Dancing shoes

I keep a pair of dress shoes at work so that whenever I'm travelling to work I can wear whatever I want, be it bike shoes or tennis shoes, and be comfortable. My normal morning routine involves changing into my dress shoes right away and nobody is the wiser. However sometimes I get distracted by something or someone and I forget to change shoes. Then sometime later in the morning I realize I never changed and then have to hurry up and do it while nobody is looking. Every once in awhile I get caught, this usually manifests itself when I'm standing in the door of someone's office talking, I look down, realize I forgot to change shoes, and then they notice because I sell myself out looking at my shoes. It's not a huge deal, it's just kinda semi-unprofessional and silly. One time the comptroller saw them and commented on my shoes, I felt pretty embarrassed about that. It wouldn't be such a problem if I could be all sneaky about it instead of staring at my feet whenever I notice.

It would be hilarious if that showed up in my performance review though...Marty Jenkins, good work initiative, hard worker, quick to pick things up, always a team player, wears the wrong shoes at work, promotion denied. I'd try and fight it by saying that I had the correct shoes on most of the time! But as you know it's like a three strikes law, and after the third time they caught me wearing the wrong shoes I had to be written up. My supervisor didn't want to report me, but I'd been warned about it enough times to know that simply wearing a tie and shirt or suit isn't enough...you can't wear tennis shoes at the office. Then the fifth time they catch me they give me a final warning, one more time and they'll have to terminate my employment! So for like 5 months I get it right but then one random Wednesday (also I had no idea how to spell Wednesday...) I come in all tired and I've got a bunch of work right away in the morning and I'm getting through it, but then some person who hates me sees my shoes while I'm giving a report and he/she tells my boss...then they get security to escort me from the building because the reports from before are on file for 6 months. And that is exactly how I see myself in 5 years, being escorted from the building because I forgot to change into my dress shoes.