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rae_of_sunshine · 07-22-2006, 03:25 AM

Well last night was my last Friday night in San Sebastian so I wanted to go out and party. Met up with a couple people, it was all cool, and then my flip flop broke! F**k! Walking around barefoot really sucks, and is pretty disgusting too. My friend took his shoes off too and we tried to start a trend but no one went for it

I only lasted an hour and a half before walking home. My feet were black and are so sore now. Flip flops always break at the most inconvenient times...why can´t there be a shoe store open at 1am?
...Anyone else have a broken shoe story?

**MolsonGirl** · 07-22-2006, 08:39 AM

Not a Broken shoe story, but last night I was partying in Toronto wearing heels and as soon as we were out of the club and on the street I had to take my heels off because they were send shooting pains up my spine with every step...

so more of a walking around a major city barefoot story.

**blinkchick2134** · 07-22-2006, 09:05 AM

Last year at the Bonnaroo music festival I was walking thru one of the many fields of mud, needless to say at several points my flipflop was sucked in by the mud. With no light, there I was on my hands and knees feeling around in the mud. Good times, I found it every time though.

**c0urt** · 07-22-2006, 09:40 AM

hmm, i broke my leg, and spent the next 6 weeks riding my motorcycle with one shoe one. the could rainy nights sucked. as well as every piece of debris known to man flying up the front of my cast

**beergal** · 07-22-2006, 10:05 AM

^yuk!

So many of my shoes have broken i hate it when i have to throw away a pair usually the ones that i throw away dont have heels either im definately a flat shoe girl but when i go out i always wear heels or boots

**SuDz** · 07-24-2006, 10:28 AM

The current pair of sandals I am wearing now have some signs of dying on me. The soles are starting to wear a little, still good, but just losing the top layer. The straps at my heal are starting to go a little too. It is going to suck to try to replace these when they go because of the price, and also because of the memories with them. I know it sounds goofy, but there are a bunch.

I have been wearing them for over a year almost non stop now though. I know I have put hundreds of walking miles on them and plrenty of abuse (saltwater, hiking, climbing rocks, sports, and plenty more) but they have held up amazingly well.

SuDZ

foofiter · 07-24-2006, 10:45 AM

Luckily I love my Havaianas here from Brasil. Only $7 per pair and I am sending a few home since they are $30 a pair in the USA. Hmmm maybe I should get more to sell...

I love em though. They are tough, comfortable, and serve their purpose well.

Foo

**lauren313** · 07-24-2006, 02:14 PM

I was distraught when one of my flip flops broke a couple of years ago. I was at the Reading Festival, and my beloved flip flops got so caked in mud, that it all began to rot away a bit, and then one broke. I'd had them for ages, and they were soooo comfy. I felt kind of bad just chucking them in a bin, I felt I should have cremated them or somthing!

**TheJake** · 07-24-2006, 02:36 PM

im going on two years with my chaco flipflops and I swear they are barely showing any signs of wear. I wear them more than any other shoe and they are incredible

At 50 dollars though I expected amazing things and they haven't let me done.

www.chacousa.com

**Brookers13** · 07-24-2006, 03:48 PM

i had to throw my flips away after pamplona....ewww i dry heave when i think of them now....

and yes i want some havis as i now love australians and they all have them

**Joker** · 07-25-2006, 05:27 AM

I won't own impractical footwear, flips included. My birkenstocks and tevas have lasted me through many, many, many drunken/other encounters in multiple locales and never once separated from my feet leaving me stranded and shoeless. :D

**Brookers13** · 07-25-2006, 07:03 AM

flips are the most practical shoes i have ever owned...i brought flips and sneakers on this trip and have worn sneakers a total of 1 time

**lauren313** · 07-25-2006, 09:30 AM

Flip flops are practical for me... until someone steps on one and I carry on walking. My friend did that to me a while ago, I swear I almost ripped my foot clear down the middle.

**c0urt** · 07-25-2006, 10:42 AM

I never could do sandals, i hate not wearing socks and i drag my left foot a little, so i can never keep them on. and i never could do boots or hightops that cover my ankles, I am not sure why tho

scottishbhoy · 07-25-2006, 05:52 PM

i had flip flops, they were amazing
i swapped them with my cousin for a pair of converse
which i then lost on a bus 2 days later

gutted

**LostFarmboy** · 07-25-2006, 06:56 PM

I lost a pair of my havaianas that i brought back from Brazil at very drunken christmas party last year. Luckily for me i bought a backup pair. I just wish it would warm up enough for me to wear them.....stupid winter.

**benna2** · 07-25-2006, 06:58 PM

Oh you pansy ass Aussie boys don't know what winter is!! Come to Canada and experience a real winter~!!

**LostFarmboy** · 07-25-2006, 07:12 PM

Hey, it got down to -8 last month, it was the coldest temperature ever recorded for this area, that's bloody freezing!!! Any colder than that is just plain rediculous.

**SuDz** · 07-26-2006, 09:41 AM

Now try having about 4 months of that al in a row without break.

SuDZ

**Majestic58** · 07-27-2006, 12:18 AM

are Havaianas more comfortable than other flip flops? Cause usually that strap between the toes drives me nuts.:P