My Third Attempt to Get Slippers

Tiny Ruby Slippers Needle Minder - Etsy

You’ll have to take my word for it that I don’t have preternaturally large feet and flop around like Donald Duck. I have perfectly normal adult male feet.

And I can’t get any [whole strong of expletives] slippers that fit!

Third try, this morning: from Land’s End, a full size larger than what I normally wear. It still doesn’t &^%$%$ fit! Oh, they’re long enough, all right. But the [censored] toes are all squinched up; it’s like they think I have some kind of insect feet.

We used to have shoe stores. Every last one of them is gone, kaput, extinct. How long can I hold my cheap China Walmart slippers together with duct tape?

Why can’t a grown man find slippers that fit? Oh, but that’s a trick question! Much better is THIS QUESTION, courtesy of the Google search page:

How do you know if slippers are too small?

Wow! I dunno! Consult an oracle? Go back to college for a degree in Slipper Studies and hope you’ll learn something?

The question has taxed my faculties. I must lie down.

6 comments on “My Third Attempt to Get Slippers

  1. They tax everything these days, don’t they? — even faculties. 🙂
    Seriously, though, Minnetonka might be a possibility, as UnKnowable suggests.

    1. Why does that name stick in my mind? Did I do a big deal with them once? I was awful busy as a liquidator, and I’ve forgotten many of the details. It was 20 years ago.

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