These Walking Boots

[bunn]

[Poll #1827999]

And for the sake of completeness:

the same brand & style of boot

Same brand, different style - but so cheap!

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

My walking boots are wonderfully comfortable - definitely the most comfortable footwear I own. I wear them even for a walk of a couple of miles on town roads. I have a tendency to walk on the insides of my feet, which means that I get joint pain and pain in the tendons of my feet after just a few miles in "normal" shoes. My boots give me ankle support and fit wonderfully, which meant that I could walk 70 miles last week without the slightest hint of discomfort in my joints or feet, and not even a hint of a blister. So just because you didn't find boots comfortable, it doesn't follow that everyone wearing them is doing them out of some sort of strange sense of martyrdom.

And surely something can't be masochistic if you enjoy every minute of it...? :-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Oh you know what he's like, he loves to provoke. I have a theory that his family history contains troll blood...

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I knew I was feeding the troll, but one has to occasionally take pity on the species. It can't be nice hiding under a bridge, waiting for billy goats to come by, especially if your boots don't fit. :-)

(Really, several people this week have informed me almost aggressively that I was an idiot to do my big walk, so it's a sufficiently touchy subject for me to feel the need to respond, even though I knew I was rising to a deliberate bait.)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

They're only jealous :-D

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Surely if you're a masochist then you want to be doing something unpleasant, and doing something you enjoy can't really be unpleasant, so by enjoying yourself you'll be denying yourself your masochistic pleasures. Which presumably then counts as torturing yourself... :-)