Shoes

Shopping should be an Olympic event. Women from all over the world could participate in different shopping events...Finding the Best Bargain, Speed and Acuracy, Resistance - the list continues...

My friend and I discovered that we would have been entered into two different shopping events.

I would enter and probably place in the Speed and Accuracy category. My philosophy is - if you see what you want, get it now because chances are you won't be back. So I easily found the things I wanted - quickly with no fuss. Chocolate bars at a number of places. Those little metal Eiffel Towers that I adore. A scarf, d'accord. Foie gras. Truffles. Herbs de Provence. Chevre and baguette. Nothing big. Just little things that make me happy.

My friend would enter and WIN in the Resistance category. She resisted most things. It was quite marvelous to watch. She would look at a biggger Eiffel Tower and put her hand to her forehead and say something like, "I think I'm just in the moment," and then move on. Jewelry. Clothes. Purses. She just moved on. She did get a lovely antique glass container, which will look lovely on her dresser. A few metal Eiffle Towers the last night near the Trocadero. Looking, looking, looking - but no buying. I began to despair.

But then, as I was relaxing in my room the last hour of the last day in Paris, the phone rang. My friend could not stand it anymore. She was going to get shoes.

She bought six pairs of shoes in the last hour of the last day in Paris.

Six.

I just love that story!!!

And God Bless her, she says every single pair fits. Vive la France!