Sandals
Tis the season for parents nationwide to buy sandals for their children, as evidenced by the lack of sandals in any of the shoe shops and departments of a suitable size for Euan. But therein lies the problem, what is a suitable size for Euan?
Going to the Clarks shop in Mothercare World in Watford and they measured Euan’s feet using some electronic thing at a child’s 10.5. John Lewis on the other hand measured his feet manually and came up with 9.5!
Louise took Euan back to Clarks in Mothercare World and got them to measure his feet manually at which point the sales assistant stated that he’d never used the manual measuring device before. Now this, in my opinion, is diabolical. With something is important is the growth of a child’s feet you would expect Clarks’/Mothercare’s staff to be trained to measure feet properly. Clearly the electronic device is measuring feet 1 or even 2 sizes too big, but even if it was accurate what would they do if it didn’t work? Measured manually the sales assistant measured his feet at 9.5 on one foot and 10 on the other!
Whatever the size though, you can’t get a decent pair of kids sandals in Watford for love nor money!