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golfhobo 07-29-2012 02:48 AM


Originally Posted by MichiganDriver (Post 513691)
Is 14 close enough? :)

Ha! If I had one of your shoes... I wouldn't have needed to buy a boat!

I don't see how you can even turn around in a T/S bathroom stall! Bet you have to turn on your flashers and BACK IN. :p

Malaki86 07-29-2012 02:57 AM

Lmfao

Roadhog 07-29-2012 02:59 AM


Originally Posted by golfhobo (Post 513692)
Ha! If I had one of your shoes... I wouldn't have needed to buy a boat!

I don't see how you can even turn around in a T/S bathroom stall! Bet you have to turn on your flashers and BACK IN. :p

MD would be a good flatbed driver. You need big feet to hang off the side grabbing tarp in a stiff wind. (kinda like King Kong on the side of a building)
It's mostly a bitch running forklifts. They are not kind to big dogs. (mine are 15)
Also, I hated having to climb the side of a cabover. Like wiggling into a B-29.

MichiganDriver 07-29-2012 06:54 AM


Originally Posted by golfhobo (Post 513692)
I don't see how you can even turn around in a T/S bathroom stall! Bet you have to turn on your flashers and BACK IN. :p

I've had to call an attendant for help a few times. :)

They're only about 12 inches long. I wore size 11 for most of my life but ever since Asia started making shoes for us I now have bigger feet. Size 13 sometimes - I bought a pair of New Balance sneakers last week and had to go with the 14s. Either my feet are growing or those people over there are nuts.

Roadhog 07-29-2012 07:26 AM


Originally Posted by MichiganDriver (Post 513709)
I've had to call an attendant for help a few times. :)

They're only about 12 inches long. I wore size 11 for most of my life but ever since Asia started making shoes for us I now have bigger feet. Size 13 sometimes - I bought a pair of New Balance sneakers last week and had to go with the 14s. Either my feet are growing or those people over there are nuts.

I use to get by with 13's.
I hate having to always try stuff on, and find out it doesn't fit, even though it's suppose to be my size.
Size 13 shoes, I can no longer even get my foot in them.

golfhobo 07-29-2012 01:25 PM

This whole conversation is getting more amusing by the moment... for me. You see, I recently had some "random thoughts" (that I forgot to post,) about this issue.

For some years I've heard about how Women's sizes have been shrinking. i.e: a woman who used to wear a size 9 dress now wears a size 6 or something. What we used to think of as skinny as heck... a size 5... is now a 3 or a 0. Women want to THINK they are smaller than they actually are. If YOUR brand shows them they can be a 5, they buy YOUR jeans. Simple, diabolical, and apparently "legal." I understand Marketing.

So, with guys is it the same... though diametrically opposite in direction? Do guys want to be "smaller?" Of course not. When our "idols" like Shaq wear a size 22 triple D, and shoe size is "legendarily" related to um... er... the "pleasure factor," is it unreasonable to consider that maybe your feet have not grown, but the "bar has been raised" and marketing agents have changed the "scale" by which our shoes are "sized?"

As a Democrat... therefore intrigued by (and generally supportive of) SCIENCE... I have been aggravated by the general "girth" of the newer generations. I'm talking about the normal sized ones. I would expect (though troubled by) the few sizes larger in male shoe size over the last 30 years. When I worked in a shoe store in the 70's and 80's, the largest size we carried in a "full line" was size 10. Larger sizes, like 11, 12 or even the occaisional 14... were usually "standard" models, and ugly at best. I got a bonus if I actually SOLD a pair!

But, we're not TALKING about our kid's generation here. You guys are just as old and decrepit as ME! What's with the big feet? I've SEEN a picture of Hoggie next to a vehicle. I judge his heighth at not over (or actually near...) 6 feet. I'm only an inch or so shorter than that. Don't KNOW what kind of behemoth MichiganDriver might be. :confused::p

Point is... maybe as women's sizes get smaller (for the same size or more girth,) Men's sizes get BIGGER to somehow boost our "sports influenced" egos.

classictruckman 07-29-2012 01:47 PM

Damn, I thought that if my shoe size was getting bigger then... Oh well.

Malaki86 07-29-2012 02:19 PM

Wait - are we hauling our feet and, umm, "pleasure factors" around on flatbeds now? I'm lost.

golfhobo 07-29-2012 02:29 PM


Originally Posted by classictruckman (Post 513730)
Damn, I thought that if my shoe size was getting bigger then... Oh well.

Nope. Faerie Tales. A Republican plot.

Roadhog 07-30-2012 12:16 AM

All I really know is, unlike a libtard, my head isn't swollen and oversized. (rotten)
My cranium finally turned to solid bone, sometime ago, and you know what??
I'm so clear headed now, even the whistling in my ears has stopped.

Damn Chinese is the problem. :mad:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...975_edited.jpg


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