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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To wonder, if she hadn't run away...

45 replies

MommaGee · 18/02/2017 20:34

Surely the prince would have married Cinderella quicker and she'd have been saved the indignity of him admitting he couldn't remember what she looked like

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cardibach · 18/02/2017 21:46

I may be taking this's too seriously and literally, but the shoes would only fit her because they would be made to fit not mass produced. The village cobbler (in this case the fairy cobbler I suppose) would have a different last for everyone's feet.

Elledouble · 18/02/2017 21:51

I once had a FWB whose name I didn't know Blush I was drunk tipsy the first night we spent together and I could not for the life of me remember what he was called, and after that it became too embarrassing to ask!

So I get it, I guess...

Fluffyears · 18/02/2017 21:53

Your feet would look rank in glass shoes with feet all smooshed inside the glass.

TimTamTerrier · 18/02/2017 22:01

Perhaps he was a bit face-blind. I had a boyfriend from another city when I was a teenager, I used to meet him at the train station and watch the passengers until someone of the right height, age and hair colour smiled at me. I think shoe-based recognition would have been a bit fiddly at a train station.

AYankinSpanx · 18/02/2017 22:03

She must have contoured on the night. Fake news

Perfect Grin

ZippyNeedsFeeding · 18/02/2017 22:05

I have terrible trouble recognising even people I know well. This led to the very confusing "Dave who wasn't Dave who wasn't Mick" episode when I was 19. I thought I was doing so well to keep one boyfriend for a while, but there had actually been three of them. they did all have brown hair though, so anyone could have made the same mistake, right?

BenLinusatemyhomework · 18/02/2017 22:07

There'd be no give either - my feet cramp in the ice skates you hire out, I'd have been hopping round shouting "oooh ya bastard, pull my toes back, PULL MY TOES BACK" within 20mins.

Imagine trying to glide gracefully in what are essentially, clogs - glass slippers are an ill-conceived notion at best.

Astro55 · 18/02/2017 22:37

Well we don't know the ending - maybe she wished she'd gone with her gut instinct and kept running

PageStillNotFound404 · 18/02/2017 22:40

"AIBU to LTB because he pays more attention to my feet than he does me? He calls himself a prince but I can't remember the last time he threw a decent ball."

MommaGee · 18/02/2017 23:26

hahahaha Page

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spellingtestmess · 18/02/2017 23:30

If the slipper was such a good fit, why did it fall off?

BraCrumble · 18/02/2017 23:53

In the Disney movie she doesn't know it's the prince - as she's leaving she says something to the effect of "but I didn't dance with the prince yet!"

It does make it a bit more romantic that she loves the guy before knowing he's the prince!

Avonandice · 19/02/2017 15:46

Glass slippers better than the original story where she puts her foot in the fur slipper AFTER one of her sisters has her heel chopped off and the other had her toes chopped by the the stepmother. Prince doesn't notice anything till a bird tells him to look at the shoe.

CuppaSarah · 19/02/2017 15:54

Why didn't she come forward during the very openly publicized shoe hunt? When she popped to town for groceries she could have easily gone and tried the remaining shoe on! Kind of attention seeking, dragging it out for as long as possible if you ask me. Not very considerate of her 'true loves' feelings.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 19/02/2017 16:07

Original was French verre was the mispronunciation. Fur slipper because it was a foof.
I always thought he didn't recognise her because she was a bit of a state working in the kitchen and couldn't see beyond the posh frock, tits and teeth.

MommaGee · 19/02/2017 22:39

Her sisters didn't get their eyes pecked out in the church steps in the ballet version!
Yeah definitely too much rush distracting him

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SofiePendragon · 19/02/2017 22:49

I've always wondered why everything except the glass slipper loses its magic at midnight?

I much prefer the Roald Dahl version anyway - the Prince turns out to be a horrible little man who cuts peoples heads off and Cinders decides she can do better

Littleballerina · 19/02/2017 22:57

He didn't recognise her because at the ball she was all glammed up with dress, pretty shoes, hair and make up done etc and when he found her she was in her jogging bottoms, no make up and needed to wash her hair.

thebirthlyhallows · 19/02/2017 22:57

Your feet would look rank in glass shoes with feet all smooshed inside the glass.

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MommaGee · 19/02/2017 23:01

But little he even had fat old ladies trying on shoes. I get face blindness but that really would be some sort of major beer goggles

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