SLIPPERS

image by christine renney

I ordered myself a new pair of slippers and now they have arrived they are too small.  I take a size nine and these slippers, the ones I ordered, are a size eight to nine.  I don’t know how that works, how a pair of slippers or shoes that are a size eight to nine can fit someone who is a size eight and also someone who is a size eight and a half and also someone like me who is a size nine. 

I suppose slippers are of the softer shoe variety and if I wear them for a few days they may stretch, although they are very tight and painful.  They pinch my toes and, when I walk, they rub and chafe the back of my heel.  I suspect that these slippers, the ones that I ordered, are in fact a size eight and a half and if I was someone who took a size eight, they would be too big but I suppose I could then purchase some in-soles to pad them out.  But you know what?  I think I’ll just send them back.