Mindfulness Fail A Specialty

1) After squinting at the inside labels, I realize that the shoes I took with me to the Walking Clinic on Friday were the ones I bought elsewhere last spring, *not* the ones I'd bought there last year. And the latter's unsatisfactory New Design and the marvellous Boats are indeed the same model, after I'd noisily insisted they weren't. But the reason the ND looks so different from the Boats is that the one is 9D and the other is (cough) a 9.5 2E. So last year's clerk had the right model, just no notion of my shoe size, and my technician is still quite right- who'd sell you such a narrow shoe?

Luckily they also have a box at the store labelled 'old shoes'. Why? I asked. 'We take them to shelters. As long as they're in reasonable repair. There are people there who have nothing.' So fine, a couple of pairs of good quality walking shoes going to someone with narrow feet. This might also be a use for all the shoes people leave out on the boulevards, along with books; most of them also in good condition
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