You are probably wondering what those have in common.
Well, let me tell you about this morning. Sitting in my conference room at my conference room table, i stood up to go get a snack. As soon as I did that, my flip flop came apart. I thought to myself: “Wow, that’s weird. I guess i’ll just have to put my flip flop back together.” I looked at my flip flop, and it had completely broke. The little rubber piece holding the flip flop strap to the sole, broke right in half.
I was very distraught. Here i was, sitting here at my conference room table, 15 minutes from heading to lunch, and i didn’t have a working flip flop. Worse yet, it was raining outside, so it would be really awkward walking barefoot to my car and then through Old Navy.
So, I thought to myself: “hey, i can probably rig something up Macgyver style with a safety pin to hold these together to get me to old navy to buy a $2 replacement pair.”
I rifled through my bag — no safety pin.
“What’s this?” I thought. “A tooth pick? I could totally use this to fix these Macgyver style.”
So, I spent about 5 minutes trying to stick a toothpick through the piece of crappy old navy rubber to hold the rubber strap to the botton of the flip flop. It worked. Although, wasn’t very strong. I then saw a keyring in my computer bag. “This would totally work!” I thought to myself. So, I spent another 7 minutes trying to thread my flip flop into my key ring.
Laugh all you want, It worked.
I then went limping (because i didn’t want to chance breaking my flip flops again) to my car to go to Old Navy to buy another pair of $2 flip flops that would break in a couple months. I drove to Old Navy, and then limped into the store all the way to the sparse flip flop section (because, apparently, no one needs new flip flops in the fall in Michigan). I picked up a pair of black flip flops to match my outfit (because your outfit has to match, right?). I then limped over to the cash register. When I got in line, I realized that I had picked up blue flip flops instead (in my defense, they were dark blue!). So I limped back to the sparse flip flop section and realized there were no black flip flops!
What was I to do? Well, my outfit had to match, so I limped (because, again, i didn’t want to be stuck w/o footwear in the rain) over to TJ Maxx, which is right next door. I limped to the men’s clothing section instead of the footwear section (because for some reason i didn’t think they would keep flip flops in the footwear section). I found a pair of flip flops (in the clothing section — not the footwear section. Can someone explain this to me?) that were not only black (to match), but were the same kind as my pair of brown flip flops that I bought (for $15) for my honeymoon 2.5 years ago — which I love AND have lasted way longer than my $2 old navy flip flops. And I got them on sale for $10 — my wife will be happy. 
Now, for all of you who are crazy and do not wear flip flops all year around, I don’t want to hear it. For everyone else, TJ Maxx in Novi has some great pairs of $10, black, Oneill flip flops.