Crocs are Dumb

I was reading the paper and on the front page of the Colorado section was an article about some "fabulous" new accessory for Crocs. Basically it's little clip on Office Spacesque flare, happy faces, flowers, whatever visual crap you like. These clips were called gibblets or some nonsense.... jibbitz, just looked at the paper again to see what it was really called.

First of all Crocs are the dumbest looking pair of shoes ever. Secondly, Crocs with flare are just one of those ideas that makes me shake my head and think, "What the hell is going on here? Flare for Crocs? Jesus." This is one of those silly ideas that people are going to go ape shit for around here b/c yuppies in Colorado love their Crocs.

This topic reminds me of a time that I was out at a bar in Boulder with friends drinking beers, shooting some pool, and trash talking each other. After I got my ass kicked and was in between games I struck up a conversation with some business casual dude. I don't know what we were talking about, but I looked down and noticed he was wearing gray Crocs. Now, just to back up a bit, this guy was wearing slacks and a businessy jacket so, in my opinion and maybe I'm just insane, but the Crocs didn't really seem to go with the whole "look" he was going for, or maybe it was....???

Anyway, when I noticed the Crocs I said something to the effect of "uhhh Crocs. Those are the ugliest shoes" (I'm pretty blunt for good or bad). This guy then whips off one of the shoes and starts going on about how wonderful they are. "Just touch it" he says. "They are so light and comfortable." I waved him off and said, "No thanks I'm good" or something like that. It was unfortunate that I brought attention to the Crocs anyway b/c he just went on and on about those damn Smurf feet looking shoes. Now this guy is certain to be one of the first to sport the jibbitz.