My big feet

If you have a name like Bob Ronkers you are pretty much destined to have one of the following:
1.) A house full of rowdy youngsters
2.) An auto dealership- particularly "certified pre-owned"
3.) A running store named after you
Atleast in my book...

And that is where I began my shoe fitting experience (My Bob Ronkers choose option 3). Apparently I have a wide, high arch foot but other than that am neutral and normal. When hearing "wide" I got a little disappointed, hearing wide made me think fat. Fat is not exactly what you want to hear when you are doing a whole lot to get back in shape (Remember, I'm in Bob Ronkers's store?). Great, I have a fat foot...now what?
I got some shoes that fit in the right places and don't push and shove. The down side, they are light colors- white and silver, and baby blue. Once you get into wide sizes, your options plumet. I hate light colors on shoes. Who came up with that idea? Let's make shoes (that will be used to run and walk on the dirty ground) white..... Oh, here's another idea Let's make the wide shoes white as to emphasize the massive fatty foot inside. Don't they realize black is slimming and hides dirt and grim? Guess not.
The girl across from me had pretty much the most basic size foot ever, a 7. She got to try on cool blue Nikes with a neon swoosh. My foot was jealous. heck why stop there? My whole body was jealous. My last pair of shoes looked great. They were dark grey and black Pumas with accents of coral and a light blue and black sole. Looking great is where it stopped. Most times after running my foot would be cut up and bleeding between the toes. The toenail of my third toe cut into my second toe. I solved this by keeping my nails short. Never did it occur to me that my toes were too cramped because of my foot obesity. Never.
Function over form this time. I bought the old woman shoe. (I told my mom what shoes I bought and her comment was, "That's the brand grandma likes...." Just in case I wasn't already displeased aesthetically). I did the usual 2 mile loop tonight in the new shoes- no bloody toes. And that might make grandma shoes be okay with me. Atleast until there is another option.