Today I left the house with mismatched shoes

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i) How thick am I?
ii) Was I right to turn around and run home, already half an hour late and a good ten minutes from home? I could have just said I'd sprained me ankle and needed to wear funny shoes cos of the swelling if anyone noticed.
iii) What have you done like this?

(fortunately my lecture appears to have been cancelled)

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was about 8, I put my left shoe on my right foot and vice versa.

But, this story is really cool! Were they vastly different shoes?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

(i) Not thick, just in a hurry with far too much on your mind. Probably "just chill out a bit" wouldn't be useful advice in the middle of a busy college term.

(ii) Yes, you probably should've told the sprained ankle story. Sooner or later tho someone would've said "That's just a cock and bull story you made up coz you left the house with mismatched shoes!" and you would have to look sheepish and say "Yes, you're right."

(iii) Mismatched socks, buttons undone, fly undone. Jumper back to front or inside out.

As for the lecture - it's always the way isn't it?

Wait, none of my lectures were ever cancelled!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

On my right foot a plain dark blue generic (alright, M+S) blue trainer On my left foot, a really chunky Airwalk shoe, dark blue but with loads of bright blue trim.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

But, this story is really cool! Were they vastly different shoes?

Prolly not, but that would've been cooler:

Stiletto heel and wellington boot.

DM and tartan bedroom slipper

Moccassin and pointy Arabian Nights type thing (like Bob Hope wears in Road to Morrocco).

ect ect.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The above shoe combinations will soon be appearing in Hoxton boutiques at £300 a pop, of course.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry, Graham. I've done the same thing too. More than once. The moral of the story for me seems to be "Don't Get Dressed In The Dark". I've gone to work before wearing one navy blue court shoe and one black one. Different styles, different heel heights. When someone commented, I just told them that I had another pair JUST LIKE IT at home (then walked around barefoot all day, feeling v stupid)

Once I went to school (aged 7) wearing pink fluffy slippers by mistake. Why did my father not say anything as he dropped me off at the school gates??

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in terror of doing this.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I have actually done this before. Hey, when you own four pairs of Chelsea boots, it's not that difficult. Suddenly you look down and realise that you've got one square-toed Chelsea Boot and one round-toed Chelsea Boot, whoops!

I have gone onstage with mismatched boots, on purpose. Going for the Nancy Sinatra look, my former housemate and I bought one pair of white kneehigh boots and one pair of black kneehigh boots, and we each wore one of each to the mod black & white ball. It looked fucking fantastic, especially since I was wearing a checkerboard op art print minidress.

― kate, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I do this. It's pretty good. Makes you look a bit incompetent.mad. I have also done it for reasons of expediency: my comfortable shows for playing football in had a whole in the right one so I wore the left one couple with some uncomfy Gola configuration.

Also, who can deny the classic: one football boot, one shoe setup? Football boots aren't comfy but enable more purchase on the ground and more power in kicking the football so WEAR ONE, and reserve comfort for yr weaker foot thereby enhancing the footballing experience.

― dwh (dwh), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

hole & coupled, obv.

― dwh (dwh), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Curlers wear one slidey shoe and one grippy shoe.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I once had to come home from work when I realised I'd forgotten to put my bra on.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You sparrow-dog!

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Mismatched Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star hightops wer the cornerstone of my fashion in high school. Favorite combos were black/white, red/turquiose and forest green/navy.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't ever remember mismatching my shoes, but I usually mismatch my socks.I only have navy blue and black socks so its hard to tell

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

a friend of mine wore very mismatched shoes to a job interview, they were even different heights in the heel ( though not to an extreme). she didnt get the job, but we dont know if it was the shoes or her general air of 'confused personal mayhem' at the time.

it isnt as uncommon as you think, once you admit to it.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 28 November 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Once it was winter (good start eh?) and I put my bra on over the top of my t-shirt when I got up, because it was too cold to get completely undressed but it's uncomfortable not wearing a bra, and then I put my jersey on over the top. Later I went to a party and completely forgot and took my jersey off and was walking around and stuff. But the weird thing is, no-one looked twice! Because it was a kind of singlet-bra, I guess. Thanks Madonna, I owe you one.

― m*ry*nn (maryann), Thursday, 28 November 2002 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

'The weird thing is, no-one looked twice' - my explanation for that is pretty convincing, eh?

― m*ry*nn (maryann), Thursday, 28 November 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother always pours orange juice in her cereal in the morning. She has also put cat food in the washing machine instead of detergent. (My clothes started smell like cat food when I washed them.)

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 28 November 2002 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was about 6 or 7, I walked into the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. I walked over to the light switch, pressed it down expecting water to come out. Crazyness.

― Shaz, Friday, 29 November 2002 02:12 (twenty-three years ago)

let's "don't get dressed in the dark"!

http://www.pasd.wednet.edu/school/sms/0102_events/010924_spiritweek/img/mismatch_010927.jpg

― dakatin, Friday, 29 November 2002 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I told the story before about how, one day last term, I sat into the passenger seat of my car and was kind of sitting there thinking "eh there's something I'm meant to do right now but what". Then I realised my error.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 November 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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