OK, so here is how the shoes are doing. ('cause I know you all care.

On Thursday night. 1 day before I officially owned the shoes for four weeks, they fell apart again! So I took them back to the store and bought a pair of Nikes from a different store. The manager wasn't in so they told me to come back today (saturday) to see what could be done for me.

Today I went into the store and they told me I could get 1000NT towards a new pair of shoes. So I now also own a new pair of reebok sneakers.

Because of all this talk of shoes I figured it would be intresting to list the amount of shoes I have gone through in the past 12 months.

Shoes Brought To Taiwan:
1. slip-on sneakers (new)
2. Lace up sneakers (new)
3. Hiking shoes (5 years old)
4. Teva Sandals (6.5 years old)
5. Black dress shoes (12 years old)

Slip-ons and lace ups fell apart. Hiking shoes were uselss and old, tevas were falling apart. So they were replaced with . . .

6. Merril walking shoes
7. teva Hiking boots
8. New teva sandals
9. A pair of slip-on sandals for kicking around

The new merrils were shredded when my foot hit a piece of metal as I was driving my scooter. They were replaced with . . .

10. White Nike Sneakers

These are holding up good. I also brought another pair of hiking boots to finish off their life in taiwan. So I brought them back from canada, and . . . because The dress shoes were so old and bad looking they were replaced with . . .

11. stylish black pegabo slip on dress shoes
12. brown hiking boots from mec

The Nikes developed a funk that was overpowering so they were replaced with . . .

13. Black adidas sneakers

Which as you know were replaced with

14. Black adidas sneakers

Which were replaced with

15. WHite nike sneakers
16. Blue reebok sneakers

And I recently bought . . .

17. A pair of running shoes

So all told I have purchased/gone through 17 pairs of shoes in just over 12 months.