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    Oh, Denise, thanks a lot for telling me about the Jibbitz...Now I have $25 worth of Jibbitz coming from eBay, including a flamingo, geckos, angelfish, clown fish, and flowers...
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    Oh no. Now I've just found out you can put on different straps, with holes to hold MORE Jibbitz!!
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    Hi Everyone!

    Nanci I can't wait to see your Crocs when you've got them dressed up in jibbitz!!
    I checked on ebay & saw that they have a "bicycle" jibbitz...

    Check out this site: http://www.jibbitz.com/

    Ha, that's all we need -- more straps for the jibbitz !

    I'm sure you can, but I thought I'd ask..... You can wear these cycling, can't you?? I've worn my Teva sandles.

    Hope everyone is having a great evening.

    Denise


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    I just felt I should mention that I read a news story a few months ago about how quite a few women and children were getting foot/toe injuries from their Crocs getting caught in escalators. Apparently the soft rubber easily gets pulled into the cracks. Please be careful to keep your feet away from all the edges of escalator steps and step off carefully- And warn your kids about this.
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    Thanks, Lisa!

    I'm a believer, because once my son (6 at the time) got his Nike hi-top caught in an escalator in a JCPenney store. He was two steps up from me, and I had his 4 yo brother on my back, and shopping bags hanging from both arms. As I saw what was about to happen when he reached the top, I leaped the remaining 4 steps, piggyback-kid and all, slipped the bags off my right arm, stretched out and grabbed his arm at the armpit and lifted him off the escalator, just as he neared those scary teeth at the top.

    I've never felt such an adrenaline rush before or since. Adrenaline was the only explanation for being able to make that leap, loaded down as I was, and pick him up with one arm, with the escalator holding his foot.

    His shoe was built like a Converse All-star, with the rubber cap on the toes and the thick rubber edge. Just the short time it was pinched between the sidewall and the steps gouged the rubber edge on the top and bottom clean through, and his little toe was being pulled in. I can't imagine what an escalator would do to a Crock shoe.

    Thankfully his toes weren't damaged. I held it together long enough to get the manager to give us (I was a low-income single mother at the time) a new pair of shoes (because those were his school shoes that I had just bought and it could have been a lot worse and cost the store a lot more). And then when we got in the car, I burst into tears. ::whew:::

    Karen

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    I don't know about the crocks getting caught in escalators. But crocs were intorduced to me before they became the in thing. My friend who had been diagnosed with MS found them on a trip to Boulder (where they were first sold). They have really helped him a lot! The lightness of them has made it easier for him to walk. And I have a friend who is a Dr and she wears them and says when she does surgary (her don't have the holes) her feet stay very comfy. I just got diagnosed with Morton's nueroma and read the croc's are good for people with Morton's. I have a pair of the sandles which I like very much but my favorites are the flip flops! My dh thought I was crazy to spend that much on flip flops. But I can wear them all day doing all sorts of stuff and my feet do not get tired or sore in them. I loooooovvvve them! And recommend them highly!
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    I personally don't like these things, they don't fit me at all and I don't like the way they look. However I recently returned from a trip to Puerto Vallarta and was very surprised to find a Crocs store down there. Since they originated literally 1,000 yards from where my husband works, I thought it was kind of cool that they had migrated all the way down to Mexico, even if it was in a totally Americanized tourist city. I still think of it as supporting local business because they are local to me. (Same with Izze soda, which I DO love!)
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