These shoes are really cheap. are they really shitty?

i need new work shoes and i'm determined to shop exclusively on amazon.com for anything non-perishable.

I dont know you anymore.

Are they made for $.05 in China and resold for $75 to stupid Americans?

too much project runway.

you guys are giving me shit for no reason. i basically went to the 21st century's Sears catalog and looked for work shoes, of which these were $40:

As my wife recently promised all of our money to the housenote or the taxman, this fits my budget. what i want to know is if they're made of horses or something. although i'm not sure that i care all that much about that either.

$40 seems reasonable for cheap leather and rubber. Whats the problem, Salvation Army not good enough for you anymore?

no one at work respects me looking like i look. you realize that i'm not in grad school anymore, right?

Buddy, this has nothing to do with the shoes.

Seriously though, did you graduate or get kicked out. What do you do? My baby is all growed up

graduated. took a corporate soul-sucking job (against haq's advice).

wait it's respect you were after?

no, i'll take tacit dismissal. but i really just can't attract any undue attention.

i have these. they've worked out pretty well for me, though i don't wear them every day.

redwings, so you know they'll last for like a decade + you won't feel like a pussy wearing them with jeans. + steel toes, for kicking people in the teeth. = you win

i wear these almost everyday and they have been excellent for a couple years now.