There is one great and mysterious thing that happens in the lives of little boys all across the country - it’s the phenomena called the “New Sneaker Syndrome.”
You all know exactly what I am talking about. When a little boy gets a new pair of shoes, what happens? THEY CAN RUN FASTER I remember trying to coerce Mom into buying new shoes because I needed to run faster. And it seemed like the whiter the shoes were - the faster you could run.
I remember sneaking and putting on my new shoes to go out and play ball in the yard because I needed to run faster while we were playing wiffle ball. And man could I run with those new shoes But as time passed, and the newness of the shoes wore off. I noticed that I soon returned to the same slow speed.