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Another one for the life milestones file: first time I got a pair of shoes re-soled.
(First time I had a pair of shoes that was worth getting re-soled, really. Most of my life has been spent in shoes that could be bought new for the price of getting them re-soled, and by the time the soles were an issue the rest of the shoe wasn't worth keeping either.)
To hear the shoe repairer tell it, it turned into a small epic: first they'd run out of the material, and had to wait for it to come in, then it turned out that this pair of shoes was very solidly constructed - which is a good thing, of course, but meant they ended up having to order in new heavy-duty tools as well, because the standard ones weren't making a dent.
I figure I'll give them a week to recover before I mention the other pair of shoes (different colour, but same make and model) that also need re-soling...
(First time I had a pair of shoes that was worth getting re-soled, really. Most of my life has been spent in shoes that could be bought new for the price of getting them re-soled, and by the time the soles were an issue the rest of the shoe wasn't worth keeping either.)
To hear the shoe repairer tell it, it turned into a small epic: first they'd run out of the material, and had to wait for it to come in, then it turned out that this pair of shoes was very solidly constructed - which is a good thing, of course, but meant they ended up having to order in new heavy-duty tools as well, because the standard ones weren't making a dent.
I figure I'll give them a week to recover before I mention the other pair of shoes (different colour, but same make and model) that also need re-soling...