DrHug should be on his way home now. Looks like I will be able to stay up and give him a big ol' Valentine smooch!

I'm gonna tell him John was making fun of his shoes too!
Reminds me of a story! He used to wear Hush Puppies, the ones that were slip on. The flap on the top would flip up sometimes and our girls (young teen and pre teen at the time) called them his nerd shoes!

We were in Idaho with friends who had a nice boat. Our friend pulled the boat up on a beach on the lake. The bow was quite high off the beach and DrHug was standing up there. He noticed his shoe flipped up and for some unknown reason he yelled "Nerd Shoe!"

getting the attention of everyone on the shore (including manly young men and lovely young ladies) and then slipped and launched himself over the railing, scraping the hair off his shin on the way (left a little furrow of hair on the rail), and landed right on his chest on the ground!

Lucky he did not kill himself!!

He was limping for awhile! We of course have had many laughs at his expense!

This was 25 years or so ago and the kids will still every once in a while say Nerd Shoe!! and laugh!