Cowboy Boots

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for just a random blog because, really, if this blog has a chance of survival in the blog-o-sphere, well, it's gotta go BEYOND THE TOP FIVE!!!  So, Monday I will get back to my list.  Today.  Cowboy boots.

So, I work at a place that occasionally involves me thinking to myself, 'Man, I really need a pair of cowboy boots.'  So much so, that today, I woke up and was like, TODAY IS THE DAY!  So, I get up, shower, get dressed and off I go on a hunt for a pair of cowboy boots. 

When I set out on my mission, I was hoping to spend, you know, $5 because I am cheap and poor, but was willing to go as high as $30 since I figured I was going to find $5 cowboy boots NO WHERE.... Sad, but true.  So I start my journey in Target, wander to another local store, then a thrift store-none of which contained the cowboy boots I so desired.  At this point, after an hour and half of running around town, I was frustrated.  I had been to one store that lovely boots, beautiful, in fact, only to discover they were $83 + tax (PA friends, they charge tax on shoes, clothes AND food in Louisiana.... yea, take that in.)  So I immediately said, no way and continued my journey.

I stop a couple more places and finally get to a place that sells just shoes.  I walk the aisles and there they are.  Like a beacon of light- cowboy boots.  Then, I see the first price tag.... $29.99.  I nearly cried with delight.  So, I scan the wall, picking up the boots and gently cradling them trying to form a connection with each boot.  I decided that, nay! The $29.99 boot was not good as it had little metallic stars on it... ew.  So I move on to another pair and another until I look at a pair of boots that were $79.99. 

I tried them on.   TRIED THEM ON!  I even thought to myself, 'y'know, I should do this.  Just buy this $80 pair of boots because they are awesome.'  An hour prior to this experience, I had said to myself, $83 for a pair of boots is insane and there I was, with $80 boots on, considering how this decision could be the best decision of my life. 

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I finally talked myself out of the boots, after some convincing and went with a more fiscally responsible $49.99 pair of cowboy boots that are just divine.  See picture proof.

Anyway, what this whole ridiculous entry is ultimately about is best summed up by the following meme.

Next entry on Monday.  I'll continue my top five then.