The Shoe Store of the Nuns & Hookers

Shopping for Shoes in Madrid

We were strolling through the

shopping streets just off Sol Square

in Madrid and came upon a shoe

store that had beautiful men's loafers.

We went in to look around and of course,

I looked at the women's shoes...

I sat down next to Rob and with a heavy

sigh, exclaimed, "they only have shoes

for nuns and hookers!"

With that in come 2 little nuns, looking at

the nuns shoes, not the hooker area.

We moved on and while out on the

street we noticed there were lots

of hookers around.  As it was early

afternoon I remarked I thought it was

sort of early for hookers to be out.  My then

14 year old son pointed out to me, it

was Siesta time.

How true, yet still a bit disconcerting

to have your 14 year old think of that!

A few days later while in the area,

I convinced Rob to get a few pair of

loafers.  We went back to this store

and as we waited for the salesman

to return with the shoes, in comes

a "lady of the evening afternoon."

We knew this since she was dressed

in canary yellow hot pants with a

matching halter top and fishnet stockings.

As the weather was turning very

Spring-like she would need those new silver

lame strappy sandals instead of her

thigh high boots.

I just looked at Rob with the

"I told ya so" look.

Oh yeah, after seeing her...

I bought the nuns shoes.