The issue of Cerebral Palsy can be quite the dilemma on a
day to day basis. The disability always
reminds me that the simple things in life are the most important. My trip to a discount department store was a
rather nerve racking and tiresome experience.
I live in a county within the central Baltimore area. I was
in desperate need of some new shoes due to tearing a hole in the left shoe of
my old pair. I tend to drag my left foot
a little when I walk. My posture in
regards to my left foot is not the greatest in the world. I tend to wear out the big toe area of my
left shoe regardless of which pair I am wearing at the time. The hole was big enough for a finger to touch
my toes without any kind of issue.
I decided to take a
ride up to my local Target store. I
finally reached the store around 5 P.M. one Tuesday evening. I went over to the shoe department only to
realize only a single pair of shoes was in my size. The benches that the store had were extremely
small. I barely had enough room to sit
down let alone struggle with putting on a cramped pair of shoes. I tried getting my right foot into a shoe
first, and could not complete the task whatsoever. I sat in the shoe department for fifteen
minutes trying to get the right shoe on my foot until I finally decided to call
it a day and go home. I might have had
an easier time if the bench I was sitting on had more room, but there was
nothing I could do. I realized that I
should have just purchased shoes online.
I left the store empty handed that evening
This whole ordeal my not seem so huge to some, but it is quite
the mountain when one does not have a solid pair of shoes to wear outside of
the home. Most shoe companies only seem
to cater to those with larger feet. The
experience at my local Target store made me feel like a second class citizen to
some degree. I only hope that things
change for the better in the future.
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