I’ve been an Amazon Prime member for a number of years. As such, they occasionally send me “helpful shopping suggestions” based on whatever I’ve recently been looking at on their site. Today…they sent me this for a recommendation:
Now…I haven’t worn anything other than flats for 3+ years. The decision to go totally flat was based, at the time, on the increasing gulf between that 29 fiction I keep attempting to run regarding my age and the real, chronological amount of time I’ve spent converting perfectly delicious foodstuffs to various waste products. It was also based on how my feet felt in anything that elevated my heels above my toes, and how difficult it was to maintain an upright posture when wearing such things.
Balance…I have not.
So why would Amazon have a pair of platform, stiletto-heeled, over the knee black patent leather boots as something I might actually buy???
They must want me dead…because I’d have to be in such a state to wear those things.
Granted, when I was young and foolish enough to go into one of the big shoe stores in the MALL (nope, never again!) I used to try on things like this. Not because I liked them, or could envision me ever wearing them, but because I considered them to be too ugly to not try on, totter around in, and laugh at.
I once had a pair of little old ladies ask me ‘Where you goin’ in those shoes, Daaaaaahlin?’ when I was wobbling about in a pair of sparkly gold, patent-leather, platform/6 inch heel pumps.
I told them the Emergency Room was the most likely destination.
I just can’t understand why Amazon would wish me ill. I did some of my Christmas shopping on their site…ordered more of my toothpaste, and got some stretchy tank tops to wear under everything else in a desperate bid to keep warm in the frozen tundra. If I don’t have at least one box with the little Amazon Smilie on it…the house just doesn’t feel right.
Why this overt threat against my ankles, Amazon? Are you THAT pissed that I bought some stuff from Etsy?
No, no,no! You missed the point completely. Look at the description– “Fantasy Boot.” They sent you that just so you could pretend to wear them somewhere. Where is entirely up to you!
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If I end up in an imaginary ER over these boots, can I ignore the bill?
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Of course not! But you can pretend that you are fully insured.
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I’m pretending I have one of those ‘Cadillac’ plans, then…where I never see a bill. If the imaginary ER wants to sue, they can talk to my pretend lawyers.
That’s what I believe I pay them for…
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It was the stretchy tank tops. Way too daring. 🙂 I kinda glanced at a light bulb on Amazon once – we were looking at floodlights for our porch. For the next six months, my feed was all about lights, lamps, bulbs, candles, and anything that casts light. It was kind of amusing. Nothing so daring as those boots though. 🙂
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Good thing I didn’t look at lingerie…
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🙂
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Accept it as flattery and send them money as a thank you. It works for me……I mean flattery, not the boots idea.
(honest).
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So Amazon thinks I have the legs and balance to pull those boots off? I did walk to work all summer long (when the weather cooperated)…so maybe they’ve been stalking my blog as well as my browsing history.
I feel the curious need to craft a tinfoil hat now…
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LOL!! You’ll be getting all kinds of interesting suggestions now 😂😂
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