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Jan G's avatar

You forgot the adventure of taking one’s life in one’s hands going down carpeted stairs in flip-flops. Is it really hands? Yes, it is. One or more hands may have the option of grabbing the railing to prevent a slide all the way to the bottom. Yon feet are flying upwards and presently of no use whatsoever. The carpeting at least has the upside of cushioning the blow when the hips hit the edge of the stair. Oooff!!

Several big bruises later, I still refuse to give up the convenience of flip-flops. But I have learned to go down stairs v-e-e-e-r-r-y-y-y slowly.

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Robin Wilding's avatar

😆😆😆 Ah yes of course, carpet-based flop injuries. But I love how you're equally as stubborn as me anyway.

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Bernhard Guenter's avatar

How do flip-flops and the Canadian winter get along? My imagination fails at this question... 🏔️❄️☃️

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Honestly these answers are already fantastic, not sure I could do better 😆

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Kim Vale's avatar

My son was putting his on one New Year’s Eve, going from the hot tub to go inside the house. Slipped on the ice (which is a normal thing to have around hot tubs which are used in Canadian winters), fell and ended up with a spiral fracture and 4 other fractures in his left arm. There was alcohol involved.

Alcohol + hot tubs + ice + flip flops = a bad combination.

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Paul Riddell's avatar

Let’s put it this way: ever dip a rose into liquid nitrogen and then drop it? (This, incidentally, is the appropriate Canadian way of serving brisket in winter. Just eat it before it gets cold.)

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Dan Levine's avatar

the ff's get lashed to her warm winter boots - like crampons.

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Amber Wolf's avatar

Same way I can walk barefoot in the snow in below freezing temperature. As long as the wind is calm you are generally fine.

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Chris DeCap's avatar

In Morocco, I saw a bunch of guys making flip-flop looking footwear out of old tires. Maybe if they can get ahold of a steel-belted aqua-tread, they can make some that won’t slide like you’re playing Russian roulette with each step.

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Brilliant idea Chris 😆😆

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Kay-El's avatar

I actually have a pair that look like tire treads on the bottom. Have lasted for years

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Dan Levine's avatar

they are probably rated for 50,000 miles. thats a lot of walking.

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Sallyfemina's avatar

They're called huaraches over here. They will still kill you, but they last longer.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Viva la chancla!!! Yes, yes, yes! My feet’s can’t function in those toe prisons, and I wait all winter for temperatures warm enough for them; I’ve even worn them with socks when it was chilly. Once again, proof that we are related, dear niece! ❤️

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Robot Bender's avatar

I swear you couldn't be an abuela without knowing how to use La Chancla!

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Absolutely not, they'd take back your abuela card.

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Robin Wilding's avatar

We're definitely cut from the same cloth; I too have worn them with socks (and pretend to be fancy like a Geisha).

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Maryellen Ackroyd's avatar

Omg! You left me laughing hysterically this morning reading this! Coffee spewing out of my nose. 😂😂😂

Love your writing, Robin. 👍🏼😊

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Paul Riddell's avatar

I had coffee spewing out my nose, too. Sadly, I was drinking Vernors ginger ale at the time. OW.

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Ah yes ginger ale out the nose, ouchy from both the bubbles and the stinging of the ginger.

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Kim Vale's avatar

I love Vernor’s! It’s still available somewhere?

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Maryellen Ackroyd's avatar

Oww, is right! Vernor’s is crazy just smelling it. 😂😂 but coming through your nose must’ve been a fuzzy trip! #tellmeyourefrommichigan

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Paul Riddell's avatar

Don’t you know it. Worse, my paternal grandparents were Ontarians, and I’ve been in Texas for most of my life. (The fictional character the most like me is Alex Kumal from “The Expanse”: a Martian that’s disturbingly Texan.)

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Maryellen Ackroyd's avatar

Hugs to you & your state for the tragic loss of all those people & young campers in the flash flooding. 😢😔

May their families find comfort in the memories they left.

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Paul Riddell's avatar

Thank you. It hasn't affected me personally (Dallas only caught glancing blows from the big storms, but a BIG one came through this morning, so I'm sincerely hoping that everyone around Kerr is safe from the new flooding), but I have friends whose families are still waiting on word. We're hopeful, but we're also bracing for the worst. Thank you again.

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Maryellen Ackroyd's avatar

I’m so sorry for your friends. 😢. Sending positive thoughts for good outcomes.

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Yay! Thanks :)

Although sorry about the coffee hehe

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Robot Bender's avatar

I was going to mention La Chancla! Growing up in Puerto Rico, I got to know them well. I swear they were heat seeking and could turn corners to get you! 😆 🇵🇷

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Spot on about them being heat seaking and can turn corners 😆😆

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Sallyfemina's avatar

See my comment. They are.

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Carol's avatar

Phillipe Phaloppe totally cracked me up! I’m a fellow addict! But here in California i can wear the damn things pretty much year-round.

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Robin Wilding's avatar

I knew I'd find my fellow addicts here in the comment section. Ooh la la, year-long flippyfloppy's sound wonderful. Dangerous, but wonderful.

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Kathy Minicozzi's avatar

I don't like flip-flops because I can't stand that toe hold thingy.

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Yeah some people hate it. I find it comfortable, like a thong for your toes.

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Gillie's avatar

It gives me terrible blisters on my toes. I’d rather not have blisters….

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Kathy Minicozzi's avatar

That's a good reason not to like flip-flops!

I also don't like them because they don't have arch support.

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Sk's avatar

I’ve seen women walk for miles in these damn things (which are as thin as paper). I just think “ you’ll be sorry when you’re 60).

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Paul Riddell's avatar

I take grief for being nearly 60 and still wearing motorcycle boots everywhere. I just tell the complainers "Have you SEEN the arch support in these? Scaring the crap out of Karens is just gravy."

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Robin Wilding's avatar

I might've been one of those women. I'll keep you updated when I turn 60 😆

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Jan G's avatar

I am 60. Plus. And sometimes I am sorry. 🫤

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Carol Finch's avatar

Friend of mine has a flip flop phobia. I kid you not.

I have never shown her photos of flip flops to set her off. That would be bad 😈

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Robin Wilding's avatar

😆😆 Well, that's a phobia I hadn't heard of before. Oh the things I learn being friends with you Carol.

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Carol Finch's avatar

I'm the gift that keeps on giving....

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Rachel C's avatar

I found some long ago that were made of something other than plastic. Not as slidey, and lasted for years 🩴👹

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Robin Wilding's avatar

Ooh, good find. I gotta look for less slidey.

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Mcdude's avatar

Is flip-flop golf next?

I like to think of them as slip n’ stitches. Tore my big toe mail off once in flip-flops. No fun!

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Robin Wilding's avatar

slip n' stitches, that's brilliant 😆

I've lost my big toe nail from them too, so I know exactly how that feels.

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Trish Keene's avatar

And each slip adds 20 points to you fight-or-flight anxiety level. But do we learn???? Of course not!!

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Robin Wilding's avatar

😆😆

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Amber Wolf's avatar

bare feet ftw

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Clark's avatar

Never worked for me Robin. Would get inside toe rash that would’ve made Henry VIII blush!

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Mark Hayes's avatar

I've always wondered something about Old Navy...

...which old navy?

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Robin Wilding's avatar

hmm...the eldest of the navy's?

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Mark Hayes's avatar

Phoenician?

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