Howdy, Ma’am! I’m Wyatt Carson, Shoe Breaker

Yep, I’ll break in them pumps for ya, tenderfoot.

Tod Brubaker
Slackjaw

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Illustration by Emily Clouse

Howdy, ma’am! Couldn’t help noticing you hobblin’ down the street in those mighty fine pumps. Manolo Blahnik, am I right? Thought so. I know my shoes, especially stylish, painful lookin’ ones like those. Yep, real beauties, all right. Are they new? Had ’em for over a week, huh? And they’re still kickin’ up all that fuss? Sheeet.

Well, girl, looks like I came along at the right time. I’m Wyatt Carson outta Montgomery, Texas. I used to work on a dude ranch breakin’ horses. Yep, I was the best dang bronc buster in the whole U-nited States. I could train a wild mustang to fetch a newspaper and lay it down at your feet, then butter yer toast.

Turns out I have a special way with shoes, too. Back on the ranch, I was known as the Boot Whisperer. I could have those fancy spikes broken in and nuzzlin’ yer doggies faster than you can say hammertoe!

I see you’re starin’ at my feet, all skep-tical like. Yep, I do have unusually large hooves. You may be wonderin’, ‘How is that ol’ boy gonna squeeze them size fourteen canoes into my itty-bitty shoes?’ Ma’am, I can assure you that you’re lookin’ at the most talented tootsies to ever saunter on down 5th Avenue. I can work my feet into such a state of re-lax-ation, they’ll flow…

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