http://norman.walsh.name/2006/10/06/shoes 9 95 2006-10-06T05:18:12-07:00 $Date: 2006-10-06 17:20:53 -0400 (Fri, 06 Oct 2006) $ Norman Walsh 2006 Norman Walsh I'm not sure what. Not walking, apparently. I'm not sure that this is really an essay worth writing, but I think it's a little bit amusing, like the information essay, so I am. Writing it, I mean. For this road trip, I decided to travel light: a single carry on and one pair of shoes, a pair of comfortable, casual, brown suede shoes. I've worn them many times, but not recently. I noticed a slight…stickiness under foot on the first leg of my journey. I attributed this to something under the seat in front of me, spilled soda, perhaps. It wasn't until I was walking through the terminal in San Francisco that the actual culprit became evident: the stickiness wasn't on the soles of my shoes, it was the soles of my shoes, disintigrating further with every step. They lasted a week, but barely. Even now I can feel the last remnants of the soles clinging stickily to the carpet on this 737. I have no explanation. They've been sitting quietly in my closet for a year or two. That closet is not, to the best of my knowledge, a source of toxic rubber solvents. Perhaps my knowledge isn't very good. Perhaps I should check the rest of my shoes when I get home.