16 Apr

How to Embarrass Your Kids in Three Easy Steps

Author: Elizabeth

Step One: While getting ready to go to Target, decide that since it’s a warm, sunny day, you’ll wear slip-on shoes with no socks. NEW slip-on shoes.

Step Two: Realize after twenty minutes of walking around at Target that the backs of the slip-on shoes are sliding up and down against your bare heels and raising painful blisters on both of them. Decide to shuffle over to the shoe department and buy the first pair of comfortable shoes you can find.

Step Three:
Find the PERFECT pair of Champion slides, with footbeds filled with some kind of gel and covered with satiny fabric, so that each step you take feels like having pillows strapped to your feet. Take off the evil slip-on blistermakers and put on the slides. Which are attached to each other with a piece of white elastic string. Which you can’t take off because you don’t have scissors in your purse.

Step Three Continued: So you have to WALK THROUGH THE STORE with your shoes ATTACHED. Because there is no way you are putting the evil shoes of evil back on, and the slides are just so dang comfortable, and the elastic is long enough that you can walk normally. Except that Target employees keep walking by you and, well, LOOKING AT YOUR FEET.

And yet when I got to the register and took the slides off so the cashier could scan them, then asked if she had scissors in her drawer so I could cut the elastic, she didn’t even blink.

And also, these? Are the MOST COMFORTABLE SLIDES EVER.
champion-slides
And these?

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21 Responses to “How to Embarrass Your Kids in Three Easy Steps”

  1. Anna
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    Oh, your poor kids! :D

    and blistered heels…

  2. Great post. lol.
    You’ll really be the “target” of Target.
    I also like the slides you featured, looks comfy.

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  3. Karen says:

    OMG! That sounds hilarious!

  4. This is funny, but unfortunately true :)

  5. tanyetta
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    says:

    shoe pain is the worst! i would have done the same thing ;)

  6. Zaslony says:

    That’s why I always carry a small pocket knife. At least I’d be able to cut it before wearing it. You’re buying it anyway so there’s no harm done.

  7. blueyes says:

    LOL Yep, sounds about right. Something I might do to except I would have never bought anything like that considering it just fit my style of said fashion lmao

  8. OMG, you ARE embarrassing! But smart, so very very smart. I’ve been there, and I would’ve done the exact same thing!

  9. Nellie says:

    I have done the same thing. It seems that when I had to do the embarrassing moments, the strings were short and I could only take baby steps.

    I once embarrassed my teen girls so bad they left the store.

  10. JMom
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    lol!! I have both those shoes :) but I do love those sliders and should throw the slip ons away. I probably would have walked around barefoot until suitable replacement was found.

    Embarassing your teens is actually fun. It’s a highlight of my day whenever I get to do it successfully. :D

  11. Sarah says:

    Moving around in shoes that give you blisters is a pain! (pun intended).. Funny story, I bet your kids didn’t think it was that funny. I have never heard of those shoes referred to as slides before, I just call them flip-flops.

  12. corrin
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    That’s hysterical!

  13. Michelle says:

    LOL! The slides look really comfortable! My daughter is use to embarrassment when being out in the stores with me. Last week in Walmart Aiden was getting fussy so I sang him the Barney theme song as loud as I could to calm him. Kylie looked like she was about to faint from embarrassment.

  14. Angela says:

    Even with those low no-show socks on, I still get blisters. Ugh, shoes!

  15. Chrystal K. says:

    Omg that is funny. It’s funny how life takes us form being the embarrassed to being the embarrassers lol.

  16. Kelly says:

    I think that’s an old polish joke isn’t it? How does a polock steal shoes? When you shuffle like your shoes are tied together.

  17. LOL! I have done the same thing, although I’m fairly sure it was in pre-kid years. Must add that to the list of things to do to mortify them in public when they’re older.

  18. wa says:

    LOL–because I did THE EXACT SAME THING last year. At Target. Good to know I won’t be in the loony bin alone. :)

  19. Still not as bad as crocs, with or without socks :)

  20. LOooooL… this is pretty hilarious! I hate blisters!

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