The Wannabe

I’m not a shoe person.  There was a time when I owned one pair of shoes that I wore until they fell apart and then I just threw them away and got a new pair (not in that order).  Then I married Shanan, the shoeholic.  I love my wife dearly but the woman buys shoes, wears them once, and then puts them in the closet, never to be seen again!  While this behavior certainly didn’t help my indifference to shoes, it did help to show me that perhaps one pair of shoes wasn’t enough.  I now own several pairs of shoes, but each of them has a specific purpose:

• Black dress shoes
• Brown dress shoes (my wife forbids black shoes and brown clothing to be worn together)
• Casual, slip-on weekend shoes
• Junk/yard-work shoes
• Running shoes
• Sandals

A relatively short list covering all the basics, right?  Well I’ve got a confession.  Lately I’ve developed an OBSESSION with NikeID shoes.  Basically, they’re Nike shoes that can be customized with your choice of color.  You can even add your name onto the tongue or heel of most of them!  They’re moderately expensive and they take about a month to arrive, but then you have a pair of shoes that very few other people in the world have!  Incidently, my running shoes are NikeID shoes, and every time I wear them in public I get at least one comment to the effect of, “Wow, great shoes!” or, “Where can I get a pair?”  Here’s a picture, along with a collection of other shoes that I’ve built (click on the picture to see more angles).  Note that I don’t actually OWN any of these shoes, except for the first pair.