Shopping: the tale of the shoes

Self-tutoring about discount shopping: the tutor mentions a story.

A few months back, maybe in late September, my wife and I were in a popular discount store. There were a lot of good deals that day, including shoes. Not even planning to, I bought two pairs. One promised to be a useful, durable pair of black running shoes that could pass as work shoes. The other, much dressier, was questionable how it would stand up. However, the dressier pair was $30, so I decided to take them anyway.

The dressy pair looked even sharper in the days to follow, so I came to wear them often. They got hard use for about six weeks. Then, at the end of one day, my ankle bothered me. I realized it was probably because of the shoes.

In fact, those shoes have worn out, structurally. They still look good, but the food bed is no longer stable. Though very elegant, those shoes stood up to day-to-day, full-time duty, for about six weeks.

As special-occasion dress shoes, those shoes might last for ten years. They still look flashy. I bought them out of curiosity, and really, they didn’t let me down.

It can be so interesting what one finds at a discount store.