These are my flip flops.
The wife got them for me a long time ago. They're my favorite. Although they look ridiculously old and worn down, they are the most comfortable things I've ever worn on my feet.
I once knew a guy in high school who always wore his favorite flip flops as well. Only, he literally wore them every day. They were so broken in that there was a hole in one of them, right where his big toe went. The bottom of the other one was completely covered in duct tape because it literally would've fallen apart otherwise. I asked him why he didn't get a new pair and he simply replied, "because they wouldn't be these." He and his flip flops had been through so much together that every blemish was a story - a memory. He wouldn't trade them for the world. I find it difficult to get that attached to mine, because...well, they're freaking flip flops.
I could understand the sentimentality if they were, say, puppies. Or some kind of mythological creature that you just happen to stumble upon in your back yard. Like a gryphon or something. That would be flippin' sweet. I would totally make it a saddle and fly around with my shirt flapping in the wind like Atreyu did on Falcor. That is, if it didn't try to eat me first. And there's a good possibility of that happening, especially if I covered it's belly in duct tape and punched a hole in it's face with my big toe like that dude did with his flip flops. You should never treat your pet gryphon like a pair of flip flops. That's totally not where I expected to go with this.
If you look at the picture, you'll see that one is more worn down than the other. I just can't figure out why. Maybe it's because I walk heavier on my left foot than my right. But usually you walk heavier on whichever foot corresponds to your dominant hand, which in my case would be my right. A childhood mentor of mine taught me that to figure out whether your cat is right- or left-handed (or would it be left-pawed?), you put them on a sheet of carbon paper, and make them pounce off of it. Whichever foot makes the darker impression is their dominant side. I thought about testing this, but my cats have a habit of trying to eat everything that I don't want them to. I'm not sure what would happen if they ate carbon paper. But wait a second - who actually has carbon paper just lying around? I guess I could use my checkbook...
This is all for now.
-R.
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