A Pair Of Justin Boots And A Warm Night
I love evenings in the summer. Let’s face it, who doesn’t like them? Now there’s northerners who do like the full change of seasons and the cold, but you can’t beat a hot summer night in Texas. When I was much younger, our little gang used to ride our bicycles into town and just hang around the side of the creek that ran through the middle of town.
There was five of us, doing nothing but hanging out together, and loving every minute of it. School was out for the summer, our chores were done for the day, it was just time for us. On this one particular night in July, I must have been 14, not old enough to drive, but old enough to be into girls, a tall, well built guy in his thirties was walking on the sidewalk hand and hand with a women about the same age.
I remember this so vividly because we all stopped and nobody said a word until they were around the corner and completely out of site. I remember thinking to myself how great it must be to have a beautiful girl walk beside you like that. Because the way I looked at fourteen, there was no girls looking for me. ”I’m going to marry a girl like that someday,” I said. After that remark, my buddies tossed me to the ground and told me to wake up from dreaming.
There were many nights when I did dream about that. What’s strange is that I remember specifically what this guy was wearing, particularly his boots. It was those Justin cowboy boots that captured my attention because they added height to him which is why he looked so tall to me at the time.
Now I’m all grown up, in my thirties, and sometimes on those warm evenings, I’ll just throw on a tee shirt, a pair of blue jeans, and my trusty pair of Justin boots. Whenever I do, I always remember the vision of that guy and that girl, walking hand in hand down the street on that warm July evening. I just can’t believe that a thirty second event, something that happened so long ago, can affect my thoughts for the rest of my life. And because of it, I’m a lifelong customer of the whole darn Justin Boot line.
