Everyday Canvas

Flip Flops

PROMPT: Is there a choice or decision you've had to make in the last year that you wish you could reverse the outcome of? How should it have ended up?

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The title of this entry, in no way, points the finger at the presidential candidates. It is about shoes, but I guess flip flopping tires anybody out whether it is in the head or on the feet.

Thus, chugging along, this prompt is a tough one because I don’t usually sweat over my choices or decisions. I think what’s done is done and go forward from there. A decision with an outcome I didn’t like has been difficult to dig up.

It may sound silly but the only thing I could think of at the moment was a pair of pink flip flops I bought, only because hubby wanted me to get them. Why I agreed, it passes me by. I guess I gave in to his good will or his wish to do something nice for me. It isn’t that I never wear flip flops. I do and a lot, but they all have a good amount of sole and excellent arch supports.

These flip flops, however, were a name brand but plastic and made in China, had very little support, and they cost over $60. For such a thing, if I were shopping on my own, I wouldn’t even spend $10. Still, just to please him, I said yes when he said I should get them, and I honestly tried very hard to wear them after we took them home, but they weren’t comfortable to walk on. They were probably meant for 14 year-olds since their soles were flat and thin.

So without saying anything to him, I wore them a little at a time, and less and less often. After a while, they took a permanent spot at the end of my shoe rack, and then, they found themselves in the AM-Vets donation bag.

I really didn’t like to give them away because they meant something nice concerning my husband. I wish there would be a way I could have worn them or I wish I could have steered his good will toward something I could use, something fitting for my presidential feet.