But of course there is no need, good Prince, to try the glass slipper on the

[saltpoint]

foot of our washerwoman, as she is shabbily garbed and shopworn from her many duties cleaning our dwelling.

That she might be possessed of some enduring skills or somehow have been the beautiful woman at your palace ball is the most foolish sort of nonsense.

She is of peasant stock and unattractive as you can plainly see, so therefore no need be to see if the slipper fits her foot.

[EFerrari]

1. Please tell me Zappos is not going under!

[saltpoint]

2. LOL! Hey there, you good person, you. Nice to run into you on a

Saturday night on DU.

Hope all's well your way.

[mopinko]

10. i went to the zappos outlet store last year

outside of louisville, ky. the bright spot of my trip.
how you doin' honey? DH is going out by himself later this month. just too busy to go along. and beside, he is going with the fatcats from work, as they are looking to gripe at sun microsystems in a large way.

[JerseygirlCT]

3. I get the feeling

that her prince would have to meet her standards, not the other way around. And I like that about her!

[saltpoint]

4. LOL! You got this post before I posted it, sounds like! Boyle seems to

have come from out of nowhere and simultaneously from everyone's memory of a person they might actually have known.

[JerseygirlCT]

5. I think that's part of it, for sure

all the perfectly ordinary, seemingly not special people you run into. And any one of them could be hiding some wonderful light under that bushel...

[saltpoint]

6. JerseygirlCT, your posts generally and lately especially have been

things that gleam.

I don't know your children but it's this observer's opinion that they sure lucked out on moms.

[JerseygirlCT]

8. Thanks, Saltpoint. I think I lucked out with *them*, myself...

and often wonder where these special people came from!

I always look for your posts - bound to be thoughtful and thought-provoking!

[rucky]

7. Almost every culture has a version of this story.

I think you just hit on the universal appeal.

[saltpoint]

9. Hi, rucky.

There is a bit of the cinder girl in Susan Boyle. The jeering and derision she was met with is the jeering and derision some folks recall from their school days, which somehow remains in people's memories more vividly than other things, and then suddenly Boyle, almost half a century old, has to suffer it still until she whips out that voice and shuts us all up.

I've never been more proud of someone today who I never heard of a few days ago.

May she continue to kick butt.