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To: Rambi who wrote (10865)	5/31/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 71178

A footwear faux pas - Last evening I attended a church service. As I stood to join the congregation in singing praises for the collection just taken, I made a horrifying discovery. My shoes, while indentical in style, were different colors. Black and Brown. So during the ensuing sermon I replayed my encounters with acquaintances while entering the church, and I was able to satisfy myself that none of them displayed a "I see your shoes but I'm too polite to say anything" look on their faces. Then I reasoned that the shoes, after all, were not that much different, as the brown shoe was cordovan, a darkish brown that was much closer to black than, say, saddle tan. And I felt fortunate to have followed the advice of a shoe salesman who recommended shining cordovan shoes with black paste wax. "It will take off the reddish edge and give them a richer look," he said. Increasingly desperate for rationalization, I concluded that my mercifully matching socks managed to pull the visual mishmash together, albeit minimally. After the service, I completed the pew-to-auto trek in record time and heard not a single snicker. Praise the Lord.