Magic Shoes

[cjsmith]

HAHAHAHA I bought shoooooooes! I found exactly two web sites willing to sell these magical things to random laymen.

I even got them in extra-small, which means it'll take a lot longer to rip out the stitching around the ankle. (On my current size S, when I try to pull the ankle cross-strap snug enough that I won't wobble, I pull the soft body of the shoe inward away from the rigid heel cup.) If I'm lucky the pivot point on an XS is as good for me as what I've been wearing. Dare I hope it will be better?

I will post pics if I get around to decorating them like I did the others. :-)

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

As it happens, I agree with you! And even without outright fraud there's immense amounts of fighting just to get things done. We have armies of people dedicated to insurance paperwork and battles, on all sides of the "war": employers' HR departments, doctors' offices, and those enormous insurance buildings all full of people. (There's a reason I used to get deep discounts as an uninsured patient. That WAS the fair price, because I didn't need a single paperwork warrior.) Not only does somebody have to pay for all these people, but the waste of human potential is just criminal. How many diseases could we cure if these multitudes were doing something useful instead of squabbling?

The shoes were $150. You can add that to the next revision of your rant if you like. :-)