Two Left Feet?!?!?

I believe that after this weekend I should rename my blog from "Life's Twist & Turns" to "You Are Not Going To Believe This". Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the saying when you can not dance is that you have two left feet. In an effort to make my life a little more comfortable I decided that I was going to buy myself a new pair of sneakers. I wanted to go with something different than I am used to buying but who am I kidding. I am 36 years old, I am not getting any younger and let's face it...I am going for comfort and the ones that I normally wear are comfortable. There is no breaking in period, I can put them on and away I go...no problem.

On Sunday this was no different. I walked into Sears, looked at the shoes and was pleasantly surprised to see that the shoes that I normally wear had been improved and were on sale. Woohoo! My usual $45 sneakers were on sale for $29. The bonus feature on these were the fact that I was getting a newer version with a little more comfort than I am used to. I was living the high life, I tried one of them on and marched my butt to the cash register to pay and get the heck out of there before I decided to buy anything else. Some would say that I have a major shoe obsession.

I awoke this morning, sprang out of bed in preparation for my first day with my new shoes. I rushed to take all of the paper that is normally stuck clear up in the toes beyond where most normal sized fingers are not able to reach out and fixed the laces so that I could tie them without having one lace longer than the other (another pet peeve of mine...noticing a trend here?). I hurried to get dressed and ran out into the kitchen to put on my shoes when I noticed something very, very wrong. I had two right shoes. Two right shoes? Somewhere in this horrible metropolis of Erie, someone has two left shoes and did not notice.
After the Hubby's doctor appointment today, we went to the mall to exchange the shoes. Here is how the conversation with the cashier went.

Me: I bought these shoes yesterday and I realized this morning that I have two right shoes.

Cashier: Let me get someone from shoes to help you.
**Shoe cashier comes over and asks me what the problem is, so I go through the issue at hand again.

Shoe Cashier: Let me check to see if I can find the left shoes for you. Do these fit?

Me: Oh they fit, I just can not wear two shoes on the same foot at the same time.

Shoe Cashier: Is there anything else wrong with them?

Me: Is that not enough?

Shoe Cashier: Would you like to return them or would you like us to order you a left shoe?

Me: Are you serious?

Shoe Cashier: Yes, if you want you could hold onto these and if they are available online we could order you another pair.

Me: But what would I do with the two right shoes?

Shoe Cashier: You could return them once you got the ones from online.

Me: What would I do with two right shoes in the meantime?

Shoe Cashier: You could return them and we will refund your money.

Me: Why don't I just return these ones, you give me my money back, and I get a different pair of shoes.

Shoe Cashier: We can do that, do you have your receipt?

What she does next absolutely baffled me. She makes out a slip, sticks it into the register and prints something on it, and then gives me my refund. I look down at the slip that she printed out on the register and it said and I quote.

"Clearance $9.99-Reason: Two right shoes"

Yep that is correct, they are going to try to sell these shoes again as two right shoes. Unfreaking believable!!I sure hope the person who has two left shoes is going to see this. Hopefully they will take advantage of the great deal that Sears is offering on two right shoes. I on the other hand am taking advantage of trying a new shoe and yes, I made sure that this box contained both a left and a right shoe which were not only the same style but the same size.

I am going to enlist the help of a hidden video camera to catch the not so "common" sense that people have these days. Perhaps with the help of some television producers I may be onto something here.

Happy Monday!!!