shoes

-- are things that i keep putting off buying, even though i know that i look like a street urchin every time i step outdoors. issues:

1) i have virtually no aesthetic sense in shoes, and the little that i do have goes towards telling me that cheap ones look tacky, leading consequently to

2) i have to shell out a pretty chunk of change for a pair. offputting, which means that

3) i wait for payday to come around so that i don't feel so poor when i buy them, by which time

3a) i have forgotten that i need them

3b) the ones i want are no longer on sale, or are about to go on sale, or are sold out.

4) i will never again be able to relish the sublime joy of buying a pair of green suede hush puppies, the very apogee of the shoe-buying experience, next to which all other purchases must necessarily pale in comparison.

nevertheless, i will brave aldo (SALE: 70% off) tomorrow, and i will buy something, and perhaps regret it, because whatever my look is, 'old and worn' probably is not it.