21. Shoes Are More Important
It was a quote from my teammate on the train on the way to soccer practice in NYC, a city with one of the biggest wage gaps. We were talking about what we had done over the break and the kid just shouted:
“I saw [another kid in our grade] because my Hamptons house is right next to her Hamptons house“. He was one of the worst players on the team. Another time also came from a soccer game.
A kid in the grade above me had changed into the uniform, then made the forty-five-minute commute to the game with the team, then did the stretches with the team, but when the coach gave him his position for the game he said “Oh sorry, I can’t play today, I don’t want to ruin my Yeezys.”