.
07 Oct 2006, 14:26
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