That.....is the very reason I tell my kids not to throw their gum out in parking lots. It ticks me off when I step in something like that.

I thought you were going to say you bought a pair of flip flops (they were NEVER thongs in NY)at the grocery.

I have a really nice pair that I got at the supermarket!

I have always been a big fan of thongs until my last vacation when I bought a pair that scraped all the skin from between my toes.

Thank God the beer was ok!

As long as the beer was ok, it's all good :)

Thank you. I was having a 'not so nice' day and your post made me laugh out loud and delicately spit hot pot on my PC (where are my tissues?). Luckily for me, in Australia flip-flops ARE thongs, and thongs are called g-strings. Pity the poor guitar players!

I remember when they were 'thongs'. I think it was about the same era as Boston on 8-track.

Over here they are 'rubbah slippahs' or just slippers. But I have a feeling you shouldn't be wearing any footwear with "slipper" in the name. :)

You? Fell?? Gosh, that's so hard to believe... : )

Hey, as another flip-flop afficianado, let me give you a hint. Birkenstock flip-flops. They are called "Gizehs", and while they are more expensive than normal flippy-floppy kind of shoes, they last forever. I have a pair I have worn for six years and only now have to have the footbeds replaced.

They are good for your feet, they last forever and they come in really cool colors and styles.

Flip-flops for the ages.

I am sooooo old. We used to call them zories. That's the noise they make when you walk! Then then went to thongs, then another name, then flip flops.

Bring back the zorie! Well, maybe if we start with zorie, thong will end up being THE word!

*L* I still catch myself calling them "thongs," until my daughter gives me "that look!"

We still call them thongs here in Australia.

Underwear like that is called a g-string

I thought I was the only one who called them thongs. Like back in the day they had the flat ones and then the thicker ones with the rainbow colors on the side. We used to get a new pair every summer before we went camping for the week. Lake Camanche. Good times. The Go-go's were just becoming popular. We used to go with my Dad's best friend from High School who had a daughter, Dina, she was gorgeous, this tall blonde Italian girl, she was my best friend. We used to play the Grease soundtrack on the 8 track over and over untill it broke.
All because of thongs. Thanks for the flood of memories.

We used to call them "snippies" because of the snip-snip sound they make when you walk!

If I worked at that store I'd make a funny little video collage of all of your falls and send it in to America's Funniest Home Videos! LOL! ;)

I do call them flip-flops, and I don't remember ever calling them anything else. lol

As Margaret said previously in australia we wear thongs not flip flops - if someone told me to put on my flip flops i would give them a very very strange look. the other thing that amazes me is that you can buy beer in a grocery store (supermarket in Oz)!

In L.A. we still call them thongs. Maybe I just don't know any hip young people though...wait, I do, and they call them thongs too...

Glad the beer worked out!