February 4, 2013: Tennisandals

This should be a no-brainer: tennis shoes (or as many people seem to pronounce it, 'tenna' shoes), or any other shoe that covers your entire foot, are better than sandals.  However, it seems that people have not thought about this, and continue to choose sandals over safer shoe types. Let's see why they could reconsider.

Tennis shoes, given how they cover the entire foot, prevent your feet from being exposed to the elements as much as sandals do.  Example:  you are walking through an area known to contain many cockleburs.  You have no choice but to make this trek, as something important lies within the area, or perhaps beyond it.  It is also the middle of summer, and the sun is beating down upon you.  You are wearing sandals, as well, and as you walk, your feet are pricked and stuck by the sharp spines of the burs innumerable times, and are subjected to sunburn.  After you've reached your destination, your feet are so sore that you frantically begin to look for a place under some shade to sit.  Had you worn some tennis shoes, you wouldn't be in such a prickly situation, no?