A thread about boots

I'm not ashamed to say I own a shitload of shoes.
When it comes to shoes I'll outgirly any girly girl, nearly.
Herself has fewer shoes than me, by seven pairs. Of
course, she has no running shoes. Two pairs of trainers,
that's it. I have several pairs of running shoes, varying
in price from fifty quid to a hundred for my Asics which
I use on the road.

Some of my shoes are older than my oldest grandchild.
I bought three pairs of shoes in Rome last summer.
My youngest grandchild, who writes, wrote, "Granddad
bought more shoes today." She likes to analyse my
eccentricities and write them up for the family website.
She thinks I have a problem with shoes. Of course,
she is wrong. I have a problem with space. There are
many storage options, all of which I have utilised at
one time or another. I keep all my mocassins in an old
steamer trunk which I shake up occasionally to give
the shoes a nice distressed look. Weejuns particularly
benefit from a light battering. Finding pairs is half the
fun.

No, the real problem is boots. I have nine pairs of boots
for riding. Each pair is bike specific. Touring boots, racing
boots, road boots, and a pair of long boots I bought in
a tack shop, ideal under full Belstaff oversuit, tucked into
a pair of jeans. Shoes are on average so high, right? In
other words your bespoke shelves can be built X inches
by X inches, sorted. Not so with boots. They need tall
shelves. The tallest shelves for boots like the long boots
described above, accommodating wellies etc. There's
this annoyingly assymetrical look about boots on a shelf.
I pucker, can't help it. The worst thing I find is that the
display looks worse the minute you take down a pair to
wear. The mockingly indeterminately shaped gap is a
pain. I'm wearing my black Chelsea boots today, decent
jacket and grey strides, I'm going out to lunch. I know
there's this ugly gap between my brown Chelsea boots and
a pair of hiking Uggs. It'll be coffee and cigars before I'm
relaxed.


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