Uppity Software - Shoes - Rental Cars

[Rita Winston]

Ben quoted:

>"You have no permission to talk.  Goodbye" (Pine's 
> response to me trying to locate an earlier message

Remembering that 'talk' is frequently used to mean 'speak' (and if you
can't speak without permission, how can you speak to ask permission?),
that sounds like a cross between Snape and "you ARE the weakest link". 

> I just wondered  does this sort of thing happen to
> anybody else? (I mean thinking in completely different ways 

I almost always think in words. Sometimes words that I am saying and
sometimes words that I am hearing (but in my own internal voice) and
sometimes (fastest, deepest, most focussed) words that exist (when I
read that focussed, then also the words just exist). When I was young, I
was told that my father and some other people thought in math. I could
not even begin to imagine what that would be like. 

> Having said that buying shoes is always a painful 
> experience, especially in Oxford.   

I am slightly acquainted with one Patrick Brady, originally from the
vicinity of Liddesdale. I think he went to Oxford; he now works at a
research institute in London. I made his acquaintance via a marvelous
rant he wrote about the suppression of the Borderers (Reavers) -- his
people -- and by way of excusing himself for speaking on the politically
incorrect subject of ethnicity, he said the ONLY way he can find shoes
to fit the shape of his feet is to shop in Liddesdale when visiting his
family.

Maybe you need to shop for shoes in a region where people have feet like
yours.

Anyway, what the hell is this alien thought-space where young people are
going to $100/person dances that require formal black shoes (other than
high school prom, that is)? I thought young people went dancing in clubs
and so on, and OLD people (my age) dressed up formal for dinner-dances.

Scott wrote:

> The only thing I hate more than shoe shopping is wearing 
> shoes. :-) 

I would much rather shop for shoes than wear them! If it weren't for the
money, I would LOVE buying dozens of beautiful sexy or funny shoes that
I don't have space to store and end up never wearing.

When I was young, I went barefoot all the time -- carried flip-flops
with me to put on when going indoors(!). Then I went back East to
college and walked barefoot in snow ONCE! (It wasn't intentional: I'd
dashed across the quad from my dorm to the library, then gotten
distracted in the library, then when I emerged, there was snow.... I
still went barefoot when not in snow, ice, nor science lab.... Until I
moved to New York City, first sharing an apartment in Queens. One
barefoot walk to grocery store was sufficient proof that there is more
broken glass splinters and fragments on the sidewalks of New York than
my Los Angeles calluses could protect me from. When I returned to LA
after 4.5 years, I had lost my calluses and had to WEAR my flip-flops
when walking on gravel, asphalt, hot concrete....  But I wouldn't mind
wearing sneakers, Hush Puppy shoes (of the same style as Barry's
Wallabies, not dress Hush Puppies), or my expensive handmade custom-made
moccasin boots from Ren Faire if only my feet didn't get HOT!

> I wonder what type of shoes Hogwarts kids wear

I feel sure it is mentioned in the books that they wear trainers
(sneakers or tennies to us Yanks).

DAI helpfully gave me the URL for Hertz UK -- which offered a drop-down
menu of ten locations in London, but I have ABSOLUTELY no idea where
those locations are! YAEL had the right idea -- it's for a quick mention
in a fanfic (renting a car to carry the kids to King's X for Hogwarts
Express, then leaving them unattended while returning it).
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