Auswanderer Quatsch

Its done… they’re gone… :’(

Today’s story starts a long time ago… 6 or 7 years ago at least… and ends in the snow beside our window!

Those have been my winter shoes for ages, could it be 6 or 7 years? Actually more since I got myself this pair after my foot went through the exact same pair (and that one was at least 5 years old as well). Anyway, those (the very ones on the picture) have been my all-weather-dry-feet partners for many seasons. I handled them with care, I kept them tidy after running in the mud, removed the stones from the soles and even greased them every now and then… oh such a good relationship we had :’(

Last Summer – like every Summer – I put them in the basement to relax and recover from a long and exhausting winter.

I don’t know why, they did not like it. I guess it was the moisture of the summer that they did not understand… our winter jackets did not either actually, but they recovered… the leather did not. When I took them out a few weeks / months ago, they expressed their depressed mixed feelings by smelling like hell.

I told myself that it was just a passing mood, that I just had to express my love again by wearing them a couple days by foul weather and they would find back the feelings they once had for me and all would be like before… but no. They refused to dry-up, they insisted on keeping this nasty smell, even after I forced them to sleep on the balcony and greased them with love and patience once again.

Full of despair, I set them back on the balcony… as far from my sight as I could, secretly hoping that the rain, the snow and the wind would finally wash my smelly-pain away… but no. Even after the weeks of extreme cold we had, even when they were hard and cracked under my fingers like paperboard, they hung up to this smell that I now loathe.

But I still cannot make my mind to throw them away…