a weblog by Dax

The Search

Posted on October 10th, 2006 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.

I have this amazing knack for always wanting a shoe that is no longer in my size, or worse yet, I have a dream about a shoe and they don’t even exist.

I guess you can say that I am bit of a shoe whore, I don’t know what it is, but if I see a shoe that I like, whether it be a sneaker or dress shoe or running shoe, I have to have it, even though I might already have several decent pairs at home.

About 6 or 7 years ago I had a dream about a pair of adidas shoes. The bottom of the shoe was made out of rubber, no big whoop, but the top was made out of hemp, even the three stripes. So I started checking out the stores and couldn’t find them, I started searching the internet, couldn’t find them. I kept searching for around 6 months and could never find them. Spracky and I were at the mall in the spring of 2006 and boom, there were several different styles of the hemp adidas, almost the exact same shape and style of the shoe that I dreamt of so long ago.

Last winter I was looking for a mid-calf leather boot, something I could just throw on with jeans during the winter. I found a pair of Kenneth Cole boots called the High Road. I immediately ordered a pair from kennethcole.com in my size. A week later they tell me that they are out of my size in brown, of course the color that I was looking for. So I started to scour the net looking for other distributors, no luck, the closest I could find was a pair in black, which I didn’t want.

About a month ago Spracky and I were at the mall and I saw a pair of adidas norton hemp sneakers, I had never seen these before. These things were pretty cool looking, as far as sneakers go. The store only had them in a half-size smaller than I wear, I tried them on anyway, and they were just too tight. When we got home, we started checking all over the net thinking that these things must have just been sold out at the store…nope, they had been out for a while and adidas was discontinuing this particular color combination.

Now I am looking for a pair of no skool vans in two different tones of blue with a white van logo. Spracky and I were at one of our local surf shops and I saw them on the shelf. We were out buying stuff for our trip we are taking down to Costa Rica this fall. We had been out most of the day and I really didn’t feel like trying on shoes and what not. Then Spracky aka Jinxy, did what she has the amazing power of doing and jinxed me, she said “You better get them now, because you know they won’t have them when you get around to getting them.”. I didn’t feel like it, so we left. A week passes and I start wanting those shoes, so I went to the surf shop where we originally saw them, they didn’t have them in my size. I could start to feel the curse of the shoes again. I went to the next surf shop and they didn’t have them in my size but they would special order them for me. I was so stoked. On the drive home I got a call from the surf shop, that color combination was discontinued. ARGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

This time I was not going to give up. I looked for those shoes all over the net, mostly surf shops. I found a store that was online out of California that had a limited supply left. I quickly purchased my size and was ecstatic. I waited a week, and hadn’t received my tracking number, so I contacted the store and they told me that I should have received an email explaining that they did not have those shoes in my size, and that they had already refunded my money to my account. ARGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I didn’t even bother to argue with them about their site having my size, among very few sizes listed, at the exact time when I attempted to purchase the shoes.

I could not beleive that this was happening yet once again.

This morning I began my seach for these #@$%#$%$@&* shoes. I actually went to one of those websites that sells nothing but shoes, anybodies shoes, as long as they are shoes. And guess what, they had a plethora of sizes for this shoe. But I was not going to be suckered again. On their website they stated that if I can add my size and color and style of shoe to my shopping cart then they have it in stock. So I attempted to add the exact shoes that I was looking for, and I was able to purchase them. I couldn’t beleive it, I actually have these shoes on there way here. And I couldn’t beleive that it was from one of those sites that always pop-up when you are searching for shoes online.

Now I know that you might think that I am a little neurotic about shoes, and maybe I am just a bit, but what it really comes down to is that I did not want to settle. There are too many times in our lives that we settle, and I really am tired of settling. So if I have to search the world to get a pair of shoes that I want, even if I don’t need them, I am not going to settle. As far as we know this is our only ride on this blue marble and I am going to make sure that I am going to make sure that I don’t have anymore regrets and I am definitely not going to settle.

Dax out-

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