So he's only three-and-a-half, but he is cantankerous! We (me, him and my girl) went to her swimming lesson on Saturday morning and then to the Clark's shoe shop.
By the time we got to the shop he was quite tired, and by the time somebody bothered to serve us (got gazzumped by some woman wishing to exchange a pair of shoes) he was beside himself.
So my girl gets measured and they don't have any school shoes in her size!??? And then he's measured and they don't have any shoes (Doodles) in his size either!!!! And he apparently doesn't want Doodles, he wants new trainers (which he doesn't need) and is a royal pain in the bum during the failed try on session - howling the place down. Eventually we cut our losses, buying nothing but leaving our number for them to ring us when they've got stock in.
Come Sunday morning, a phone call - they've got both kids' shoes in! Hurray, so I tell them and the girl's up for it - and so is the boy(?!) except he's still talking about trainers. So in the afternoon we go, she tries her's on, they fit and she's happy. Now the fun... because the assistant brings out the wrong pair of Doodles (wanted green with bugs on, not blue and stripey). Oh dear I think and tell her that these are wrong. She says oh it'll take a little while to get the others, I don't care/mind because he doesn't really need these yet. But she says try them on. So he does. No screaming abdabs. "Never mind" he says, "we can get the others tomorrow". And that's it he wants these blue ones and wont take them off his feet.
So I buy both pairs, he makes sure the assistent puts his (old) trainers in the box and a bag for him and the job's a good 'un. We can go home after a simple, pleasant shopping experience. I needed to remind myself that this was the same boy that went purple not 24 hours previously...
