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i, ah, tend to wear rather old shoes
Dan's dad (Max Hakimzadeh) is in the Natick office (the one Agaric borrows occasionally) of Comfort Shoes two days a week to meet his orthopedic clients.
I was there, hanging out and talking to him about everything while waiting for Dan, and then he asked for the size on my shoes and when I took them off to check (there was no tag left in either of them, and the soles had long since fallen off too for that matter)...

He took them and threw them in the trash.

And gave me a new pair.

Brooks. So much for my statement against planned obsolescence... although at this point it was really a statement of "I know I need another pair of sneakers besides my running shoes (a couple years old but in fine shape), but I don't have the time to go buy some." (I still have the pair that have prompted offers of spare shoes since 1998...)