Ami's Journal

Today I wore a pair of shoes to work that I had only worn once before. As I was walking from my car to my office building, I noticed that the heels on the shoes felt funny. I remember thinking that I had noticed the same thing the only other time I had worn them before. When I got to the exit of the parking garage and was on the sidewalk just about to cross the street to get to my building, I slipped on something and fell. I got up right away and a woman getting out of her car nearby said, "are you all right?" "Oh, I'm fine," I said while trying to recover at least a modicum of dignity. Then the woman said, "your heel is broken." And I looked down to see that indeed it was. I decided to go home quickly to get another pair of shoes. But first I had to hobble back to my car with only one functional shoe and blood dripping from both knees. So much for dignity.