Far Beneath Her
The beautiful, Asian customer-mistress is seemingly indifferent to my public humiliation – having me lickshine her dirty sneakers whilst she continues with her telephone conversation in Chinese high above me throughout our encounter of unequals. Indeed, she never once speaks to me or acknowledges me – though she does, subliminally, show off her socks to me just before unceremoniously shoving her dirty-sneakered foot into my face.
And rightly so – for I am far beneath her on the social scale. I am nothing but a bright, young Asian woman’s sock-admirer and sneaker-licker, and she knows full well that it is a privilege for the likes of me to taste where she has been walking from the outside of her shoe.