Not Good Spider Stompers! (5-minute freewrite Day 309 prompt: Describe your shoes)

At the moment I am not wearing shoes, because it has been a warm day. But I will describe the ones I wore when I took my Grandpuppy for a walk earlier. They are navy blue Skechers slip-ons. I've had them for 2 or 3 years now, and they are beginning to look a bit worn, especially on the inside. I've been wondering whether I can wash them by hand, and I plan to give it a try. The insides were pink, but they are now a very dirty pink! The soles have bumps on them, and I assume that is supposed to make it more comfortable to walk in them but it also makes it very difficult to squish spiders.

I handled a second pair of my shoes today, although I did not put them on. They are Keens casual shoes, brown in color. I think I bought them just last year, but they have seen a great deal of use. It occurred to me I ought to polish them, so I bought brown shoe polish and did that, a few days ago. The shoe laces were all worn out and on the verge of breaking any day, so I went looking for new shoe laces. I tried two stores, Walmart and Payless Shoes, because they were convenient. They had no flat brown shoelaces in the necessary length! So I gave up on buying local and purchased two pair through Amazon. Today I put them on my shoes, and told my husband, "The oddest little things make me happy! Now I can wear my shoes again!"