Can i get some BOOTS, puh-lease!!!

The search was on...we have tons of snow (for southern Indiana) and a layer of ice in between the layers of snow. My job requires me to go to many different types of homes, some in better shape than others, and some where I knew snow would be calf high and not a shovel in sight. So, I went to get my boots out. Suprise! It turns out I don't have any boots! Well, that's ok, I'll just go buy some...surely you can buy those types of things nearly anywhere. Turns out, not so much. FIrst stop, Biggs (aka the store i hate more than anything...target/walmart wanna be and not even close). Second stop, Kmart. I hate Kmart equally. [remember we live in the BFE and had to venture out during a level 3 emergency to get some boots...and snow/sledding clothes for the bean---def emergency type stuff, so the stores were limited by location and openness]. Anyway, back to kmart...The store where there are prices on nothing and the prices that are actually on items I have to take a double take because I'm just sure they don't really want that much for THAT! But, I did find some men's boots for 15 bucks even though they were a couple sizes too big...so what, who cares!? Turns out I did. After walking around the next morn in them in my kitchen and them sliding off my feet with every step I decided to return them. I would look elsewhere...my job requires me to venture out into actual towns and villages where people actually live and I thought I would pass a million stores with a million boots just waiting to be purchased and proudly placed on my feet thus providing my fee with a warm and cozy happiness. Turned out I was wrong...3.5 hours worth of treacherous driving AND WRONG! After stopping at Kohls, Meijers, Shoe Depot, Sears, Payless, TJ Maxx, and Target [disclaimer, this was a ghetto target so I do not hold Target responsible in anyway for my disappointment or dissatisfaction--I still heart Target Forever]...I was SOL. Let's remember that I was not after fashion, I was not looking to impress or have my feet steal the show or win awards or have anyone wonder where I got my stylish boots...I simply needed boot-type things to place on my feet to keep my lower extremities warm and dry for work and for sledding in my back yard...that's it. No luck. Turns out women only want sparkly-gold-razzle-dazzle-high-heeled-dangly-decorations-tassels-balls-pointy-toed-wedged-heels-tacky-pink-and-pukey-shiney-mirrored(that's right, mirrored)-COTTON(doesn't that defeat the purpose)-blue-and-furry-not-so-much-boots. Literally 3.5 hours later I was completely defeated. So defeated I almost went back to a previous store and bought wedged healted brown vinyl boots...I thought if nothing else they were the closest I'd found to keeping my feed dry, and perhaps they'd add a little flare to my scrubs. But I held out. I will add I did find some boots (worthy boots that actually were snow boots) but they were sixty plus dollars. Again, I wanted these to sled in and to work in...period. I do not hike in the mountains, nor doI ski/visit anywhere remotely worthy of expensive boots. So, after some self talk, I kept driving and went home---empty handed---defeated---a void in my heart. I should also add that in a few stores there were some boots I would have actually considered due to cheapness and not so hideous-ness but the only remaining sizes:2-5 aka miniature women sizes.

Alas, my friends, the day did not end all badly. I found four pairs online at dicks from the comfort of my own couch (after visiting a less than desireable page by typing in d i c k s followed by .com, thinking that was the site of the sporting goods store---uh...not so much---however, I did finally find my desired site). With free shipping both ways I ordered four pairs. I wasn't going to mess this up. Iwill return the undesireables. In less than a week I shall be an owner of cheap, yet decently attractive FUNCTIONAL boots. But, I did have to endure sledding for the second day in a row in my RAIN boots, which I might as well have put on a pair of socks and wraped them in garbage bags and then ventured out into the frozen tundra. Please dickssportinggoods.com don't fail me now...I'm waiting...anxiously for my non-trendy, yet still decent actual snow boots, that didn't cost a fortune. After all the heartache, I'm seriously considering moving to warmer non-snow climate. Every year this sounds better and better and after this debacle it's a serious possibility.

To be continued....