Fleep Flop

Oi! Its spring...and that means sandals....and sandals means endless shopping to buy a new pair of 2 dollar flip flops at Wal-Mart or Target. You know how it goes, you buy the cutest pair of flip flops and you go to the beach, or you go shopping or you leave them lying around in your house. And the next day they are brown, stained by your feet or the little thing that goes between your toes has ripped from the bottom, or that mangy cat you call your friend has eaten off all the pretty and cute and then left them inside little presents on your kitchen floor.

Aye yi yi... so now that we all know what we have to look forward to lets go over what we are calling these loverly shoeses this year? When I lived at home, my dad used to freak out and chuck mine down the stairs saying "Pick up your thongs!" Now this is obviously no longer appropriate as we now wear thongs as underwear (I use the term we lightly...I haven't been able to get into this phenomenon. I prefer not to feel as if I'm wearing a piece of floss between my cheeks).

Then there's sandals... Well technically the genre of shoe these belong to is sandal...but its much too broad a term to use. And of course there's flip flops. It seems to me that this is confusing to alot of people. A few generations before mine used to call those sandals with one strap across the top of your foot flip flops. They make that smacking sound as well. Which is why (I think) they came up with "thongs" for the ones that go between your toe. And since we have already decided we can't call them that, I've come up with the word Fleep flop.

I have also been told that wearing new flip flops on a first date is a turn one....i believe its the smack smack smack sound they make....