Irreverent question of the month October 2006
October 11th, 2006A little background to start this off:
Up until maybe 2 years ago, the Irreverent Questions were a regular thing. They were weekly for a while, then I had to scale back to monthly. At some point I stopped doing it, in part because I lost interest, in part because I just wasn’t coming up with them as often as I wanted, but I think it’s time to get back into it.
(This one’s for the ladies:)
If you were walking down the street in 3" heels and one of them broke would you take both shoes off and go barefoot or break the heel off the other shoe and keep wearing them?
Keep in mind that there may be other answers than the two proposed. Having asked this to 4 women so far, the answers I received were:
Barefoot. Why?
Break off the other heel, of course. You never know what’s going to be on the street - glass, crud, etc.
I would go to the nearest shoe repair place and get it fixed. Why ruin a perfectly good pair of shoes?
Barefoot. Unless there was nasty crap on the street, in which case I would take a cab. Why ruin the other shoe?
There are certainly other answers to the question. I’m always interested to see what people come up with, but there’s no ulterior motive to these questions. The Why that I was asked was because someone was reading too much into the question, thinking that it was some kind of email meme thing that would give me insight into our friendship based on the question, but, then I hadn’t prefaced the question with "Irreverent question of the month".
Previous months’ questions included (but by no means were limited to):
What’s one song that you LOVE, but hate to admit that you even like? (Answers to this question included Puff the Magic Dragon, Spirit in the Sky, songs by Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond and numerous country songs)
If you could gain a superpower, but couldn’t choose it, and had to drink an 8oz glass of water from the Hudson River (downstream from the GE plant), would you drink the water?
If you could have ANY non-standard superpower that you make up, what would it be (no superhero powers like flight, superspeed, mega-strength, you have to use your imagination)?
You have been warned. Upcoming months will have a new question that has absolutely no relation to anything else. There are no hidden meanings, no ulterior motives, no rewards or punishments for answering or not answering the question - and most months will not be gender-specific.
Well….
How expensive are the shoes? If they were just a blah pair of payless pumps then fuck it, go barefoot.
2) Where is my destination? Work? How close am I to a shoe repair shop or a chinese store of willy nillyness where I can buy a cute pair of sandals. Unless I’m wearing hose, then I’m screwed. Home? Whatev… I can jump in the shower when I get home and keep a meticulous eye down on the path I’m taking
3.) How far am I away from my destination. I certainly wouldn’t walk from your old apt over on Morton to work at UCAWD or vice versa barefoot. Totally would ruin my overpriced pedi. But Lets say I’m walking from your old place to hmmmmm Lincoln Park Pool, then.. well no I just wouldnt do that there too much grass too much potential for poo and broken glass. But I would go barefoot from UCAWD to like maybe state street
Comment by Liz � October 12, 2006 @ 16:35 pm
“If you could gain a superpower, but couldn’t choose it, and had to drink an 8oz glass of water from the Hudson River (downstream from the GE plant), would you drink the water?”
yes, I would. I would just have an ambulance standing by!
“What’s one song that you LOVE, but hate to admit that you even like?”
stuntin like my daddy
“If you could have ANY non-standard superpower that you make up, what would it be”
the ability to soothe and calm babies and children- with a smile.
shoes- i wouldn’t be caught dead in heals. i would go barefoot rather than wear heals. break it off? I can’t even open a jar by myself! No way I would be tough enough. If I had to, I would probably just hobble.
Comment by dawn marie � October 13, 2006 @ 1:28 am
Well, I think first I would how I got so damn drunk to start walking down the street in high heels. Then whichever of my friends was closest I would probably blame for me being drunk and in womens shoes, and then take thier shoes. But of course, where the F*CK did someone find size 13 mens high heels. But at the end of the day I would probably just keep walking 1 up 1 down.
Comment by Ed � October 16, 2006 @ 10:38 am
I actually know of several places where you can find high heels in a men’s size 13…
Comment by FyreGoddess � October 16, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
If I break one heel I just keep wearing the other one. If I’m on the way to work and there are no shoe repair shops open to drop it off to be fixed, if it can be fixed, I will go in to work wearing the single high heel. I will at lunch find the nearest shoe repair shop and just drop the shoe off and take off work a half hour early to pick it up, uinless the shoe repair station is open late, like in a mall to 9pm, then I’ll probably just pick it up after work, but I will not go completely in barefeet or just stockings.
But that’s me, a little crazy at times. LOL
As for super powers, don’t want them, don’t need them, if like most mortals, you’ll just end up abusing them, so I’d rather not have any at all. But thanks anyway.
Comment by Ms. Simone Darterysmyte � August 18, 2007 @ 16:49 pm