Whenever someone takes over for a previous person who was very successful in a specific job or field, people always say that this new person has “some big shoes to fill”, and that it will be hard for them to match the previous person’s success. But of course they won’t be as good if they have to wear shoes that are too big for them! Why not just let them wear their own choice of shoes in their own shoe size? Then they will do a better job and perhaps impress everyone. But that’s not going to happen if they’re constantly tripping over themselves in shoes that are way too big for them, with the shoes all flopping around on their feet, and making them feel silly, and with everybody laughing at them for looking like they are wearing clown shoes.
But if everyone forces them to wear the big shoes, then maybe they should wear their own shoes inside the big shoes. That might work perfectly, and doubly protect their feet from when other people try to step on their toes. In fact, maybe that’s why they are told to wear these big shoes in the first place: because everyone will be trying to step on their toes all the time, since they want the new person to fail so the old hero looks even more legendary. So it could be that people want the new person to wear the shoes that are too big in order to foul them up, or in order to protect their feet from ill-wishers. And since they don’t know the motives of those requiring them to wear such ill-fitting foot apparel, they have to make the best of wearing the big shoes. And anyway, it might simply be a contract stipulation that they wear the oversized shoes in the first place, and in that case, they’ve already agreed to do it, so they’re just going to have to grin and bear it.
But you know, maybe they could get away with crimes if they just wear their regular shoes to commit them in, because everyone will think they would be wearing the bigger shoes, since everyone always sees them wearing them, so they will not suspect them when there is smaller-sized footprint evidence at a crime scene. And maybe those requiring the oversized shoes are doing so because they are co-conspirators who want to misdirect everyone from suspecting their cohort. So it’s all a giant conspiracy, and all so we won’t know that they’re all complicit in horrendous criminal activities! And that’s why they act like they want the new person to fail in replacing the previous legendarily successful personage: so nobody will suspect that they are all partners in a criminal empire! I knew it!
So whenever you hear about someone who has big shoes to fill, you should definitely be suspicious of them! After all, what are they trying to hide in those big shoes anyway? And if they were so innocent, they would just wear their own shoes, wouldn’t they? That’s all I’m saying.
