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Curb Your En’shoe’siasm
The White Sneaker: I have An Obsession with Shoes, that I mostly keep to myself
I love shoes. In most human interactions, I have to Curb my En’shoe’siasm haha! I thought of that on the toilet. This girl I know Destiny, she used to be a sex worker and make her monthly rent in an hour. It’s okay if I talk about it here because she talks about it on stage all the time. But the thing I notice more about her is how she likes to wear beige, on her feet.
When I first met her back in 2020, when I started hosting an outdoor open mic in the park, she always wore dirty lavender Fila Disruptors, the most common style of Fila shoe in the modern age. I had bought myself the exact same pair in the same color as a reward in 2019, when I won a story telling contest and got $300 in cash. I didn’t have a lot of money but I was staying with my sister and didn’t have to pay rent so I rewarded myself with the shoes. They were $70. I still have them and they are in pretty amazing condition. They are slightly too small and give my feet a headache but they look pretty in my closet.
