She was wearing sandals!!

So D's friend J had a low-key bachelor party tonight (something called Escape the Room, where a team has to follow clues to escape a room, then a meal at a restaurant where we used to go a lot, but haven't in a while, so the waiter was asking D where he had been). Anyway, J had been married once before, but it ended badly. When we went to his first wedding, I apparently wore a dress and sandals, and his wife privately flipped out, saying to J, "She was wearing sandals!" I can't even remember what sandals they were. Maybe Birkenstocks. That seems like the only kind of sandal worth flipping out over. And I used to wear them all the time until they started hurting my feet. I'm wearing sandals to the 2nd wedding, too, though they are black and a little fancier.

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Rachel Federman said…
You are my hero
12:44 PM
Bearette said…
Haha! Thanks :)
2:07 PM
Domestic Kate said…
How do people have the energy to care what their guests wear to a wedding? Sheesh. Plus, in California, no one would have cared about the sandals at all :)
10:26 PM
Bearette said…
I know, I never noticed what shoes people wore to my wedding. And J's first wife used to make him wear lifts in his shoes. An odd person...
6:42 AM
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