Sunday Shoes

As young teenagers, my two brothers and I would go out late at night during the winter and use our Sunday dress shoes to slide down the mountain. After just a few short weeks, we realized that we could also slide down the mountain to the school, so we started taking our Sunday shoes to school. We would change when we reached the point where our mom could no longer see us, then we would slide all the way down the hill. As you can imagine, our shoes wore out pretty quick. Our mom noticed that our shoes were looking terrible and asked why. We all shrugged our shoulders and acted like we knew nothing. But then when she saw a pair laying by the front door with a hole in the sole she was beside herself. She yelled our names and sat us unceremoniously on the couch and let us have it until we confessed. We had to work several extra jobs to pay for buying new shoes after just a few months of ownership.