Houston We Have a Problem

Here's a shot of my running shoes from the last few years - minus the ones I've given to my teen boys to fool around in.

Ok so maybe I need to go to SA (shoes anonymous). Are there 12 Step programs for Running Shoe addicts?


1. We admitted we were powerless over running shoes - that our closets had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our shoes could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a Foot Locker employee as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral and physical inventory of our closets.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, the UPS driver and our podiatrist the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all the old shoes from our lives.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings and ugly colored shoes.

8. Made a list of all credit cards and checking accounts we had overdrawn, and became willing to make amends to the banks.

9. Made direct amends to such accounts wherever possible, except when to do so would land us in jail.

10. Continued to take physical inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it and donated excess shoes to the Kenyans.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with a higher power, praying only for knowledge of the perfect running shoe at the best possible price.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to runners at races every where and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Only 12 steps...that won't even take me to the end of my driveway