Foaming-mouthed rant ....

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XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
This is something that has bugged me for years, and I have finally SNAPPED!!!! (straight jacket and yummy vallium please!!! Or phenobarbitol ...)

It goes like this (with a little artistic licence and exaggeration thrown in for effect):

I make the trip to the horrible, gaudy, nasty, heaving, chav-filled town centre to find a new pair of trainers. I have to elbow and punch my way through the rabble to get to the show shop, where I spend ages trying to find a pair of cheap, comfortable trainers that don't look like they've come straight from a cartoon and been inflated with a bicycle pump. At the same time I am trying to fight off the attentions of a pubescent, acne-covered shop assisstant who wants me to buy some space-age ubertrainer for £150.

I find the requisite article, punch and elbow my way to the queue for the counter.

Eventually I get to pay. Then I go home and scream obscenities at the cooker, just to vent my anger!

The whole process takes me a morning, at least, and I am fuming! All I wanted was a pair of bloody buggery shoes!

Eventually the bloody buggery shoes start to wear out and I need another pair.

It is at this point that I have a cunning plan ...

I know the make and "model" of the shoes I bought last time, so it should be painfully easy to just go online, find the same thing and order a straight replacement. Five minute job, excruciatingly painfully easy, no hassle whatsoever.

Or so you would think ... no, I turns out that my particular "model" of bloody buggery shoe is no longer being made, or anything remotely like them, even though they're only a couple of years old.

So the only option I am left with is either to wear plastic bags or repeat the whole fiasco of elbowing and punching and biting my way back to the shoe shop on a heaving saturday afternoon ... I find that a golf club appropriated from the outdoor sports department works well as a queue-buster when it is rammed firmly up the arse of the chav in front - each one makes a different kind of astonished falsetto screaming noise while wiggling around like a cretin. :angry:

Rant over! I thank you.
 

Ashtrayhead

Über Member
Location
Belvedere, Kent.
Do your shopping on Amazon......you'll be much calmer!!!
 

steve52

I'm back! Yippeee
sandels theres never a que in my local sandel emporium and i buy a new pair every 3 years whearther ive worn the old ones out or not, mind u i do struggle to find a decent winter sock
 
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XmisterIS

XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
The trouble is that you have to try a shoe on before buying it! So it would be lovely to find a brand that they don't change every five minutes!!

Oh, and this ...

... can only be given this reply ...

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snorri

Legendary Member
XmisterIS, I'm shocked.
I'd always thought of you as the young trendy type, now you tell you would be quite happy to wear trainers in a style that was fashionable two years ago. Your image has been shattered.:sad:
 

funnymummy

A Dizzy M.A.B.I.L
I so feel your pain x Shoe shopping is the bane of my life!
#2 wears a leg brace, so he needs a size 1 for his right foot, and a size 4 for the left. He aslo drags the left leg so wears that shoe out within a couple of months.
He hates shopping, at least one complete meltdown per trip, so I too return home to shout at the cooker on a regular basis!!
It drives me mad when shops stop stocking/making a particular shoe, he's had the same style from Clarkes for a year now, i've only had to buy a pair to replace the worn out left shoe, but suddenly they no longer do that style, so we have to endure the whole go into the shop, wait for someone to serve use, measure his feet, find a style he likes, but is practical enough to fit over his orthotic and is stocked in his size..
Why change now Clarkes...???
 

AnythingButVanilla

Über Member
Location
London
I also feel your pain. It has taken me six months to find a pair of trainers that I like and even then I only like them, not love them. Why is it so impossible to get a pair of DCs or Vans that are nice, in my size and not bloody pink? The mens styles are what I want but they don't come in a size 5 and I still need to get new gym trainers but I'm all out of patience for the time being :angry:
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Find a pair that you like, then buy two or three pairs :thumbsup:

(runs and hides from golf club swinning nutter)

I wish that I'd done that when Halfords had a sale of Vans SPD shoes around six years ago. They were being sold at £12 pair and I only bought one pair. They proved to be the most comfortable SPD trainers that I have ever owned. I'm willing to pay full whack for a replacement pair if they still made them. :sad:
 
Sportshoes.com is good. My Dad's been a club runner as long as I can remember and he's used their big actual shop ever since his other local shop closed down when the owner had a baby and the council put here rates up back when I was a young schoolboy. I think they may sell chav wear as well as decent trainers but they're run by runners (sorry) and I've used their online shop several times.
 
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