I have always loved comfortable shoes. However, I have not always been comfortable with the fact that I prefer comfortable shoes. After all, can you be a real woman in comfortable shoes? Are comfortable shoes not the preserve of those with hairy armpits (current body hair status undisclosed) or those of a different sexual persuasion (views undisclosed).
But in my comfortable middle years with uncomfortable middle-year knees I am comfortable with comfortable shoes. And I was glad of my comfortable shoes yesterday when, due to middle-years forgetfulness, I arrived at the station without my car keys and had a much-extended journey home with 2 extra train rides and a walk from the station through rocky country footpaths. I have observed many female commuters in uncomfortable shoes and wonder whether they would have managed the walk home with such ease. But then I remember they are probably not in their middle years and would not have forgotten their keys!
