Posted on 12/23/2011 4:46:11 AM PST by tobyhill
Hundreds turned out to wait in line … for a pair of shoes.
SkyFOX aerial cams showed lines of people wrapped around athletic stores near Northline Mall.
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Bravo!!! And a salute. It can be done, and it’s so refreshing to hear a personal story like yours.
I wish you well.
I once bought a pair of the cheapest sneakers at Walmart for about $10, garish things with green stripes all over them. I wore them when I went into one of the public housing projects in Minneapolis and a couple of dudes started raving about how cool they were and where did I get them. I hated to tell them the truth.
Speaking of retro shoes, I once owned two pairs of the original Oregon Waffles. My kids and I wore them at track meets and they got loaned to several other kids. They finally disappeared somewhere in the mists of time, but I suppose they would bring big bucks today. The secret to getting rich seems to be to never throw anything away.
OMG!!! So THAT’S what they were waiting in line yesterday?!
Ok, so I live in Houston, and saw these people first hand and at first glance I thought, “are they with the OWS movement or something?”, but didn’t see a sign and they were all sitting on the ground or in their lawn chairs eating McD’s...didn’t bother to find out as I was on a quick shopping mission.
Point being I guess is that it was NOT a cold day to “BRAVE” it was chilly yes, but NOT cold and the entire crowd of them looked as though no one held a job, all younger than 25 and well, I’m sure if ICE would do it’s job could probably deport at least half of them. Disgusting.
Just had to look up Oregon Waffles on ebay. One pair of the yellow and green originals that I had, Buy it Now for $600. (Sigh)
Made in a Chinese sweatshop for pennies on the dollar, shipped via some foreign cargo-line and then trucked across states by who knows who. Compared to the people who work in the factories who produce this fadwear, every single occupy protestor is a one-percenter and every welfare-ghettobanger is ‘the man’.
I don't pay that much for winter boots--and I work on oil rigs in North Dakota.
And now you can’t touch a pair of Converse for under $50 - just bought some for my daughter. And they’re not even the high-tops! Nephew spent $150 on a “collector” pair of Air Jordans last Christmas. I just don’t get it. A good (26-year-old) kid, but everything revolves around stuff.
Astonishing to me was that my stepson liked ME so much so that he ran a bootleg copy of ME on an old machine we had. I think he like it because it was what they were running in a computer class he was taking in high school.
I myself never had to deal with ME. We went straight from 3.X to XP.
Now I am dealing with running Vista on an XP machine with way too little RAM (at work). I can’t wait for the new machine we are supposed to get next year.
More pictures at link below:
Black Eye Friday: Shoppers throw punches over new Air Jordans
Reggie Love's boy toy (the Community Organizer) and Moochelle are just symptoms of a larger sickness. Any culture that would elect the Obamas to office is sick, twisted, greedy, and evil.
This kind of thug behavior is simply more evidence of that.
My very first thought!
Good in theory, but have you ever dealt with a pissed off ghetto black lady?
It’s not pretty. What a scene they’ll make as they get all up in there.
Fist hand she lays on me will be followed by a 9mm to the gut.
I just heard a news report in Austin and the PD had to close two malls because of rowdy shoppers. Some even got pepper sprayed.
You and me both, tick, you and me both. I still have one pair. And the box. Are you a 10-1/2?
I have two pair of the original Nike Tailwind, the first 'air' shoes made by Nike. One's new - if you like running shoes at six+ pounds a pair. NIke worked the kinks (and pounds) out of the whole air thing, but I think I paid $80 a pair for them back in Boston around 1979 - back in the days when the nineteen-mile loop around the BC reservoir was a standard Saturday morning for me and classmates. Did I ever tell you I used to walk to school, uphill, both ways?
That slideshow is so funny! (Well, I know it’s not, really, but all those cops having to be there to keep order because some people can’t control themselves over some shoes?)
The cards are loaded - I think - once a month like at midnight. The local 24 hour food stores are packed that night as card users make a large run right after the cards are “loaded”.
Our local paper as done a couple of stories on the practice. I get to see it in action as the two stores I usually go to have a high number of EBT Card users.
More a 10, but could wear a 10 1/2. I found the waffles great for track running, anything 1/2 mile or longer. They were always a little uncomfortable for long road runs. I burned through a lot of shoes in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Now at 65 I have to baby the knees a bit and it takes a long time to wear out a pair.
I’m with you there. But I’m waiting for usb 3.0 to become the default before I upgrade.
There wasn't much of a midsole of cushioning in running shoes in those days. Boston was the epi-center of the running world, along with Eugene and Pre, with Bill Rogers' running shop, and Etonic Streetfighters(?), and the first New Balance.
I was the weird kid - I ran in elementary school when I didn't have to. I'd still be running today, if it hadn't been for that full shoulder reconstruction. If you go six months+ without being allowed to run (and all the cortisone and 'roids make you put on the weight of a small child), you lose the ability to do what you learned to do over 40 years; yet mentally, you remember what it was like to do it, but your respiratory system and muscles just won't do it. And you don't have the time, with jobs and kids, to build your self back up to that level. I can't come in from class and leisurely jog 5-7 miles every afternoon, or get in those 19-mile Saturdays. And I'm not running seven miles every morning before work.
I miss that runners' high at about the 12.5-mile mark.
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