My shoes are dead:

My new tennis shoes for work that I bought around the turn of the year are already dead:

Before the soles even wore through -- which they were so close to do doing! -- the leather pulled up at the front from the tall rubber sole that was supposed to encase the shoe-leather, making a big floppy mess that could trip me whenever the leather would pull out from the rubber encasement.

They were Levis brand, and they did not last at all like I'd expected -- I didn't even get them wet or anything!