NEW SHOES BLUES

 

Spiders webs always make objects and places look ancient.

The image of a spooky old house invariably has cobwebs about the interior - on book shelves, in cabinets, on the windows, on stair hand rails, that kind of thing.

So this cliched vision always connects the presence of cobwebs to antiques and neglected old buildings.

Then when you see a spiders web in a modern setting, it still makes the scene appear like it's from the past because of this association it has, as if the items the web attaches to have been there for decades.

I once bought a pair of fashionable designer shoes but chose to not wear them for a couple of weeks until the weather was more suitable.

I put the new shoes onto my shoe rack and kept them there for about 2 weeks.

Then when the moment came to put them on, I discovered that both of the new shoes had spiders webs inside..!!

It made it seem like the shoes had been sitting there unused for many years, rather than be the modern trendy footwear they were.

It almost made me want to throw them out because they suddenly looked old fashioned.

GG