New Shoes

Annabel got some new shoes today. She walked into the house and proudly marched over to me with them on her feet. I looked at them.

"Are those new shoes?" I asked.

"See? These have a C-Strap." She said.

"Whats a C-Strap?" I aked.
"It's like laces, but I can do it myself."

And she showed me. This is the shoe, and indeed it is just like laces, but the laces cinch together with a single Velcro strap.

I gave an impressed look and nodded in approval. "Wow." I said.

Then she launched into a commercial, clearly one she had heard frequently enough to remember.

"With these cool shoes, you can kiss laces goodbye!" She said, with a kind of announcer tone in her voice.

"Did you hear that on TV?" I asked.
"Do you know what?" She asked.
"No, what?"
"I did, but you know what?" She asked.
"No, What?"
"They were a different color on TV. They were orange, but these are better because they are pink and blue."

"Well those seem like great shoes". I said.

"They are."

I think she was happy about them all day long.