Daily Prompt: Flip Flop
Think of a topic or issue about which you’ve switched your opinion. Why the change?
Ok so I know I am really late on this, as the Daily Promt was on the 18th July, but hey, better late than never.
The reason it caught my eye in the first place, is because the thing about which I have switched my opinion, is infact the Flip Flop itself.
I’d never been much of a fan until I discovered a specific pair. They were a little more expensive than run of the mill Flip Flops that sold for a couple of quid in most retail outlets, and left you with blisters where the toe post nestled. Oh no! these were super flip flops, cushioned and most definitely built for comfort with a little flair thrown in for good measure. So good were they infact, that when a friend tried them on, she immediately went home and ordered herself a pair as well.
It was a match made in heaven, perhaps even love at first slip on. I thought we were destined to be together forever.
I’d love to tell you at this point, that my flip flops and I traveled all over the world together, seeing sights, eating at fancy restaurants and generally pounding a path across the universe, but, that would be a lie.
In fact the only trip my Flip Flops and I took, was on the living room carpet on the 6th July 2012. My souvenir, a ruptured patellar tendon.
I didn’t give it much consideration until later that evening when I was lying on a hospital gurney, leg in plaster from ankle to thigh and the Nurse said to me, “You know those are the worst things you could wear on your feet.”
So here’s the thing, I tripped because my toe caught at the bottom of my trousers, but, had I not have been wearing the flip flops then it may never have happened. It could also have nothing to do with the footwear at all, and they are just an innocent bystander, framed for a crime they did not commit, but her suggestion changed my relationship with my beloved flip flops forever.
There was none of the usual heartache that follows a breakup. The flip flops were relegated to the bin (they were done anyway) and I spent the next 6 months learning to walk properly again barefoot.
The other day I found a pair I had bought for going on holiday, which should have been the day after I tripped. I didn’t look at them with the same love and devotion I once had, infact I needed to get rid of them, so I took them to work and a colleague decided to buy them, even after I told her she did so at her own risk.
My love affair was well and truly over, never to be rekindled.
NB: After I had been back at work about a month or so I heard about a work colleague who tripped in a supermarket, breaking her leg in four places. Guess what she had on her feet! And no before you ask, it was not the colleague I sold mine to!
The Indecisive Eejit 
Buy the expensive ones that mold to your feet! They work great. Its the cheapies that kill ya.
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Ach no, I think my days of a flippin and a floppin are over….I’ve turned into a Converse bandit now lol Well at least until DM season rolls back around lol
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Check out my Strawberryquicksand FB page at this link https://www.facebook.com/Strawberryquicksand I posted a link to this blog along with a very special photo that I am sure you will no longer appreciate. lol
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LOL A flip flop wending machine, now I’ve seen it all. You’ll excuse me for partaking tho lol And ta for the plug :)
You think it’s worth making a FB page, I was considering it a while back but never got around to it?
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Well, i’m enjoying my facebook page. I’ve only had it for a week but it’s fun. I am trying to post a picture or blog link or whatever on it regularly to keep people interested. I’d love loads of people to “like” it but that will take time, I guess. You should give it a go,for sure! I will like it.lol
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p.s. go and comment on my flip flop vending machine photo on my FB page!!! lol
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I can’t until I get a page or join, I’m not a FBookie at the minute lol Leave it with me, I’ll figure it out!
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Hahah oh really? That is almost like saying you don’t have a mobile phone these days!!! If you need any help with FB, email me at yvette.rydman@bigpond.com and I can help you out. xo
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I had a personal one, but I deactivated because it , coupled with the blog, went weird, somehow my Xbox tag linked them, so I need to set up a new one to start afresh :)
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Oh okay! Sure thing. :) So you are not a total greenhorn r.e. FB…
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I’d have said that no I wasn’t…until I started to set up a page, what a feckin nightmare! All done now lol
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Haha you will have to blog about your FB page now.
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I already did yesterday :-)
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Ooo, that sounded painful! I’m not a fan of flip flops either. Awful shoes and definitely not for driving in.
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True. I’ve not worn any since that day and now actively warn others. It is quite possible that one day I will write my memoirs entitled “The Dangers of the Modern Flip Flop”. I do believe it would be a guaranteed flop lol
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Lol! Gotta look at the flip side and see the benefits of warning others! ;)
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