size 12 1/2 

loser ex bought my kids new school shoes. 

i should be happy.  but all he really accomplished was making everything worse.   first, both of my kids wear a size 12 1/2.  he bought them size 10.   ok, i hear you now...not all dads (not even all moms) remember their kids shoe size.  yes. that i agree with.  but here's where it starts to become painful.  

he brought them with him and had them try them on.  

hmmmmmmm.   so, you see...my kids, who would quickly and loudly balk at me if i dared hand them the wrong shoe size to try on, sat there and probably quietly and sweetly forced their tiny feet into those too small shoes and then smiled up at their dad, who they are dying for his attention and even a minute of his attention is worth wearing painful shoes.  

how horrible is that?  

on top of this, he was oblivious to the pain they were in and oblivious to how wrong these shoes were for his children that he bought them and then showed them off to me like they made up for the one hundred thousand dollars that he now owes me in back child support.  that's a one with a bunch of zeros. 

these two sizes too small, fake leather, fake mary jane and gi joe shoes do not make up for five years of non payment.  they do not make up for the heartbreak my children suffer over his lack of attention or love.  they do not make up for his cheating, lying, stealing and ruining of our lives.

when i told my son that i would need to get him new shoes he cried and clung onto his two sizes too small gi joe fake leather sneakers.  luckily i was able to find the exact same ones in the right size and simply traded out his dads shoes with mine.   

no need to tell him.