Shoe-Mate

Shopping for shoes can certainly be a chaotic experience when clearance time rolls around. I went to Nordstrom Rack to find some comfy city shoes. You see I need a heel, something black, comfy, and stylish a combination that is rare in this day and age. This is where the madness ensues.

At Nordstrom Rack they have a shoe-mate policy. You browse the chaotic shelves of shoes each with a bright color sticker coordinating to a percentage off. (Why people don't just pull the pink 50% off and add them to their finds, I'll never know. Sometimes I think I was born to be a thief) All the shoes have been thrown here and there with no order. I realize the system early on: that us customers pick up the lonely shoe and take it to the Shoe-Mate counter to find it's pair.

I looked and looked. Diesel 7.5 too small, Kenneth Cole black heel 8.5W too big, too wide, XOXO shorter black back-less pump 8.5 too big but maybe. . . . I check the Shoe-Mate counter and they have the match. I try it on and it becomes certain I need the 8. Sheila at the counter hands me an 8 and says "The mate is somewhere on the floor, you just have to find it."

Well if that isn't the predicament of my life I don't know what is!

A whole half hour must have gone by with me on my hands and knees holding that dumb shoe out in search of its mate. I found nothing. The good news is I keep my forty bucks & some change, the bad news I still have no perfect city shoe. The search continues (both for the shoe and the mate).