so much for a running shoe

I finally bought my running shoes today! Saucony Progrid Trigon 5 Guide...


...after 4 months!


Ok, here's the story: I decided on this brand and model mainly because it is one of the selected ones that the VJ PE department is selling, and at a much affordable price than outside. So I told this PE teacher the model of shoes that I wanted to order, with high hopes that I would actually get to save up quite abit. BUT THEN, time and again, when I nudged her about how my order is coming along, she's either saying that the supplier has no stock of this model or the model has been missed.

There was once when she informed me that the shoe has arrived. So with much delight, I went down to VJ on a weekday to make the payment and collect the shoes. To my horror, she showed me a Saucony Phoenix, which was entirely different from what I ordered! And she could even say, 'why don't you try this model? it's better than guide', when I had repeatedly told her that I only wanted the trigon 5 guide shoe and nothing else. I was thinking, how could a teacher be so careless and indifferent to others. Holding back my anger, I subsequently told her to cancel the order and that I might as well buy it outside. In crude words, I was telling her to 'forget it'.

I went back to the same shop at Queensway that I had been to 4 months earlier, and to my pleasure, learned that the price had dropped from around $115 to $97. They were also clearing all the saucony shoes, which I thought was a great opportunity to bargain.
Eventually, I got the shoes at $95, finally.


...FINALLY!