I purchased these sneakers one summer about three years ago at the Cobblers Shop on 8th street (R.I.P.) in New York City. It was a rainy day and the Converse sneakers I was wearing were soaked through, and literally falling apart. I chose these blue and yellow Pumas because they reminded me of sneakers kids would wear to break dance in the '80s.

I have had many crazy adventures with these sneakers, but one of the best times was when my best friend Rachel and I stayed up all night making stencils of Japanese animation characters and spray painting the all over Staten Island.

I had never written graffiti before so I was a little nervous, especially because we had three cans of spray paint and four different kinds of caps (which are now illegal in New York City); we could very easily have been arrested and thrown in jail.

Rachel and I arrived back at her house at 6 a.m., covered in spray paint, to find her mom waiting for us on the couch. I almost wished we were in jail. After a brief lecture and a few threats we promised never to write graffiti again--and we haven't.

--jusania