the end of an era.....

before reading this post, please hum queen's "we are the champions" ....got it in your head? it makes reading about the following subject that much more tear-jerking...heart-wrenching...

as most of you know...doug gets attached to things...doesn't like change....could care less if he is in style...he just wants to be comfortable...

enter the nike high tops/air jordan flight....circa 1988....the shoes doug owned when i met him - and they were OLD then...if they could only talk...about the gus macker tourney (yes, he still has that t-shirt, cuz i'm not allowed to throw it away)....the purchase of snowmobiles...a marriage...a couple houses....a couple kids...they're like an old friend.

oh, sure...there have been others...another pair of black nikes, and now black NB'S....but i assure you, nothing...NOTHING have been as comfortable as the blessed nike high-tops....

...and we'll keep on fighting....till the end......cuz we are the champions...we are the champions...OF THE WORLD

and then it happened...doug announced...these are "junk" they're falling apart. i dont think he could even throw them away...he just set them in the garage...ETOD (thats estimated time of death) was 5:46 pm monday, sept. 7, 2009.

i set them by the road with the trash, and actually had a hard time doing it...like i said...they're like old friends...me and the boys watched the trash man toss them in the truck...i said, "look, he doesn't even care about them." dawson says, "yeah, we should have dug 'em a grave out back."

ha ha ha ha .....good bye nikes...we will miss the stories, the comments, the looks that only you could egg on....