Shoes and shop

[Pigwidgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Benjamin" <jaffa276 at y...> wrote:
> Really Simon, you mean you've spent the morning going round a 
> beautiful city, on a sunny day, with a friend, without any work to 
> do what so ever...  

The sun has come out now and I am totally worn out and feel like 
going to sleep.


Ben:
> Having said that buying shoes is always a painful experience, 
> especially in Oxford.  I have to start looking months before my old 
> ones wear out, as no-one sells size 11.5, so have to find a extra 
> large 11 or, more usually, a small twelve, which are very rare.  

Sheryll:
> My first thought was to offer you Andy's dress shoes
> (which sit in the closet and never get worn). However,
> a) no one wants to wear someone else's shoes
> b) it's a long hike to come and get them (and a bit of
> a swim to boot!)
> c) I've never met anyone else who wears a size 13 shoe

Well I now have a pair. Oxford is crap for shoe shops. I have a real 
problem finding shoes to fit as my feet are so small (size 6 1/2).


Ben:
> Surely you have formal black shoes though - for sub-fusc?  Mind    
> you, when doing my prelim. exams I had to patch my shoes with a    
> Minstrels wrapper (can't revise *and* go shopping)

I do have a pair for that, but hey are painful. I am going to Queen's 
on Firday (http://www.thequeensball.com/) and to wear my old pair of 
shoes would have been a very painful mistake. Hence the need for a 
comfortable new pair of shoes.


Ben:
> Go and have lunch, it'll make you feel better (and when you're out 
> this afternoon you could get some more hair dye ~ Straw!Simon seems 
> to be growing on me, and I was right, it is option b, although 
> should've given c as well.) 

I've had lunch, got hte shoes and now feel a lot better. Pity no one 
else knows what options a, b and c mean. Else that comment could be 
very funny.


Sheryll
> The reason I thought of offering them in first place
> is because I hate shopping and totally sympathise with
> anyone who must spend hours in stores looking for
> things.

I hate shoe shopping. I am ok with most other things, but finding 
shoes to fit is very very difficult and so I do not like doing so.


Simon