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Shortly after I moved to Brussels I found out that the Belgians - those living in this city at least - love cobbles. I'm not a huge fan but I can put up with them. Sadly, I cannot put up with them in the thin soled shoes I had bought a couple of years beforehand. I needed new shoes with sturdier soles. I went shopping.
I saw a pair of shoes I liked in a shoe shop, tried them on, walked around for a bit and decided that the soles felt thicker and sturdier than those on the pair they were replacing and made my purchase. I probably spent about 10 minutes on the whole process. I should have spent a few more.
This afternoon I was walking up the hill on my way back from work and thought that I'd trod on something unpleasant. I wiped my feed and continued. The feeling continued, too. I wiped again but the chunk of stuff that was stuck to the sole of my right shoe wouldn't budge. I was worried that I had trod in some kind of plasticised super-turd. After considerable scraping on a convenient piece of metal something dislodged. I averted my eyes and continued on my way.
When I got back home I checked the bottom of my shoe before walking inside and noticed that it had a strange leather swoosh on it - and that most of the leather had come loose. It wasn't a super-turd. It was a stupid design flaw in the sole.
Frankly, I'm disappointed with a pair of shoes that doesn't even last six months. I'm doubly disappointed because I'd mainly been wearing a seasoned pair of boots but had to switch to the shoes when the weld between the sole the uppers on one of the boots sprung a leak.
Lesson learned? Turn shoes over to check the soles before buying them. Frankly, I wouldn't have bought them if I'd noticed the stupid swoosh in the sole. Oh, and don't buy Skechers because after a while it feels like walking on dog turds.
