Memories...aah...you girls are waking long forgotten images in me.

Did anybody else get new shoes at the beginning of each school year? Remember Buster Brown shoes? Do they still make them? Loved it when they were shiny, without scuffs and the thick madras shoelaces weren't frayed at the end.

Okay, I've never ever told this to anyone before in my life.
Here goes; … I used to introduce my shoes to my old shoes lined up on my closet floor. You know, the same way the teacher would introduce a new classmate to the other pupils.
But that's not the worst of it. My mother told me I marched to school like a soldier. I swung my legs stiff and straight, throwing them way up high, so I could fully enjoy my new 'shoe view'.

Honest Injun, I don't walk like that anymore; stopped cold turkey last week.