Newfie June - Fred Astaire He's Not

My husband, Steve, thinks he has ugly feet and he's embarrassed about them. Most men actually have ungainly feet with toes that have big joints or really thick toenails. Men's feet generally aren't as nice as women's…although in all fairness; women take better care of their feet than men do.

Steve and his brothers all have feet they inherited from his Mother's family. They are plagued with ingrown toenails and "gnarly toes". As a result, I cannot get my husband to go anywhere barefoot.

Last year, we had planned a trip to Mexico for a week. We were shopping for some holiday duds at my husband's favourite store, Mark's Work Warehouse. As we were walking to the check out, we passed a sale table with some odds and ends at really reduced prices. There on the top of the heap was a pair of black, men's sandals. These did have open toes but were more covered than most men's sandals so my hubby picked them up and said that he thought he might actually wear them. They were marked down to $9.00 and so, to my surprise, Steve took them to the check out. The two shoes were attached together with a plastic tie. They were marked size 11 (his size) so Steve thought he would just take them along…no need to take off shoes and socks in the store to try them on…someone might catch a glimpse of his feet! When we got home, Steve put them on the shoe rack in the bedroom and left them there. When the time came to pack for Mexico, there was "no room" for the sandals (how did I know that was going to happen). So, they stayed on the shoe rack until a few weeks ago.

Our younger daughter recently graduated from an Ontario university. My husband and I flew down for the occasion and while there, planned a side trip to visit his Mother in Kitchener. The weather report said it was already hot in southern Ontario so when he packed for the trip, lo and behold, the sandals got tucked in to come along. I was sure they would never get taken out of the suitcase. One night, while in Kitchener, we decided to take Mom out for supper. Steve thought he might actually wear his sandals so he sat next to me on the living room couch, to put them on. As he was buckling up the one shoe, I glanced down at the other and thought it looked funny. Suddenly, it struck me…he had two left shoes. In the whole year and a half since he had purchased them, with them sitting on a shoe rack in plain view in our closet, neither of us had noticed that they were for two left feet!

My husband always said he hated to dance because he had two left feet; now he has the shoes to fit!

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