While Michael was in university, at the end of the semester he was often drafted into helping his female course mates or his male course mates' girl friends to move their belongings from one hostel to another.
After a while, he realized most girls are compulsive buyers of shoes and footwear. According to his statistics, most girls possess at least 20 pairs of foot wear. I felt incredulous listening to that! Perhaps I am the abnormal one: I used to own 1 pair of slippers, 1 pair of sport shoes, 1 pair of pumps and one pair of sandles in college. Believe it or not, I still do today. As I plied him with questions, we soon saw that the purchases were random and not necessarily logical. I would expect one girl to purchase formal shoes in white, black and beige color. Perhaps she also have slippers in completely different colors to match clothes in her wardrobe. One pair of hiking boots, two pairs of jogging shoes if she is a serious jogger considering our rainy weather. Maybe a few pairs of fancy high heels for dating? Michael said that those who went overboard buying slippers of all descriptions might not own a single pair of formal shoes, hence resorted to borrowing one pair the night prior to a presentation. Those who collect stilettoes often do not have a pair of sensible walking shoes to go to the waterfall for a picnic.
As I am typing these facts down, I recall my Elizabeth's mentor in church, a young lady in her twenties, owns forty seven pairs of foot wear. That is not the final count, she is still purchasing. Well, she is earning good money and is still living with her parents. I suppose it is not a crime to love and collect shoes. But for students who are renting rooms far away from home, it would be wiser to limit the amount of personal effects. Yet there are always admirers around who would act as "sherpas" on moving days for a treat of drinks.
I am glad that my son's eyes are opened at this young age. If he does not want to be hitched to a girl who habitually spends thirty percent of her monthly income in some shoe shops, he has better be alert and watchful while he is getting to know her. More than monetary, in order to hunt for that illusive pair of dream shoes, such ladies may spend all Saturday and Sunday afternoons trying on hundreds of pairs of shoes. Their husbands may just be appointed babysitters for all their day offs.
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