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[which_chick]

So I'm at WalMart after work today, shopping for new boots for work. The old boots for work are no longer watertight and I'm tired of having prune-toes after cutting dewy grass all morning. It's time for new boots for work. This took rather longer than expected because I have difficulty selecting a pair of work boots that define me as a person. (You're laughing. I can hear you from here. Please stop. I'm being serious, damn it all.) Also, I don't like the girl-work-boots because they're insufficiently work-y and I don't have a hell of a lot of selection in the guy-work-boots aisle because I wear a men's 7 or 7 1/2, depending on how they're cut. (This is usually the smallest offered size for guy-work-boots at WalMart.) So, y'know, suxor. I did buy a pair of boots though they aren't camel colored like the ones I had. They are more chocolate colored. Tomorrow morning I will be stepping out in a bold new color. Fer shurr.



As I was wandering around in existential uncertainty following the momentous decision to purchase chocolate work boots instead of camel colored ones (I freely admit that while I shop for work boots in the men's work boot section, my mind is still firmly ensconced in the girl color section. Men's work boots are probably not colored "camel" or "chocolate". They're probably "yellow" or "brown". But I digress.), I noticed that they're pushing back to school items. I suppose it is August. In one of the aisle-islands, they had a big selection of CDs. Apparently these are a back to school item. Who am I to quibble with the efficient Mass Marketing Machine (tm) that is WalMart? CDs are a back to school item. Gotcha. Anyway, it said "Own the Classics!" I pushed my cart over to see what the Classics! were. I did not expect to see The Bangles. I did not expect to see Whitesnake or Def Leppard. I did not expect to see Billy-fucking-Idol. WalMart, I respectfully submit that I'm not that damned old. Not. NOT, damn your eyes, NOT. I am NOT old enough to be someone else's Classics!

I also picked up two movies I've been wanting to see. (There will be no commentary about the relative quality of the movies. I like bad movies. I really do.) Movie the first: Ocean's Eleven -- haven't seen it yet. Yes, I do live in a cave. Also, I feel like ogling Brad Pitt. Sue me. Movie the second: She's the Man -- Buffy's little sister dresses up in drag for a round of gender-humor with a bunch of pretty young things. (No, I have no standards. None at all. If it sucks, I've just spent 105 minutes looking at a bunch of pretty young things. Oh, the inhumanity! I don't know if I can bear it, but I'll try to press on, if only to be able to review this for your sakes.)

So, tonight is going to be Movie Night. There will be no horse activities this evening. Sorry.

Comments

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

For boots, I'll advertise my favorite cheap website - Sierra (http://www.sierratradingpost.com/). Their stuff is always really cheap, and their shoes tend to be in odd sizes, which is what you're looking for. Here's (http://www.sierratradingpost.com/p/411,72889_Dunham-Crew-Chief-Boots-Insulated-Waterproof-For-Men.html) some waterproof ones in a 7.5, for example.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I am unwilling to buy footwear that I have not tried on. It's a thing with me.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

Well, you better do something about that. We live in The Future, after all. You need to get with the program!

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

In a properly constructed Future, I could try on shoes interactively over the interwebmotron.

[fooliv.livejournal.com]

Have you looked at prices at WalMart for boots & shoes? That website is offering the same class of waterproofed half-boot for $20 more than what I paid for mine at WalMart about seven weeks ago. WalMart's shoe & boot prices are mind-warpingly low.

The 7.5 is a problem, I admit. I will admit to continuing sexism in this here United States so long as workboots are not available in proper women's sizes.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I can (sometimes) find proper work boots in women's sizes -- but not at WalMart. Generally, women's shoes (even work boots) are too narrow for my feet unless I buy wide width (needing a special order width increases the difficulty level for shopping) whereas I can wear off-the-rack standard 7 or 7 1/2 in men's shoes assuming that I can find the size in the first place. Men's shoes are cut wider than women's shoes for the same reason that men's gloves are cut wider than women's gloves.

While nobody asked about the glove problem, I can barely squeeze my hands into women's "large" work gloves. (The XL size, if you can find it, has fingers that are way too long -- what I need is width, not length.) They are tight and bind across the knuckles when I try to bend my hand. Also, women's work gloves usually come in some fucking pastel color. I don't want a pastel color. I am not a pastel sort of person. On the other hand (yeah, that was on purpose), men's "small" work gloves have palms that fit but the fingers are too long. I alternate between grey women's gardening gloves that are too tight and men's buff-colored work gloves that are too large. Neither is particularly satisfactory.

The world does not want to fit me. Stupid world.

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

Yeh, I need wide too. They are hard to come by.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

We don't have Walmarts here.

No, really, there are no Walmarts in the city of Minneapolis. You have to drive out to the burbs to fight your way through the crowds and dirt and crowds. So I don't shop there, so no, I haven't actually checked the prices.