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⌈ Secret Post #4019 ⌋

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Re: Should I buy a zoo pass or new boots?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--I wish I could get away with slippers, but they're not an option because of our dress code, and we have to help the public a lot away from our desks, so changing from shoes to slippers and back won't work either.

I've never found cheap boots or shoes that weren't torture devices; I mostly buy midrange leather sandals from Clarks and similar brands on sale to avoid limping and blood blisters, and wear them until they disintegrate. I wish I could get away with thick wooly socks with sandals, but I think that might be pushing it, dress code wise.

I tried getting my midrange Bear Paw boots fixed once, but apparently it would be cheaper to buy a new pair, and they retailed for $120ish and I paid half that. I'm really, really hard on my shoes since I walk a lot. My Bear Paw boots had clunky 4 inch heels with heavy duty tread, and not only did I walk the tread off, I walked half the heels off. That's my benchmark for replacing shoes--if something snaps, or if I walk the heels down more than an inch or until I can see inside the heels if they're hollow. Breaking in new shoes tends to break me--and my skin--so I avoid it as long as possible.

My boss has a spece heater in her office, which works because it's a small room and the AC vent in there doesn't pull air from the frigid depths of interstellar space like the one behind our front desk, which faces our huge, high ceilinged lobby and opens out onto the rest of the building. The heating vents are in the public area, but the AC vents for the public area are directly behind the front staff desk and blow frigid air directly down on my workstation.

Apparently a former employee once taped cardboard over the AC vents with the boss's blessing, but the higher ups made her stop. Space heaters have also been tried, but without something to trap the hot air under the desk, it's like lighting a tea candle in an arctic windstorm. One of my coworkers has been making noise about contacting OSHA.

I don't get paid for another week, if no expensive emergencies spring up between now and then, I'll decide then. If I do buy the boots, I can wait two weeks and get the zoo pass, or vice versa. At least I could wear the boots to walk at the zoo, unlike, say, Uggs, which are just as expensive while being useless for walking any place more demanding than from the bedroom to the bathroom.