Monday, December 7, 2009

Just Pick One, Please? My Feet Hurt

I'm going to call this a throw-back blog. Starting out with the company I work for at the management level requires supervision of the shoe department; a key element is selling shoes. Now ladies, please don't get offended by this, but I have the experience to back this claim and I think you will find it hard to refute it: Women are monsters when they are shoe shopping. Ask to try on six pairs, and if the salesman is lucky, you buy one, or the Holy Grail, two. The irony here is while the woman is asking to try on all these shoes because her walking shoes are hurting her feet, the salesman is walking two or three miles over the course of walking back and forth between her and the stockroom.
Is this really necessary? If you ask her, it is: It has to be the right color, it has to provide enough support, it has to look CUTE, it has to match her jogging clothes, it has to breathe well, it can't make her feet look too big or too small, it has to be high on the ankle to offer ankle support but it can't be too high because then it won't look right, and OMG, the laces can't be too long or too short. Trust me, the paragraph I just typed didn't take several minutes to compile. I literally typed that out in seconds because I have done this OVER AND OVER AND OVER again and heard the same things OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Vince Vaughn would explode from the neck and his head would shoot off like a rocket if he had to be a shoe salesman at Macy's (not saying that is where I work) for more than five minutes.
I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Phew, I'm spent.

1 comment:

  1. Haha that's pretty funny, now i feel bad if I've ever been that indecisive. It is sort of annoying. I apologize from behalf of all customers

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