Trying to burn a few extra calories, I have been sneaking away to run on a treadmill during lunch.  This sounds great in theory, “Oh Dave, you go get ’em.  Lose that weight.  You can do it, slugger!”  The problem is that in practice, between the drive to and from the gym, in addition to any post-run clean up time, it only leaves me about 20 minutes to run.  As a result, I must take a ultra quick shower.

So earlier this week, I jumped into the shower, but as my feet hit the wet locker room floor, I was struck by hesitation.  A fear.  A realization that my bare feet had just entered a realm of danger.  An area potentially prime for wart transmission.  Ew.  Double ew.  Triple ew.  Yuck and more yuck.

Heading back to work, I made a judgement call.  Would I be anywhere close to a store that sells cheap flip-flop shower shoes anytime soon?  Would said stores even have flip-flops for sale this time of year?  How much time am I wasting even considering the question?  Oh, the answer became clear.  I was wasting more time than it would take to justify the shipping costs of a flip-flop shower shoe purchase on Amazon.

Select color.  Click.  Select size.  Click.  See “Buy” button.  Click.  Done deal.  No more showering without a safety net.  My feet are now gonna be worry free.  Now, I just need to figure out how to bend space and time to fit in a few more minutes of exercise and everything is going to be just fine.