I got a pair of Dansko clogs about a year ago because I was told that they were the best shoes for being on your feet all day. I didn’t really understand why I needed good shoes until I had to be on my feet in the hospital for 12 hours every day. My feet were killing me. So I bought a pair and love them. You know these shoes are good when so many people wear them despite the fact that they are one of the ugliest shoes on earth, especially when worn with green scrubs. I’ve worn my pair of Danskos so much that they look normal to me now, but I distinctly remember seeing people wear them before I started working in the hospital and wondering why the hell anyone would wear those shoes.
Anyway, $120 and three months later, my left shoe started squeaking. It progressed from a soft intermittent squeak to a very loud consistent squeak. It echoed in the halls where there was tile. It even squeaked loudly when I was walking on carpet. At first I was convinced that there was something on the bottom of my shoe, but after multiple cleanings I was disappointed to realize that the noise was coming from the inside of my shoe. Nurses and patients would look at me when I walked down the hall. It was so embarrassing. I knew they were judging me for having “dirty shoes”, but the soles weren’t dirty, they were defective! My Danskos were too comfortable and expensive to give up, but after a year of squeaking I couldn’t take it anymore.
I brought them to a department store that was selling them without a shoebox or receipt. I mentioned that I was having a problem with my Danskos…and was quickly interrupted and asked if they squeaked, even on carpet. Surprised, I said yes. Before I knew it, I was walking out the store with a new pair of Danskos. Apparently there was a large batch of Dansko clogs that had manufacturing defects and a lot of them squeaked. I felt like an idiot, I had suffered through months of squeaking when I could have just bought them in and exchanged them under the Dansko warranty. Whatever. I’m happy now, this pretty much made my day. No more squeaking and a new pair of Danskos.
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