When the shoe gods smile

Ahhh...  Today turned out to be a great shoe day.  Last night I had a minor crisis on my hands...  Well, more so on my feet...  I thought I lost one of my favorite flip flops.  Yes friends, a tragedy in the making.  I was convinced it fell out of the truck in Podunk (Kiel, WI for those who are familiar) and was lost for all eternity... I could flip but no longer flop...  So, like a good little Boy Scout, I broke out the back-up pair and resigned myself to breaking in a new favorite pair of flip flops.  

Of course, this also meant a trip to Kohl's to try to find a back up pair to the back up pair...  When you find the perfect flip, you just can't risk not finding them again cuz at some point they will neither flip nor flop and need replacing.  A bit of hunting lead me to the Nike flip flop display and I was horrified to discover no prefect brown leather flips left on the shelf.  Not wanting to believe it, I had to search the clearance rack cuz you just never know, right?  But still, no luck.  Unwilling to give up without a fight I went back to the Nike section and searched high and low...  Just as I was about to abandon all hope, there it was...  The beautiful box labeled brown leather thong and praise the shoe gods, that lone pair of flops was... Yes... You guessed it... MY SIZE!!!! OH HAPPY DAY! There is joy in Mudville tonight!  So off to the checkouts I went with my prize, parted happily with my $20 thinking all was again right with the world.  A back up pair of flips is mine. and the day could get no better.

But wait... It COULD get better.  Because as I was making dinner, Rich was unloading the reenacting stuff out of the truck and what to my wondering eyes should appear but my beloved flop! Flip and Flop have been reunited, the back up pair returned to the shelf with their companion back ups and shoe nirvana is mine!