i always had premier jordans and nikes in my youths, but one time i guess we fell on hard times and my dad (nonmaterialistic and frugal) took me shoe shopping instead of my mom when my feet kept growing.
pops took me straight to a cheap store called "shoeworld"

i knew i was dead on arrival.
ended up getting a knockoff pair of these made by
SPALDING, so you can only imagine how ugly they were. it didnt help that i was oh soooo little and skinny, yet my feet were kinda big. the shoes were almost as big as me and felt like i had on cinder blocks..
only pair of "jeepers" i ever had in my life. i remember this one CAC boy called me out on it

because he said i used to make note of other peoples shoes but now to paraphrase in a more clever way "the shoe was on the other foot"
i didn't even want to fight him because the ether was sooo true. in 5th grade i was the man homie, but now my 6th grade shoe game was
fortunately after that bad year, shoe game been ..
