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| Tropicals |
One day a girl moved to Africa. She rediscovered what she
always knew—sand and dirt between her feet and footwear left her feeling batty. She always had to stop along the path to shake sand out of her sandals.
She borrowed her friend’s flip-flops and then decided to
shop for a pair of her own. One of her African friends taught her that flip-flops are called “Tropicals”
in Zambia .
One day when the girl and her friend were walking by Pep in
town, she saw cute tropicals in the window. The girls went in and she bought a
pair of tropicals.
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| I was quite amused by the sales tag, "LADIES BASIC SANDALS (2)" How many would you think there would be?? |
Now the girl doesn't have to borrow her friend’s tropicals,
because she has her own. She can wear the tropicals out in the sand and doesn't go buggy about the little bits of dirt in her tropicals, because they are
cheap, so it is okay for them to be dirty.
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| It is also interesting to note that in the States, I always wear a 7.5 or 8 shoe/sandal... but here, I bought size 6 tropicals, and they're none too snug! |
Also, when the girl thinks about tropicals, she thinks of
her friend in the Dominican
Republic , because she knows that friend
would love to call flip-flops “Tropicals” too!
PS- This is a true story.
Tropicals! I love it and I'm going to begin using it starting today....wait! I'm going hiking today...starting tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found such a happy solution to the sand between the toes problem.
Your friend in the Dominican Republic does love the idea of Tropical flip-flops! And word on the street has it that you made a great choice. Although your friend must admit that she loves the sand between her toes - at the beach :)
ReplyDeleteFun! I'm pretty sure shoe sizes in Malawi and South Africa (and probably Zambia too) are UK sizes, and they're about a size or two bigger than American sizes.
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