Free your toes
Once someone told me how they can pinpoint americans. They wear jeans with flipflops. At the time I thought that was a weird comment, because it seems like a normal, especially comfortable, combination. But the flipflop stereotype holds true here. I haven’t seen anyone else’s toes. Minus one time, but they were clearly american too. In chaco’s, props.
Let me brief you. When you walk into a house, you take off your shoes, either right outside the front door, or right inside and put on slippers of some kind. I thought it was just a gesture at first, but now I realize its kind of a big deal. Yesterday I put on my tennis shoes and just walked upstairs for a second, and the maid looked at my feet..you know with a kind of weird look. Lots of feet peeking going on. Then I saw the mother, Fusun, specifically take her tennis shoes out to the patio to put them on. Its hard to try and get away with wearing shoes in the house even a little! I find myself always taking them on and off. Off to lay on the couch, on when I step out of bed, off to change shoes, on to go outside…or do I? Haven’t mastered slippers and the outside world yet. More tricky than youd guess.
Here’s a tribute to some famous feet. Chime in if I forgot yours.
Kim- You’d never be able to show off your cute handmade toe designs. No one would notice your post-toe trauma either tho.
And Dana with her super adorable LA-pedicured bubble toes would go to waste :(
Matt, you’d go nuts, period.
Dad: No one would have to ask you to put those nasty toes away. Please, before I puke in my mouth a little bit.
Lauren. I’ve been told that summer if officially gone, so that means no flipflops (like its probably ok anyways, psh). Come here and be the extreme flipflop-wearer that I know you are! F it, 5 degrees outside? Where are my sandals?!
I say free dem toesies!
