Mismatched Shoes
After ankle surgery, my right foot was very swollen. I couldn’t possibly wear my regular grey sneakers. So I bought another pair a half size bigger. The big shoe went on my right foot, the regular shoe on my left. Since the bigger shoe was sold out in grey, I wore one black shoe on my right foot, and one grey on the left.
People stopped me wherever I went – at the grocery store, yoga, lining up for a gluten-free blueberry muffin.
“Do you realize you’re wearing two different shoes,” they asked, wondering if I’d gone dotty.
Sometimes I answered, “Gosh. No. Thanks for telling me.”
On other occasions, I told them the shoes came that way. “Matching sneakers are totally passee. I got these from Neiman-Marcus. You better get rid of yours.”
Wearing mismatched shoes is good for stimulating creativity. Try it, without ankle surgery. Surprise yourself.
© 2022 Molly-Ann Leikin