So, i went out for lunch with a friend.

After lunch i spotted a shoe shop. Went in and trawled around, as you are wont to do. And thought to myself, jeeezus, i haven't bought a pair of trainers since those last nikees about 20 years ago. (remember those, buy them a size smaller and they shall stretch?)

So, off i troddle to the wall of trainers. Got attacked immediately, by the thing that sells these things.

And she started to ask questions about how many hours i train per week? F this i just want a pair of trainers to wear with my black leggings and mini skirt or dress.

So, in the end she sold me a pair which i am wearing now, to get them street worthy.

And guess what?

They have sparkly laces. That's good, at least i can potter home in a straight line.

And, as they are white, my legs look rather tanned!!

sparkly laces: cool

If i had a camera i would take a piccie

I am actually sitting now in my new trainers and it is dark

They are glowing

Do your leggings have holes in the knees or not? What color are the sparkly's, I am starting to think you may have gotten Dorothy's slippers by accident.

sparkly laces that glow in the dark, nice.

What is it about sports shoe salespeople that make them so pushy? Regular shoe sales people aren't nearly as pushy as the sports people.

Glow in the dark sparkly laces! Awesome!

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As for the pushy sales staff in sport shoe shops/departments, i guess its just that they want to make sure the customer chooses the most suitable shoe for the activity they do most. When looking around myself, ive seen customers go pick out shoes that were totally inappropriate for the activity they said they were doing, and getting irate with the sales staff trying to tell them the shoe isnt suitable. I imagine the staff also dont want them to come back complaining that they wore out their shoe really soon, or that they have impact problems, so try to get them to purchase the correct type. In the end, the customer should always be right, even when wrong...so long as they dont try to sue for being a moron and running in tennis shoes!

They feel rather strange.

After wearing sandals, or going barefoot, for the past few months, it's going to take a few days to get used to shoes.

I took them off to go to sleep and got up early. It was still dark outside and i could see them glowing. And they have some sort of jazzy design embroidered into them.

I wonder if i can put them in the washing machine.

Not that they need to be washed now, but in the future.

I shall take them for a walk later on. And, knowing my luck, fall flat on my face!!!!

This gets even better.

After admiring them from afar, I picked them up to observe them even closer.

AND they have silvery stitching too!!

I am embarassed to say my last pair of trainers were from one of those second hand shoe shops that crop up here. But barely worn Nike Air Max's for 200 baht. BARGAIN! I know you are not meant to wear second hand shoes, but hey ho!

dam_n things have given me blisters...

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Its often the way with the cute shoes, I have a pair of really cute red adidas sneakers and have to wear bandaids on my heels to avoid blisters.

I think i'm going to drown myself in a very slow painful death!!!

So i have the trainers and the leggings and now i need a Little Kittie bag.

And no doubt someone is going to jump out of the bushes with the latest sunglasses.

Back to my new trainers, the cat has now baptised them with his saliva.

Edited August 29, 201015 yr by Patsycat

Lol, patsy its hello kitty

this one should suit

That's a nice one.

It'll go really well with my fondue pot.

So i have the trainers and the leggings and now i need a Little Kittie bag.

And no doubt someone is going to jump out of the bushes with the latest sunglasses.

Back to my new trainers, the cat has now baptised them with his saliva.

I don't understand the allure of trainers and leggings; is the arrangement supposed to reflect current fashion?

I was in a bar once in Scotland in cold weather where I encountered an older woman without stockings and she had a knee length skirt and broken shoes; she had shapely legs and was intoxicated and she was an associate of my then wife's family...she was engaging as she hadn't met me before...

I couldn't help but notice and when I advised my then MiF the next morning she refused to believe my observation and remarked 'she's as holy as a lamb...'

could have been but she sure was sexy, no stockings/trainers and all...

It'll go really well with my fondue pot

I just spilled tea all over my keyboard .

It'll go really well with my fondue pot

I just spilled tea all over my keyboard .

Be careful, little kitty will jump out at you every time...

And i live in Swissland

Edited September 2, 201015 yr by Patsycat

Hello Kitty, Patsy, not little kitty! lol

and just for your perusing pleasure

Hello Kitty Waffle maker

Hello Kitty Fender guitar

I could do a good Eric Clapton on that one.

Told you, hello kiitty is everywere

On your shoes, t shirts, househole goods. And that was written tongue in kitty cheek.

All pink and lovely. With visors on...

Well, now my trainers have black marks on them, what to do?

Shall i get the hello kitty attack cleaner out?

I also heard toothpaste was good..

Edited September 2, 201015 yr by Patsycat

People buy this stuff? I mean outside Switzerland?

They buy it because it is cute and pink and cat like.

Let me give you some other things for sale -

Manicure

Diamond ring

computer

Arrrrgggghghhhhhh!!!!! Cuteness attack!

Hello Kitty is extremely popular all over Asia, it is a Japanese thing that extends to a Hello Kitty car. There is a lady on Koh Phangan who has a pink car with a hello Kitty face on the muffler exhaust with the mouth being the exhaust pipe.

hello kitty makes me sad...I have a studio photo of my thai step daughter and her cousin with a hello kitty motif...budding young girls, still in school and beautiful...

the step daughter got pregnant a short time later and dropped outta school and later her cousin who was my favorite niece dropped out and ran off with her boyfriend...

beautiful young girls turned into sluts and all because of hello kitty...

hello kitty makes me sad...I have a studio photo of my thai step daughter and her cousin with a hello kitty motif...budding young girls, still in school and beautiful...

the step daughter got pregnant a short time later and dropped outta school and later her cousin who was my favorite niece dropped out and ran off with her boyfriend...

beautiful young girls turned into sluts and all because of hello kitty...

By the power of grayskull, I never knew cartoon characters could be so powerful!

I'll think twice about letting my son watch Tom and Jerry again, lest he become a Klansman.

I take it you are being serious, in which case you deserve all the ridicule you get; if your post was light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek, then I hope you get all the ridicule that you require!

Or maybe you need to post a slightly more detailed anecdote to highlight more closely the relationship between Hello Kitty and under-age sex; no doubt in a few years' time my son will be investing in Hello Kitty soft toys ...

SC

Toots,

I don't think that all the millions of girls who love hello kitty around the world are going to end up pregnant.

I don't think hello kitty has anything to do with what has happened to your family.

Anyway, this was just a silly thread about my silly trainers...

Hello Kitty is the devil in disguise, condemning grown women to adolescent childishness for the sake of cuteness.