Shoes...

... why don't I learn with shoes? Why is it that winter shoes are usually ugly, though comfy and the gorgeously dainty summer, show your painted toenails off ones are some kind of torture device?! Spent the day in a dainty black pair and now have blisters on every single toe (and NO, they weren't pointed toed ones, they were rounded!) and managed to avoid the ball of the foot blisters by remembering to put in the gel pad. Last time I forgot and had the most amazing blood blister under the entire ball of my foot.
Now these shoes I've had for five years, you'd think I would have given up by now and got rid of them eh? Nope, I like them and they're comfy for about half way to the train station in the morning and then all foot hell breaks loose! Plus the fact that by the time it takes for my feet to heal I've completely forgotten the whole foot fiasco blister pain thing! Why can't they make the inside of these shoes like the gel pads that you put in them? Or even better, install little rockets so that you just float along above the pavement! Would save a lot of blisters, hobbling along like you've got some kind of crippling condition or having to walk in bare feet!