She was very torn - she wanted to be offended and make a scene, that was clear, but she really wanted the shoes and didn't want to pay for them. (Don't get me started. I could talk for days about just this particular shopping trip.) Getting new stuff won that day.

I always have shoe salesmen try to fit me in smaller shoes...

Same with large feet, honestly. I wear a size 10-11, depending on the shoe, and they almost never have my size in the shoes that I want. It's even worse for people with bigger feet than me.

You actually do get it.

My boyfriend has a messed up pinky toenail thanks to his mom acting like this. Until I told him other wise, he honestly thought shoes were meant to be tight to the point that your toes barley fit in them. The nail grows at this odd angle thanks to being crushed for two decades.

Women of a certain age were brought up to believe that having small feet was ladylike and feminine. They routinely lie about their shoe size. I know a woman who says "I wear a 6, but a 7 feels so good I get an 8." Seriously. For real.

This reminds me of Steel Magnolias "In a good shoe, I wear a size six, but a seven feels so good, I buy a size eight!" God Bless Dolly Parton

i wonder how she handles toilet bowl, if she thinks that's soup in there, its ok, she won't last much longer.

And people're like "oh, just wear kids shoes" and you have to look at them and be all "have you seen kid's shoes?"

Guys do this, except the opposite way. "Oh, I wear like size 15. Yeah." Then they buy giant clown shoes.

No.

I'm the same way with jeans. A 32 inch waist is more comfortable, but I'm really a 24...

She is just so dainty and feminine and petite.

I put oatmeal in mine. Is that elitist?

LOL. Good on your husband for calling out that bullshit. I laughed out loud at "The size 8 is more comfortable to walk in but I don't wear that" bit. Um, isn't that pretty much the defining thing about shoe size, is how comfortable it is to, you know, walk?

I have a friend with lady's size 11 feet, and she has a hell of a time trying to get shoes. One place she used to go eventually stopped selling that size, and when she asked why, the manager said, "Well, customers found they made their feet look big!"

My mother-in-law literally does the shoe thing. We bought her new sneakers once, and she insists she wears a 5.5 which is weird because she has worn my shoes and I'm a 7.5/8.

EVEN THE SUPER BOWL HAS SOUP IN IT JUST CHECK THE CAMPBELL ADS

I am STILL responding to someone from the last thread who is determined to explain why someone might, due to cultural difference, make a mistake like assuming an appetizer menu item called "bacon-wrapped scallops" was a sort of scalloped potato recipe.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN A BOWL WITHOUT SOUP IN IT. If you don't understand this, you are a heartless elitist.