An aggrieved citizen complains a repaving project on Bartlett Street has left residents in an untenable position: Just stay inside until it's done or risk getting gunk all over their shoes:
Can the city send a shoe shine/cleaning man to fix everyone's shoes damaged by the repaving project?
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If your biggest complaint in
By Joe
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:24pm
If your biggest complaint in life is fresh tar on the bottom of your cheap shoes, I'm sure there are multiple families who just lost everything they owned in that fire last week, that will gladly trade places with you...
YEAH
By erik g
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:33pm
HE SHOULD JUST SHUT UP THERE ARE CATS IN CHINA THAT DOESNT EVEN HAVE KIDNEYS
Asking for free shoe cleaning
By anon
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 6:11pm
Asking for free shoe cleaning from public services because of roadwork isn't really a reasonable response.
Your solution would be...
By lbb
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 8:50am
Your solution would be for residents to simply levitate over the crap?
I wouldn't call Cole Haan
By CCD
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 10:41am
I wouldn't call Cole Haan shoes cheap... they're not your "PayLess" variety.
Acetone
By anon
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:26pm
Acetone
Do we have to resort to personal attacks?
By Gary C
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:32pm
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Cole Haan?
By me
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:29pm
I thought those were thrown away after each use.
Do what the women do
By anon
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:41pm
Walk around in sneakers or flip flops so your nice shoes don't get damaged.
Tar Happens
By whyaduck
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:55pm
n/t
I'll spot you the gunked-up shoes...
By Lecil
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 4:20pm
...and raise you a pothole induced sprained ankle.
I win!
Oh yeah
By Mia123
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 12:02pm
Same. Happened last winter on the B-line. Turned to get on train and went right down because of a hole on the platform. The driver (who had offered to call an ambulance) helped me hobble on and got me a seat where I sort of cried quietly and pathetically until I got to my stop and hopped home. First time I ever twisted my ankle! Thanks, City of Boston. To their credit, they filled it in.
The city should just dispatch
By Refugee
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 4:46pm
The city should just dispatch a shoe shine/cleaning man to this man's house to wash his feet pope style.
Poor wee scone
By rsybuchanan
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 5:21pm
It must be awful to have to contend with this when one's valet is away on holiday.
Look on the bright side
By Dave
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 5:24pm
You weren't hit by a Duck Boat.
There's a simple solution here. When you
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 5:52pm
encounter a dodgy surface on the street ahead, simply take off your shoes and socks and let your bare feet endure the brunt of it. Heaven forfend you get something on the soles of your shoes, after all.
"Dear Cole Haan: I am returning my Cole Haan Grandios model shoes. I had no idea they would make the rest of me grandiose."
My main question is
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 6:36pm
Why wasn't he walking on the concrete sidewalk?
At a wild guess
By lbb
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 8:51am
Because he has to cross the street and there's no Pedestrian Flyway(tm)?
Since when does a shoe shine man...
By anon
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 7:30pm
...clean the BOTTOM of shoes?
What about those slice marks???
By XenaKat
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 9:54pm
Gunk on the bottoms of shoes are going to happen. There's no avoiding it, and that's why people wear shoes instead of walking around barefoot. If that's the basis of the complaint, then this guy needs to put on his big-boy panties and deal with it.
But what's jumping out at me are the two huge slices, one across each heel. Are those supposed to be there, or is that the damage that this guy is complaining about?
Nobody in my household wears men's dress shoes so I don't know if that's a design feature or something that happened when he walked hrough the construction. If those slices are damages from walking through/around the construction area, he does have a case, since re-heeling shoes isn't as easy or cheap as it used to be years ago, when you could find a cobbler on every block.
I don't know the rationale for providing them
By roadman
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 3:04pm
but those large "slices" across the heels are indeed a feature of certain brands of men's dress shoes.
It's more concerning that he
By JPHipster
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 10:49am
It's more concerning that he has his shoes in the wrong feet
Perhaps the City should set up
By roadman
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 3:04pm
a shoe intensifier ray in Austin Square and aim it at the townies on Bunker Hill.
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