Current Events > remember having Payless shoes in middle school was a death sentence

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Shaqs lmao

Only the rich kids had Payless. The rest of us had Walmart. K-Mart before Walmart hit the area.
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middle school was more drama filled than high school

i grew up before people had a weird ass obsession with sneakers

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I don't remember shoe elitism, this must be a poor people town thing
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PowerOats posted...

middle school was more drama filled than high school

By a long shot. The reason TV portrays high school this way is because kids' media is always set one level older than the audience. Kids for babies, middle school for elementary school, high school for middle school. Then they focus on problrms relatable foe the tsrget audience.
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The first real bout of shoe elitism we had in middle school were those white Adidas superstars with the different color stripes.
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Yeah I remember that. It was a big deal to have brands like Nike or addidas.

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I don't remember any kids giving a shit about shoes in my school. Well unless you got those shoes with the shit on the sides/toe that changes colors when you poke at it, then you were pretty popular for about a week.
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I is smart posted...

I don't remember any kids giving a shit about shoes in my school. Well unless you got those shoes with the shit on the sides/toe that changes colors when you poke at it, then you were pretty popular for about a week.

Goo shoes >
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At least half the kids wore rubber slippers in middle school.
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I had trash shoes and nobody cared.
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lol back in my day it was the timbos. with the label still on the little chain. i feel like such a tool now. -_-
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I had some knockoff Airwalks in 4th grade that had a "P" instead of an "A", and kids made fun of me for wearing "Pillow walks"

PowerOats posted...

middle school was more drama filled than high school

amen to that, by HS most people stopped giving a shit

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

I had trash shoes and nobody cared.

This. No one even talked about shoes. In fact for a minute it was a fad for us to change shoes when we hit to school. To the point it got ridiculous and I was wearing some chicks...those shoes that are on an elevating block >_>. I don't think they're called high heels but they're similar but way bulkier everywhere. Anyway yeah....it was a small school
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

This. No one even talked about shoes.

I should clarify that if you had the badass light-up shoes, or like, the ones with the skates in the bottom? You were a pretty cool kid.

But having bad shoes didn't make you uncool.
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Gobstoppers12 posted...

I should clarify that if you had the badass light-up shoes, or like, the ones with the skates in the bottom? You were a pretty cool kid.

I had something called "Ooze Shoes" that had color-changing goop in them

Needless to say, they were a hit

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

This. No one even talked about shoes.

I should clarify that if you had the badass light-up shoes, or like, the ones with the skates in the bottom? You were a pretty cool kid.

But having bad shoes didn't make you uncool.

Lol. Light up shoes in mid school >_>
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

This. No one even talked about shoes.

I should clarify that if you had the badass light-up shoes, or like, the ones with the skates in the bottom? You were a pretty cool kid.

But having bad shoes didn't make you uncool.

Lol. Light up shoes in mid school >_>

Those were still cool until at LEAST Sophomore year in high school.
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We were all on free and reduced lunch plans but wore Jordans. I remember this nerdy white dude wore Jordans once, I guess it was to fit in, and we roasted him mercilessly.
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Flockaveli posted...

We were all on free and reduced lunch plans but wore Jordans.

i no rite? Kids can't afford lunches but have designer clothes and backpacks...

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

This. No one even talked about shoes.

I should clarify that if you had the badass light-up shoes, or like, the ones with the skates in the bottom? You were a pretty cool kid.

But having bad shoes didn't make you uncool.

Lol. Light up shoes in mid school >_>

Those were still cool until at LEAST Sophomore year in high school.

Hmm. Crazy. Definitely wasn't the case around here. I was in middle school when everyone wanted to be skaters so I think skater shoes were pretty common. I still wear skater company shoes today cause the padding and fit is easily my perfered
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Where do people learn to be asshats who care about shoes
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No one really cared about what shoes you wore at my school. There were certainly styles that were popular, but no one cared if yours were knockoffs. Birkenstock clogs were huge for a while as an example.

konokonohamaru posted...

Where do people learn to be asshats who care about shoes

almost every woman ever, they buy that shit just to make other women in the office jealous.
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Flockaveli posted...

We were all on free and reduced lunch plans but wore Jordans. I remember this nerdy white dude wore Jordans once, I guess it was to fit in, and we roasted him mercilessly.

I almost bought a pair of Iverson Answer 5s when they first dropped, but wisely decided against it. Another chubby white kid like me made that mistake and he got ripped a new one

That was the case at my school. Middle and working class kids had Vans & Chuck Taylor's (Converse). Rich kids (or those pretending to be) had Nike and Addidas. There was one kid who had two pairs of Nikes. He was of course the coolest kid in school.

I shake my head at what they charge for Vans and Chuck Taylor's nowadays.
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