The Point At Infinity

So my analogy isn't actually sound? :-) Or rather, the advice I refer to was given by someone who had much less experience with foot-torture devices in the name of style, and so would not be able to draw a cogent comparison where regret is concerned. I can just imagine a new simile: "How bad was it?" "It was bad, honey. It was three-km-in-bad-shoes bad." "Three-km-in-3-inch-stilettos-no-padding bad?" "No, just 3-km-with-arch-support-in-the-wrong-place bad, but that's bad enough."

I am trying to milk as much humour out of this situation as I possibly can.