07-11-2018, 09:05 AM
I grew up wearing what we referred to as "Bargain Barn Specials". If you looked at them in a really dark room at night wearing sunglasses they looked just like Convers.. Think hard plastic soles with absolutely zero grip..
They really were terrible shoes, but to my mom's defense she was raised during the great depression so kids didn't get a lot of special shoes unless a doctor said you had to have them ..even then my legs would have to fall off first .. I can still remember my dad buying me a good pair of Puma track shoes and my mom had a cow over spending $20 for a pair of shoes I only wore to run track in..they argued all night over those damned shoes.. lol She thought the cheap plastic track shoes the school provided were just fine even if they never fit right and had zero padding..
My mom, god bless her, was the original skin flint.. Tighter than bark on a tree as the saying goes..
Man, I got in more fights over my shoes than anything else.
They really were terrible shoes, but to my mom's defense she was raised during the great depression so kids didn't get a lot of special shoes unless a doctor said you had to have them ..even then my legs would have to fall off first .. I can still remember my dad buying me a good pair of Puma track shoes and my mom had a cow over spending $20 for a pair of shoes I only wore to run track in..they argued all night over those damned shoes.. lol She thought the cheap plastic track shoes the school provided were just fine even if they never fit right and had zero padding..
My mom, god bless her, was the original skin flint.. Tighter than bark on a tree as the saying goes..
Man, I got in more fights over my shoes than anything else.
