I said: I think my new goal is to get you
I said: into tennis shoes
he said: I don't wear sneakers
I said: I know. hence the goal.
he said: but I don't want to look like one of
he said: those guys who try to look really
he said: young but end up looking lame
I said: what are you talking about? it's
I said: not like I'm trying to cantilever
I said: your feet into a pair of fluorescent
I said: orange patent-trimmed padded nike
I said: basketballers. yeesh.
he said: you know, I have running shoes
I said: that's not what I mean. I'm talking
I said: casual shoes, that you can wear,
I said: just around, so that they're not all
I said: pointy and fussy. you know, a pair
I said: that you can kick around and not
I said: spend 15 minutes polishing every night.
he said: I don't think my shoes look fussy
I said: ...
he said: and I don't want to look like everyone
he said: else, in a pair of dirty white tennis
he said: shoes
I said: well, they don't have to be dirty.
I said: and it's not like there's only one kind
I said: of tennis shoe. I was thinking a pair
I said: of custom Vans. or a pair of suede etnies.
I said: something you can slip on when you're just
I said: lounging around, all casual.
he said: I think these are pretty casual
I said: really? those stiff, ultra-shiny leather
I said: lace-ups with the ultra-pointy toe and
I said: gloss laces that keep coming undone every
I said: block or so?
he said: ...
I said: I guess I was thinking of a different
I said: kind of casual...
he said: I don't understand why you want to
he said: get me into tennis shoes so much
I said: I don't understand why you resist so
I said: much. I mean, it's just tennis shoes.
I said: not like I'm asking you to grow a
I said: beard. or cut off your hair. shoes.
he said: I guess it's just one of those things
he said: you decide about yourself. at some
he said: point in my life, I decided that I
he said: didn't want to be someone who wore
he said: tennis shoes. it's what defines me
he said: and sets me apart from everyone else
he said: who does. it's about who I am.
I said: o.
I said: I guess I just didn't realize it was a
I said: philosophical thing.
