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Citizen complaint of the day: Charlestown needs a shoe-shine guy, stat
By adamg on Mon, 07/25/2016 - 3:03pm
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
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
HE SHOULD JUST SHUT UP THERE ARE CATS IN CHINA THAT DOESNT EVEN HAVE KIDNEYS
Asking for free shoe cleaning
Asking for free shoe cleaning from public services because of roadwork isn't really a reasonable response.
Your solution would be...
Your solution would be for residents to simply levitate over the crap?
I wouldn't call Cole Haan
I wouldn't call Cole Haan shoes cheap... they're not your "PayLess" variety.
Acetone
Acetone
Do we have to resort to personal attacks?
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Cole Haan?
I thought those were thrown away after each use.
Do what the women do
Walk around in sneakers or flip flops so your nice shoes don't get damaged.
Tar Happens
n/t
I'll spot you the gunked-up shoes...
...and raise you a pothole induced sprained ankle.
I win!
Oh yeah
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
The city should just dispatch a shoe shine/cleaning man to this man's house to wash his feet pope style.
Poor wee scone
It must be awful to have to contend with this when one's valet is away on holiday.
Look on the bright side
You weren't hit by a Duck Boat.
There's a simple solution here. When you
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
Why wasn't he walking on the concrete sidewalk?
At a wild guess
Because he has to cross the street and there's no Pedestrian Flyway(tm)?
Since when does a shoe shine man...
...clean the BOTTOM of shoes?
What about those slice marks???
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
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
It's more concerning that he has his shoes in the wrong feet
Perhaps the City should set up
a shoe intensifier ray in Austin Square and aim it at the townies on Bunker Hill.