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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Wow -- What They Say About Crocs is True!

Disclaimer: If you're a blogosphere friend -- who shall remain unnamed -- who's going to write and say "I told you so" about my boys in Crocs, you don't need to say anything here. My boys will continue to wear Crocs, just not on day trips into big cities involving escalators! :-)

Escalators really do eat Crocs.

And here's our proof:


That's Timmy's right-foot NC State Croc. This was on the down escalator near the Blue/Orange line platform at the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station in D.C. I'm standing at the bottom of the escalator looking up.

I'd heard about this before. Merely Google "Crocs Escalators" and you'll see all sorts of stuff. I was aware of this before -- I typically make a point for my kids to stand in the center of the escalator no matter what shoes they're wearing. Even in regular shoes or sandals, there's a risk of injury. I'm aware of that. It's so rare that we're on escalators, I didn't give much thought to the boys NOT wearing their Crocs on our trip into Washington, D.C. just because of the escalators.

But on this particular escalator we were consistently getting shoved out of the way by folks wanting to walk up and down the escalator steps. So I had Timmy way over on our right to keep him out of the way.

Suddenly Timmy's stepping back and our escalator was grinding to a halt. Timmy had yanked his foot out of the shoe, evidenced by the broken strap on the right side, and he seemed fine.

There were all these people on the escalator when it stopped. They merely walked down the now-stationary steps and continued towards the train platform.

I after quickly whisking Timmy out of the way and checking his feet -- having him wiggle his toes -- we decided to leave the shoe there and just get on the train. After we took our seats I had to count to ten a few times -- I was pretty freaked at what a near-miss that was! Timmy was and still is fine. No tears, no nothing. He was pretty matter-of-fact about the whole thing...even about the loss of a shoe. This was at the end of our trip into the city, so it wasn't hard for him to be carried from the train to the van for the ride home.

Are we going to sue the D.C. Metro? No. We chose to take the D.C. Metro, we chose to incur the risks that go with it.

Are we going to sue Crocs? No. Buying/wearing Crocs is our choice, and we choose to accept the risks that go with it.

Part of me wishes we could sue the people who saw what was going on and refused to acknowledge our existence, but there's obviously nothing I could do about that. Dave tried to find someone to report the now-stopped escalator while I was checking Timmy, but he couldn't find anyone to help out. He tried to pull out the shoe, to no avail.

Will my kids continue to wear Crocs? Most likely. I'll definitely give more thought to the escalator-ness of our travels...for example, perhaps Crocs aren't the best thing when we're doing air travel, with the escalators in airports. But of course they're all of ours' shoes of choice for the beach, pool or boating.

In the meantime, since my boys will be spending time at the pool over the next couple days, Timmy is now the proud, happy owner of a new pair of Spiderman flip-flops!

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5 Comments:

At Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:46:00 AM CDT , Blogger Maryann Miller said...

My boys will continue to wear Crocs too:-)

 
At Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 6:03:00 AM CDT , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am so glad he did not get hurt! I'm sure he is enjoying his new shoes. I hope the rest of your trip goes well!

 
At Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 9:55:00 AM CDT , Blogger Unknown said...

I'm speechless. I feel the same way about crocs as Paul, but I never knew they were more than just a fashion faux pas.

After reading this I'm confused why these shoes are so awesome to you, that you would continue to let him wear them knowing the hazard?

There isn't a shoe out there (except maybe Manolo Blahniks, but my kids won't be wearing those, ahem) that is worth risking that kind of injury in the name of "fashion".

 
At Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 10:01:00 AM CDT , Blogger The Vollmers said...

This is item #456 that Paul and I agree to disagree on :-)

Bottom line, these shoes are SO comfortable and easy for the kids to take on/off. I don't think they're the most attractive shoes either, but in this case, the comfort and ease is the cincher.

I know there's a hazard on the escalator, and now I know that they shouldn't wear them there and that's fine. I don't think it's necessary to ban them forever, though. Until yesterday, I don't think the boys had been on an escalator since a trip to the mall at Christmas time. So long as there are no escalators at school, or in my house, or at the park, I think we can take the risk.

Mmmmm...Manolos....

 
At Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 6:01:00 PM CDT , Blogger Unknown said...

Only #456 reasons? I'm impressed. ;)

Escalators plain scare me regardless of what's on the feet. I have a friend who fell on an escalator and did severed damage to her knee. And at the local mall a woman died from an escalator accident. Those things are such hazards.

I think it's terrible no one stopped to help though.

 

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