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Well, I can say without fear of losing face, I’ve never seen an in-door Target store.
There’s a fair number of them that have occupied anchor locations in malls, and therefore have indoor entrances. I’ve been to two, myself.
I can honestly say as well I’ve never seen one of them either.
A Target is being put into a corner position at South Hills Village near Pittsburgh and should be opening soon.
I have been in plenty of Targets but I have never been inside a Walmart in my life.
Who wants to be in a Mart that sells walls? Unless you’re a contractor…
About as many people as want to get tar.
Hey, don’t knock /get .tar
Linux users do it quite often.
(Haha I made a Linux joke.)
I have never seen in a Target, nor a Wallmart. Actually, before reading Willis’ comics, I didn’t even knew that there was such thing as a store chain called Target.
It was confusing when Ethan was searching for toys.
There are Targets here in Australia but as of yet, no Walmarts but frankly we already have things like K-Mart, Big-W, Myer and David Jones, so there is no need.
There used to be a JC Penney in that spot in College Mall. Target was a stand-alone but in the same parking lot as the mall, very close. The JC Penney closed down several years back, Target moved into JC Penney’s spot (with a massive remodel, the JC Penney had been two stories, the new Target is one), and they razed the building that had been the Target.
College Mall has changed drastically over the last few years. I was shocked when I made a visit home in 2011 and went over there with my mom. The mall had always struggled with occupancy. Their solution was to knock down a bunch of walls for fewer, larger stores. There is even a tiny food court now (four restaurants) when there wasn’t before. It will be interesting to see what happens to the mall again when Sears inevitably shuts down.
Here in L.A. it’s almost a faux pas to have a mall WITHOUT a Target. The Fox Hills mall has one that’s entirely indoors – no direct outside entrances whatsoever!
In LA do they pronounce it “tar-ZHAY”?
In Portland OR, the city Target is set into the bottom of one of their tall buildings. You have to go into a lobby then upstairs to get to it.
She didnt notice the velcro before?
She didn’t notice Walky’s velcro shoes because Walky didn’t have velcro shoes.
If only he wore velcro in the first place, he would still have his shoes.
If Walky had Velcro shoes, would he actually close them instead of leaving them untied – or, I guess, “unlatched?” Because if so, he should really get those. Untied shoes seem hazardous at the best of times. With Mike as a roommate, doubly so.
I was very sad when I had to stop wearing the velcro shoes I had managed to find in my size because they were too old and shabby
I may be 22, but man, velcro makes Everything (except pants) better. I need to find a good new pair like them that will last longer.
They make shoes that aren’t slip on?
Yes, they’re called velcro. I know there are those funny rope-like types, but no one really WEARS them, right?
I wear them, but I never untie them. That technically counts as slip on right >.>
Yes.
Decorated with Pokemon. Or was he a Digimon kid?
Aglets are baby ags. They subsist chiefly on the milky excrescence of the mother ag until they can be weaned onto the husks of small, clinging plant seeds that form the caloric base of the adult ag diet. Duh!
ack, i missed.
What’s wrong with Velcro, Dotty? You know that shoelaces are bullshit, right?
Shoe laces are made evil devil snakes.
Especially aglets. Those sinister aglets.
While velcro is a product of alien origin… apparently.
See, aliens do exist. Eat that Scully.
Well, as we all know, the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.
Their true purpose is sinister.
Taking out eyeballs?
Aglets are to your laces like Telomeres are to your DNA.
Is that a Star Trek reference?
(The Enterprise series, I believe – my personal favorite, in terms of the ship-interior set designs being [somewhat?] more realistic.)
God damn showlaces! The ones on my boots keep getting undone whenever I go faster than a brisk walk, but whenever I come home with a pressing need to hit the bathroom they suddenly become a pain to undo! DAMN YOU LACES!
You need to undo your laces to pee? Not quite picturing the anatomy involved…
I CAN picture the anatomy, and I really wish I couldn’t.
if ur mum is not cool about mud in the home, you gotta ditch the boots in the mud-room, which is often not equipped for peein’
Is this a weird OCD thing, or a lame giant penis joke?
The poster might be from the frozen white north (as I am). Walking into your house with your boots on in the winter is a recipe for a) wet floors to clean up, and b) falling on your backside.
Strangely, boots aren’t made for gripping wet hardwood!
In many places it is cosume to take off your shoes before entering the main part of the house. Helps keeping a clean floor.
Needing to pee and not being able to undo your laces would be bad for keeping the floor clean…
Fair enough, we don’t get much snow in South Carolina. But if you do capture a spectacular wipeout on video you could make $10k on tv.
I never tie my shoes. I just tie them up when I firt get them and slip my feet in and out of them.
So do I.
Same here.
Thirded!
As do I.
I do this as well when I can’t find shoes that have velcro in
my size.
Once I tried to tie a velcro thingy from an older pair of ruined sandals to a pair of laced shoes. …it didn’t work, so now I do this too.
Isn’t that how they’re intended to work in the first place?
Velcro underwear. Velcro socks. Velcro pacemakers.
Velcro shoes, Velcro condoms, Velcro sword.
A velcro sword, hmmmm…..
GAS POWERED VELCRO!!!
Velcro revolver.
Velcro laces… oh the irony.
Velcro chainsaw.
Velcron: The Velcro Mecha.
Velcro hair-removal.
Velcro Shoe Laces.
Go-go gadget velcro!
ZZ Top says, “Do the Velcro Fly!”
Velcro Masters: The unreleased Transformers toy-line.
Victor Velcro.
Velcro velcro.
Velcro toupee.
If you do it right it looks like you have a close haircut if it flies off.
Velcro toilet paper.
Velcro makes everything (except pants!) better!
Can’t have gas powered, gotta go green.
Sure can be gas powered and green – like green salsa and re-fried beans. Like totally green.
Hooked, for nobody’s pleasure.
“Hey Joyce! I finally bought shoes without velcro!”
Joyce looks up to Heaven in her prayer, “Thank you!”
“Instead, my shoes are made of Nachitos!” :p
It’s “characters being surprised by things they probably should expect by now” week here at Dumbing of Age.
I’m saying these two aren’t going to work out now.
It’s a college relationship, of course it won’t work out. But I don’t necessarily think that his immaturity is guaranteed to ruin it. It’s a stressor, but Dorothy might realize that in the long run, it’s good to compromise. The real question is if Walky will realize the same thing.
That’s not very true. I’ve seen many a college and even High School relationship work out and I’m only 23. Two of my co-workers from Chick-Fil-A are College Sweethearts and got married, my cousin and his fiancee are college sweethearts and are getting married in June, my dad and mom were college sweethearts and worked out (trust me, it’s a crazy relationship to this day, lol), a friend from church met her husband Freshman year at U.C. 5 years ago and they got married back in October, my pastors daughter also met her husband in college……I think you get the point.
Marriage does not equate to a relationship working out. That’s about as close as having a child will ‘fix’ a relationship. I may be wrong, and those you mentioned will make it past the dreaded ‘7 year’ mark, but so far, the only one you mentioned that has worked so far is your parents. My parents as well, for that matter.
The only cons with velcro is that they are kinda noisy when you undo them and that things like grass seeds get caught in them, otherwise, they’re a lot better than laces.
It’s worse when you get sand in ’em. (Experiences with sandals) Impossible to clean out for weeks on end, lemme tell you.
Hear hear! I never understood why people were so down on Velcro shoes.
Let me tell you, these damn laces are a constant annoyance that Velcro never was.
I have a pair of terradactyls and they have velcro adjustable straps. Best things ever – especially if a foot swells due to some mishap. I have hiked, canoed and portaged around or walked through rapids, cycled, swam and climbed a mountain in them – I do not recommend the mountain climbing part – and they have given me traction when I needed it and still let my big sweaty feet breath. Again, to reiterate, mountain climbing is not a good idea >_> sharp rocks are sharp.
>mountain climbing without boots
I gave up on velcro shoes in high school. I got way too much crap for it even though they are superior to laced shoes in every way.
First the pajama pants and now velcro shoes; Walky’s wardrobe is progressively devolving right before our eyes.
I never understood the hate over velcro.
Those shoelace cultists! The wanted to unleash the horror of aglets on the unsuspecting masses.
Velcro is a) incredibly bulky compared to shoelaces and as such ruins the profile of a shoe and b) pointlessly simplifying something one should be proficient at by the time one is ten years old.
I said profile, I meant silhouette.
I have wanted velcro shoes for a very long time. I pick out my shoes based on how easy they are to get on my feet because sometimes I have to leave the house in a hurry.
I tie my shoes once and then just cram my feet in and out after that. It is my compromise with adulthood.
As does a fair number of your readership from the look of things.
DUDE! I’ve been doing that for years! There are very few times I’ll untie my shoes after having tied them. I’d say I’ve been doing that since I were about 7 or 8 and I’ll be 24 in less than a month, February 9th. Annoyed my parents like crazy too. They always tried to get me to untie my shoes before putting them on, but it didn’t work.
I’m with you there! I don’t think I’ve ACTUALLY tied my shoes in months.
You young people today are so lazy….
I wear sandals myself unless shoes must be worn, in which case I have a pair of black boots that look nice. That’s my compromise, mostly with the broken glass rather then adulthood though. Much rather walk without shoes at all.
It is weird because I always thought I was the only one that did this. I prefer to have slip on shoes, but they never last that long compared to ties shoes for some reason.
I have a pair of dress slip-on style shoes that are older than some readers here. Quality is not reflected in style though good quality shoes are not always stylish to say the least but they are out there.
You shouldn’t be surprised by this, Dorothy. You know his fashion sense by now.
I always found that velcro was only a short-term solution to keeping your sandals/shoes snug, as the strip with the loopy-ends tends to deteriorate with age, until you are left with a mess of unvelcroable fluff.
On the other hand, sandals with clips tend to pinch your skin when you clip them too fast.
What I’m trying to say is, Sierra has it right.
Theory: Sierra’s an earth-bender.
Addendum: Mike is a mom-bender.
Insert pun about nickel here
I wear Velcro. Feels good, man
I’m still waiting for Dotty to realize the first thing out of Walky’s mouth is his honest opinion, whether it’s a terrible one or a brilliant one. In this case, it is utterly brilliant. Who wants to deal with laces? The laces break far too frequently.
Don’t give in, Walky. I’ve seen this process before. Soon she’ll be picking all your clothes. You’ll be wearing nice button shirts and slacks. SLACKS, I TELL YA!
And then, Ties! Not just any Ties but Ties from Tieland.
This looks like a job for Vin Moosk!!!
Where Moosk goes, ties get the butt-kicking.
Truly he is the greatest adult.
Wierd as that earlier comment on velcro and aliens …. I read a report that stated that velcro was a development of alien tech. found aboard the downed saucer in NM…among other things.
Why not?
I’m a member of the ‘tie the shoe once so it fits, then stuff the feet in ever after, club” myself.
Watch Enterprise. T’Pol’s GG grandmother got stranded on earth in the 1950’s (no time travel involved) and sold some velcro items to a business man to get enough money to send a boy she befriended to college. So yeah… Velcro’s a Vulcan invention.
VELCRO IS FRICKING HOOKS AND STRANDS. Dear GOD I hate the people who think velcro is such a magical invention that only aliens could come up with it. DX
Yeah, not pointing out you guys specifically; I just hate that episode of Enterprise and stupid conspiracy theories like that. XD
I’m fairly certain that most people aren’t being serious when they mention the velcro/alien thing… now Silly Putty on the other hand is pure Area 53.
That’s two more than 51!
Exactly, everybody knows about Area 51, that’s why it’s just a decoy for Area 53.
I still like to imagine that that whole story wast T’pol testing the credulity of her crewmates.
Hate to rain on your rant but not all velcro is just hooks and strands. Some of the industrial varieties are very very different. One type I have used in the past is designed to mate with any other piece. Instead of hooks it is the equivalent of mushroom headed pins … and its made of steel… very strong but not forgiving.
But velcro was invented in the forties by some swiss dude, while he was busy ignoring world war two.
If you can get your foot out, how can it possibly be snug enough to call ‘fitting’?
Leverage. Shove the other foot into the back of the heel and yank.
I use one of those “IKEA” shoe-on thingies that look like a snake.
Easy on the back and on the shoe and hides in the umbrella stand that everything but umbrellas in it.
I do believe that you mean a shoehorn.
I’ve generally been 100% on Dorothy’s side in any argument but now she has completely lost my sympathy.
Velcro shoes are like hoodies for feet.
Ooohh… Then you’re really not going to like tomorrow’s comic.
I’m less shocked at the fact that Walky wants velcro shoes than I am at the fact that Dorothy still doesn’t get that Walky is a man-child – a 7-year old in an 18-year old’s body.
They’re going to Target? No Payless nearby with a Bogo sale?
And hey.. Velcro rox! Anything created by Vulcan’s is awesome! I’ve got 2 pair of Velcro shoes. Rest of my shoes are slip on. I’ve never gotten the hang of shoe laces. Heck I didn’t learn to tie my shoes till I was like 8…
This is why Dorothy can’t buy Walky nice things!
Wait, that came out wrong…
I think you might have got it right the first time.
Yeah, good luck finding appealing velcro shoes in adult sizes. Unless Walky can wear kids sizes. Which maybe he can? He seems pretty small…
They do make shoes with velcro in adult sizes ….. for those with arthritis, palsy, etc. Not having full use of the hands/fingers kinda makes laces a frustrating nighmnare.
Didn’t mean to say they don’t make them. Just good luck finding them. I have enough trouble finding tie up shoes I like. The velcro selection is tremendously smaller.
Why not just use sandals? They are efficient in almost any environment!
Except for cold ones.
Then you must train your feet!
Agreed. I even wear crocs with vent holes in the winter without socks. Unless it’s windy or a bunch of snow gets in, it’s not really that bad.
crocs are the worse invention man has ever created.
Except the kind of crocs that man didn’t invent. Those are awesome, though I wouldn’t want to stick my foot into the opening of one.
Unless you are going to enter the MPFC Olympics event “Being Eaten by a Crocodile”
No, that would be the auto-tuner.
well, for one, they’re Canadian. two, I’m Canadian. three, they are rather comfy to wear. four, they are better than those feet things.
Walky, shoelaces are BS. Wear what you want.
Based on the number of velcro shoes I see on a daily basis, I conclude that the commenters on this comic are not at all representitive of society. Most likley, they are all over 65 years old.
You kids today and your Millennium Items, and your card games, and your You kids these days loud music and your hula hoops and your hopscotch and your dungarees and your lollipops and your Sony Playstations and your voice-activiated light switches and your leather pants and your artificial insemination and your Blu-Ray Discs and your pierced scrotumsAnd your bullfrogs and you telekinesis and your web comics and your shortpacked!.com and your nuclear physics and your ingrowing toe nails and your gears of war and your David Willis and your power steering and your Elevators and your alternate universes….
I know velcro isn’t too popular IRL but I still never understood the hate towards them.
There’s a perception that you would only need velcro if you were incapable of tying your shoes, which is something taught at a young age. Hence it’s considered “childish” to want velcro instead pf laced shoes.
You know, putting it that way, it seems kind of stupid, as if it’s “mature” to make things difficult just because you can. Like some sort of childish merit badge we carry from kindergarten on.
By that measure, using a toilet instead of a diaper is equally pretentious.
Well, it’s generally agreed that there are a few practical benefits that toilet use has over diapers. Unless you’re *really* bad at wiping, anyway.
Lacing shoes sort of lacks that edge. Unless you’re really bad at velcro.
Spoken like someone who has never had to change a diaper before.
Or date someone who insists upon velcro shoes.
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I wasn’t aware they made velcro shoes for adult sized feet.
They make everything, if you want it, it exists.
Immortality devices please.
We have two models: a word processor and a punctured prophylactic. Which would you prefer?
I got my 3-D printer working on that.
http://sasshoes.com/main/view_styles.php?catid=1&prodid=46
They (and styles like those) are pretty much for old people and people with diabetes and stuff, but they exist.
I have worn mostly velcro in my life, walmart carries the adult sizes. It’s a bit tricky to get an 11 1/2 W specifically, but I manage to find ’em when I need new shoes.
I…I wear Velcro shoes.
Then again I also have a year old dog who likes to attack shoes and undo laces.
I’m 36 and I just got my first pair of lacing shoes in over a decade. My wife noticed how much I hate tying them a little ways into our relationship and its been all slip-ons and Velcro since at her blessing. These current shoes were a gift from someone else, so it’s leavem tied for me for a while.
They’re both wearing red shirts into Target! I detect the start of some hi-jinx!
Everyone wears red in Bloomington, so I don’t think it’s that big of an issue there.
The only time it doesn’t pay to wear a red shirt is if you live in the ST:TOS universe.
or in colorado during a college foot ball game.
Ask any Nebraska fan
The only Velcro shoes I’ve seen that fit adult feet are the granny slipper ones….
Really? Nobody else here uses Velcro?
I wear velcro. I used to wear laces, complete with the putting-my-shoes-on-is-a-production and the not infrequent broken laces (I don’t wear my shoes loose enough that they can fall off without unlacing), but then I started spending a lot of time with a friend who wanted me to take my shoes off every time I came into his house, and after a while he pointed out that velcro was a sensible approach for day-to-day shoes worn in situations like that. And he was right. There is no damn reason to rely on literally prehistoric closure technology in this day and age when there is a better solution. There are absolutely zero benefits to laces, other than that some morons think they look better.
The annoying thing was, while I had no problem finding good casual and dress shoes with velcro while I lived in Vegas, now that I’m out in Boise, I can’t even find a decent velcro tennis shoe, much less anything that wouldn’t get me an askance look at a funeral. It seems the hicks out here haven’t caught on to intelligent footwear.
You have surprisingly strong feelings on velcro…
It’s mostly the result of the aforementioned annoyance at not being able to find decent velcro shoes in this entire town, even having gone to dedicated shoe stores. What started out as a casual shopping trip became a mission! And a failure, blast it!
Why not just buy shoes that just slip on like dolly shoes or loafers?
I like my shoes to be pretty snug. The idea is that when they’re on, they stay on with no risk of slipping off.
Yeah, I know, I seem to have an answer to everything. Yes, I could go with slip-ons or back to laces, paying the price of reduced snugness or taking three times as long to put on respectively. But I don’t want to, and at the moment am making due with inferior velcro shoes that don’t keep their shape well because of it. And honestly, is it that demanding to want decent velcro shoes to be available to us uncultured folks who prefer them?
STEEL TOES ALL THE WAY. But if I found good steel toes that had velcro, I might try them.
As long as crocs aren’t involved, Walky and Dorothy’s relationship should be fine.
Will we finally see what this arc is about?
STAY TUNED TRUE BELIEVERS!
Next he’ll want his feet massaged just to help break in a new pair
I wear toe shoes. Velcro, laces… Nah… Get Vibrams.
>Be a 21 year old female
>Have velcro shoes
Doing it wrong apparently.
I wear ankle-boot things with vertical zips, incidentally. I do not feel nostalgia for the period in which I used laced shoes because no nearby shoe stores sold velcro in my size anymore (due to growing feet).
Dorothy’s laughter is all the more obnoxious for that there’s no malice in it. Not the cruel master who despises and wishes to torment the slave, but the kind-hearted master who genuinely thinks it funny that the slave thinks it’s people.
That ‘correctness’ is taken as assumed (‘guaranteed superiority’)… it’s interesting to compare to Joyce’s state. –By which point I would be remiss if I didn’t also draw the comparison with Walky’s views on masculinity.
Very enjoyable when characters are successfully called out on these things.
They’re just shoes dude, Dorothy has done nothing than needs her to be “Called out on”
If they weren’t the same age I’d swear he’s eight and she’s his mother.
Oh wait, you were serious, allow me to laugh even harder.
HAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHHA
I wear velcro or step-ins, because, like many autistic people, I have neuro-motor issues that kept me from ever learning to tie my shoes.