Crocs crocs baby.....the greatest shoe made today

Let me just start this by saying that I am so pissed that I didn't buy stock in this company 2 years ago ! I mean, really pissed.

So the story goes like this: the SnowBabe & I were celebrating our 5 year anniversary on the island of Maui, (see some pics to the right on this site) and I am struggling to find a good beach shoe. I mean tennis shoes suck, too much work with socks and the laces and all. I have a nice pair of Reefs, which are a sandle type flip flop that don't have that annoying stem that goes between your Big and next toe, but they weren't working out because they have a buckly type thing that requires at least one hand to take off and two to put back on.

So I scrapped that pair and went with the Wal-Mart $2 traditional flip flop things with the stem figuring that i could endure the discomfort just for the beach. Well, one day of walking on the sand and having that shit fly up the back of my legs and my back and hit me in the back of the head and I said, "Fuck this shit!"

The next logical thing for me was to just go bare foot, leave the flip flops in the car and hoof it down to the sand with no shoes. Let me just tell you this, and this may or may not be common knowledge, in Hawaii, most of the beaches are made up of some form of black sand, which is pretty much smashed up lava rock in varying stages. The same goes for any sand really, it can be reef particles, rocks particles, lava rocks, shells, SpongeBob Squarepants, you name it. Well two things, unless you are some dude that has never worn shoes in your entire life, that shit hurts your damn feet. Unfortunately, my feet seem to find every non-pulverized shell, rock, stick, reef, coral, glass, beer tabs (from 25 years ago) or any other thing that you could possibly step on and injure your foot. If I happen to be lucky enough to not step on the many shards of glass that are laying in wait, (oh, forgot to mention that the S.B. stepped on a bee one day on the beach and hopped around like a kangaroo on LSD for about 20 minutes before we decided to just get drunk), both the parking lot(which is sometimes asphault in HI) and the beach are black. Does black reflect or absorb the sun? Hmmmmm, let me think about that for a minute while I attempt to walk about 70 yards with two beach chairs, a full cooler of the beers, a beach umbrella and host of other shit. Fuck yes it absorbs the heat, which consequently burns the shit out of your already mangled feet, so it's a double fucking whammy.

That lasted about one day before I decided that having sand thrown up my backside and a sore spot between my toes was a hell of a lot better than the previous idea. So I decide not to let this bother me too much, I mean I'm hanging in Maui for 18 days with the SnowBabe and none of the Snow offspring, pretty much just drinking and going to different beaches on a daily basis, oh and trying like hell to produce the third SnowBaby, which is incredible. We're having a blast, driving an old model Jeep Wrangler, never had the top up once when I stumble into this dive shop by the trusty ABC on yet another booze run. I walk in, look up and see a wall of color when it hits me!

I have to try those things on! So I look up at the bimbo with the fake tits behind the sales counter and ask her what the deal is with those goofy looking shoes. She gives me the low down, I try on a pair and decide that I have to have some. These damn things look goofy as hell but they are pretty comfy and I'm guessing that i can wear them on the beach too. I grab a pair of the navy blue and a bright ass fucia pair for the SnowBabe and the rest as they say, is history.

We wore them on the plane on the way back home(in first class of course) and got a lot of comments from the non-informed. What started strictly as a beach and run around type of shoe for me has turned somewhat into an obsession. I now have 4 pairs of these damn things and wear them everywhere. I even wear them mix-matched for fun. I'll wear one navy and one bright yellow just to see what kind of comments I'll draw. Anyway, the stock went from $10 (this was 2005 when i first bought these damn things) to over $50. The entire medical community wears these damn things, every kid at the beach and disney and everywhere else you look has them too. They just inked deals with Disney and Nickelodean too. Ah, sweet hindsight.

Go buy some of these fucking things right fucking now.

Let me just tell you this, (who used to say that all the time?) if you wear some of these things, you'll end up owning some. they are great, check out the web site, join the revolution.

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