Science May Force Women into Flats - Heel No!!!

To any reader out there, just take a wild guess as to how many different pairs of shoes the significant woman in your life currently owns. My guess is that your guess is woefully low. In my case, I estimated that my wife would have racked shoes in the range of 18-22 pairs.  Not so.

After a rigorous hand count, it turned out that she has more than 45+ pairs of footwear – three of which are still in boxes with the respective receipts and have never been worn.

However, being the enlightened male that I am – I am not shocked and I’ll not curse Zappos.com (even though they’re a major contributor to this bi-pedal pandemic).

In fact, I gained keen perspective that I’d like to share from a senior female executive I used to work with as to the reasons why most women have this inherent need for bootery hoarding.

These were her three reasons why women are compelled to pump up their cobbler cache with pumps, platforms, peddle-pushers and such.

Quick Run Tonight...in the Rain...(yuck)

Nothing quite like the feeling of running in a downpour, with the equivalent of a liter or so of water sloshing around in your sneakers. That's the worst part. It takes a full day for your footwear to dry out thoroughly.

I should have just dumped a bottle of Gatorade down each leg.

So does anybody have any suggestions as to how to dry out wet sneakers?  I don't want to throw them in the dryer because the heat can damage, warp or melt portions of the composite sole of my ASICS running shoe.

Sincerely,
Desparately Seeking Dry Sneakers