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I think this one is part my fault--including that I was too tired to be shopping in the first place--and partly the shoe company's.
I've been wearing basically the same sneakers for several years. ("Basically" because the company discontinued the model I had been wearing and replaced it with something slightly different.) This means that buying them is a matter of walking into the shoe store, pointing at my feet, and saying "I'd like another pair of these, 8 double wide." They bring them out, I try them on, I pay, I go home happy.
Wednesday evening, I did exactly that, with a brief digression into shoelaces. [Did you know that nobody wants to label shoelaces with what they're made from?] I was replacing a pair that had started to leak slightly, so I went to the shoestore after work despite being tired. I wore the new shoes home. No problem. The next day, I noticed that the left shoe was pressing down on my toes. That isn't a normal "new shoe, need to break it in" pattern for me. It was worse yesterday.
This morning, I got out the new and the previous pair. Both say "US 8" for size. But the old ones are a European 39, CM 25. (A UK 6 or 6 1/2, from memory--that part of the label is faded.) The new ones are a European 7 1/2, European 41 1/2, CM 26. Either the company is doing something really weird and stupid with their sizes, or the salesman misjudged what I was wearing and brought me a similar-looking men's shoe in a men's size 8. (Note for non-North Americans: there's about 1.5 sizes difference between men's and women's shoe size numbers--I'd take a men's 6 1/2, except that the smallest men's size is usually 7.)
I have to go back to the shoe store. I don't know whether they'll do an exchange, under the circumstances. (I do have the receipt, but they have been worn. Briefly, but they've been worn.) If not, I'm going to walk out again and go to the other New Balance store in that neighborhood, rather than give more business to the people who sold me the wrong shoes. But the best case here is that I have to carry an extra pair of shoes with me on Monday when I go to the gym. This also constrains my schedule somewhat--I don't expect them to be open Tuesday (Dec. 25), and I'm leaving for a week in Montreal on the 27th.
Part of the problem with being short on sleep is that not only is my judgment slightly impaired, I lose track of where that applies. Not jaywalking even when there's nothing coming and everyone else is, I can remember. Perhaps I should add 'buy nothing more significant and expensive than lunch" to that list.
I've been wearing basically the same sneakers for several years. ("Basically" because the company discontinued the model I had been wearing and replaced it with something slightly different.) This means that buying them is a matter of walking into the shoe store, pointing at my feet, and saying "I'd like another pair of these, 8 double wide." They bring them out, I try them on, I pay, I go home happy.
Wednesday evening, I did exactly that, with a brief digression into shoelaces. [Did you know that nobody wants to label shoelaces with what they're made from?] I was replacing a pair that had started to leak slightly, so I went to the shoestore after work despite being tired. I wore the new shoes home. No problem. The next day, I noticed that the left shoe was pressing down on my toes. That isn't a normal "new shoe, need to break it in" pattern for me. It was worse yesterday.
This morning, I got out the new and the previous pair. Both say "US 8" for size. But the old ones are a European 39, CM 25. (A UK 6 or 6 1/2, from memory--that part of the label is faded.) The new ones are a European 7 1/2, European 41 1/2, CM 26. Either the company is doing something really weird and stupid with their sizes, or the salesman misjudged what I was wearing and brought me a similar-looking men's shoe in a men's size 8. (Note for non-North Americans: there's about 1.5 sizes difference between men's and women's shoe size numbers--I'd take a men's 6 1/2, except that the smallest men's size is usually 7.)
I have to go back to the shoe store. I don't know whether they'll do an exchange, under the circumstances. (I do have the receipt, but they have been worn. Briefly, but they've been worn.) If not, I'm going to walk out again and go to the other New Balance store in that neighborhood, rather than give more business to the people who sold me the wrong shoes. But the best case here is that I have to carry an extra pair of shoes with me on Monday when I go to the gym. This also constrains my schedule somewhat--I don't expect them to be open Tuesday (Dec. 25), and I'm leaving for a week in Montreal on the 27th.
Part of the problem with being short on sleep is that not only is my judgment slightly impaired, I lose track of where that applies. Not jaywalking even when there's nothing coming and everyone else is, I can remember. Perhaps I should add 'buy nothing more significant and expensive than lunch" to that list.
