It's time for you to get to know me a little bit. Now that I've become a fairly visible Yelp Elite,…read moreI've been thrilled to get Yelp friends nationwide.
That's so exciting to me.
I love my Yelp community here in Indy. Awesome people and they showed up in a big way during my late 2019 hospitalization that ended up leading to amputation of my upper left leg.
I like to think that I'm certainly a nice guy. I'm positive. I'm upbeat. I'm an encourager. While I sure didn't think I'd win "Complimenter of the Year," I must admit that I really love giving compliments.
But, I have to confess.
I'm also a bit of a weirdo.
Seriously. Just ask the local Yelpers. I'm socially awkward, a serious introvert, and have a dark, dark sense of humor.
I also have spina bifida. I'm a paraplegic, double amputee (above knee on left leg, below knee on right). I have scoliosis, so I have this curved spine and am so short I kind of look like a snail on wheels.
Hey, I'm just being honest.
Despite my self-deprecating ways (You'd probably caught on, eh?), I'm pretty darn comfy the way I am and have a lot of fun with it - usually at someone else's expense.
For a long time, I loved visiting Foot Lockers and asking them if they had my feet. They never did. I actually did this at quite a few shoe stores.
Well, I attended seminary in Richmond, Indiana (I know, weird. The church needs more goofballs). My fellow seminarians never believed me when I told them I liked to go to shoe stores and try on shoes.
Again, I have no feet.
So, one night after a particularly hard intensive a small group of us headed over to Richmond's Dillard's. We don't have Dillard's here in Indy (that I'm aware of) and we enjoyed shopping. Of course, we stopped in the shoe department and an incredibly sweet, unsuspecting sales person was left aghast when I started trying on shoes including high heels.
Why not?
The truth is, however, that this sales person ended up being so incredibly kind and generous that I ended up spending far more at Dillard's than I would have because I was so impressed with her service.
I didn't buy any shoes, though.
Dillard's is about the best store in the Richmond area that falls into the "department store" category. It's not fantastic, but it's consistently good and they're service on this occasion and subsequent occasions has always been super strong.
They offer clothing (men, women, juniors, children), handbags, jewelry, accessories, lingerie, home goods and, of course, shoes. The prices aren't too bad. It's located in Richmond Mall, is fairly accessible and, of course, they tolerate weirdos in wheelchairs exploring the world of shoes despite not having any feet. I'm not sure I'd call it a destination store, but if you're in the Richmond area it's definitely worth stopping in.