The High Heeled Ruminations Of Melrose Plant

[Shyheels]

My very first day in heels - four inch stiletto knee boots - I thoughtlessly bent over to pick up a flyer somebody had slipped though the mail slot in the front door. I completely forgot to take into account the fact that I was in lofty stilettos and bent over as I usually would and nearly face-planted! Lesson learned!

[pebblesf]

4 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

I have always sucked at doing two things in heels: 1) Walking down stairs. I have never once felt truly graceful doing it, especially if there is more than 3 or 4 of them at a time. 2) Bending over to retrieve dropped objects.

Number Two really hit home the other day when I was out on my morning walk. There was a small branch laying across the sidewalk from an overhanging tree, and as I bent over to pick it up to move it, it suddenly seemed like it was a looooong way to the ground, and I found myself doing a spread-kneed squat to actually pick up the branch. Not graceful at all. I have no problem picking up stuff off the floor in flats, I don't know why it's so much harder for me in heels. Another thing for me to analyze in the future! It may come down to being as simple as that when I'm wearing flats, I don't worry about what I look like, because I know nobody is ever going to notice me anyway.

Going upstairs is easy, downstairs is difficult for sure....Can't really go downstairs without a hand on a railing

[Cali]

Living where the ground is not flat, walking down a steep driveway or across a surface that is slant perpendicular to direction of motion. That compound angle is hard to navigate.  

Edited Monday at 11:48 PM by Cali

[CrushedVamp]

On 2/1/2025 at 2:06 AM, Shyheels said:

And the beauty of boats is that if your neighbours are noisy, nosy or you take a dislike to them, or even if you just want a different view out of your galley window, you just fire up the engine, let go fore and aft, take the tiller and go.

Against, that, of course, is that boats do not appreciate in value ...

Some houses depreciate too, or at least here in the USA they do.

Mobile homes, also called single wides, and double-wides here not only depreciate yearly, but some lending institutions will not loan money on a single or double wide that is over 10 years old.

I buy my houses with cash as I hate having debt, but I will not buy these types of houses because it would mean only cash sales would limit the number of people who could buy them.

And there is no motoring up the canal to get away from crappy neighbors either. 🙂

 

[Shyheels]

Yes that would not be at all attractive. On the other hand there is a very nice bohemian community of water dwellers on the canals, especially amongst us who are continuous cruisers with no permanent mooring.