Clark Kent, kompjuterski guru, spasitelj stolnih ljubimaca i kršni dečko
visine blizu 2 m ima problema s nalaženjem cipela.
"Ma nemoj!", vičete u zboru. Istina, kunem se.
Nosi broj 47 i frustriran je činjenicom da je izbor mali, iako ima
puno ljudi sa sličnim problemom.
Sućutno dižem obrve. Nosim broj 40 i žensko sam, trebalo bi mi biti
barem 5 puta lakše naći cipele.
Ove godine frustrirana sam gotovo koliko i on. Inače ne volim kupovati
cipele, a sada to gotovo mrzim.
Imam posebne zahtjeve od
kojih ne mogu odustati zbog zdravlja, a oni jasno izbacuju
1) balerinke
2) štikle (u kojim i onako ne bih mogla puno hodati, a inače puno hodam)
Boje cipela zahtjevaju kupovinu barem 5 odjevnih predmeta u istoj boji,
materijali suho vrijeme i besprijekorno čiste i nevjerojatno ravne ceste.
Škrgućem zubima dok prolazim kraj šminkerskih dućana, koji neobjašnjivo
opstaju iako njihovi modeli koštaju kao pola nečije plaće.
Prisjećam se da je na mjestu ovog dućana nekoć bio CD shop, a na
mjestu onog drogerija koja nije bila DM. Što se ikad dogodilo tim
korisnim stvarima ?
Šepam dalje. Nakon desetak trgovina razvijam taktiku- uđem, uzmem
dječju cipelu koja je funkcionalna, anatomski napravljena i lijepo
izgleda i bacim ju prodavačici pod nos.
"Imate li ovakvih modela za odrasle ??"
Naravno, nikad nemaju.
Jer se zna da odrasle žene ne nose ništa u čemu bi mogle hodati na duge staze.
I ništa što je imalo anatomski oblikovano.
Zgađeno odustajem i odlazim kući.
Jadni Japanac, koji živi ovdje već nekoliko mjeseci, zaključio je
da su Hrvati opsjednuti cipelama.
Počinjem shvaćati što je mislio kad se drugo jutro probudim
iz sna u kojem me lovi krdo pomahnitalih balerinki.
Archaeologists find 2,000-year-old shoe
Preserved in hollow tree in southwest England
Helen Wilmot carefully works on a 2,000-year-old shoe at the Wiltshire Conservation Center in England on Tuesday. The shoe is said to be the equivalent of a size 10, with visible stitch and lace holes.
LONDON - Perhaps it was left for symbolic reasons, or simply forgotten in the mud. Archaeologists said Tuesday they had found a 2,000-year-old shoe hidden in a hollow tree used to construct an ancient well near Wellington in southwest England.
"As far as we know, this is the oldest shoe ever found in the United Kingdom," said Stephen Reed, who led the team from Exeter Archaeology that made the find on the site of a modern day quarry. "It is reasonably well-preserved, with stitch and lace holes still visible in the leather."
The shoe is being studied by conservationists in Salisbury, southwest England, and is expected to be displayed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.
It was found when the owners of Whiteball Quarry began working in the area, where a Bronze Age iron-smelting site had been discovered in 1989.
Nearby, researchers from Exeter Archaeology found two water troughs, along with two timber-lined wells, preserved by waterlogging and probably dating from the early part of the Iron Age (700 BC to AD 43).
One of the wells had been constructed over a spring using a hollowed tree trunk set into the ground. "The tree trunk was removed from the site so that its contents could be excavated under laboratory conditions," Reed said. " The truly remarkable discovery of the shoe was made when this work was being undertaken by the Wiltshire Conservation Center."
The shoe is nearly 12 inches long, suggesting its owner was male, archaeologists said.
It may have been left for symbolic reasons when the site was closed or simply been lost in the mud within the spring. "The importance about this shoe is that these sort of things don't really survive at all on the archaeological record, usually because they rot down," Reed said.
He said the shoe was the first of its kind to be found in Britain, while even in Europe they numbered only "in the tens."
Post je objavljen 13.05.2005. u 10:53 sati.