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When I was a kid they used to have x-ray machines in shoe shops. They were big wooden boxes with a slot at the bottom where you inserted your foot and a screen at the top where you could look down into the sickly green glow and watch your toe-bones wiggle about.  At some stage the boffins realised it was unhealthy to have all that radiation washing around- and the machines disappeared. They were fun.

My mother taught me that you don't skimp on shoes. Especially not with children. I used to buy my kids the most expensive shoes that money could buy, even when I couldn't really afford it. Ailz likes to remind me of the time- very early in our courtship- it may even have been our second date- when I took her to Clarkes in Bolton to kit the kids out for the new school year- and we had to wait an hour for their little feet to be measured and fussed over-  and Mike and Joe rolled around on the floor and were loud and annoying. She says she must have been very keen to be with me not to have turned on her heel and walked away.

We were in Wyndsors yesterday. Wyndsors is very cheap. All the windows are papered over with bright green posters announcing just how cheap they are. The shoes are on racks and you help yourself. Ailz's dad bought slippers and Aiz got a pair of sandals that cost her all of £2.00.

Date: 2010-07-18 08:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
I used to walk everywhere, but then we got a car and I've grown lazy. I've grown less careful about shoes too. When I'm at home I wear slippers. Ailz shouts at me for not picking my feet up properly and sort of slip-sliding around the house.

Date: 2010-07-18 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] oakmouse
LOL! Yeah, my mother used to yell at me for dragging my feet when I was a kid, because I fell a lot as a result, except in my case it was heavy orthopedic shoes that made me drag my feet.

Date: 2010-07-18 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
That must have been harsh- having to wear those heavy shoes as a child.

Ailz hates the sound I make with my flapping slippers. I rather like it.

Date: 2010-07-18 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] oakmouse
I hated it. They had steel wedges in the soles and were heavy and noisy. I had to wear them from when I got out of bed in the morning to when I got back into bed at night. On the other hand, if not for those shoes I wouldn't have been able to walk at all.

Funny how a sound can appeal to one person and upset another.

Date: 2010-07-19 09:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
Ailz is noise sensitive. All sorts of things I barely notice annoy her and get on her nerves.

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