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View Poll Results: Mandela Effect
I remember it as the Payless Shoe Store 16 34.04%
I remember it as the Payless Shoe Source 25 53.19%
I choose not to face the fact that reality is an illusion 6 12.77%
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Old 05-01-2017, 11:55 AM   #1
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Default Example of the Mandela Effect: Payless Shoe.....

.....STORE or SOURCE???

I grew up right next to one of these stores and for the last 30 years have always believed it to be the Payless Shoe Store. Then last night I drove by one for the 10,000th time in my life and noticed the sign said "Payless Shoe Source".

WTF?!?!

I put this revelation out on social media and had dozens of other individuals claim I was lying and that the store has always been the Payless Shoe Store.

Anyone else remember it as "store"???
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Old 05-01-2017, 11:58 AM   #2
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I thought it was just called "Payless" and people just added "shoe store" when verbally talking about
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Old 05-01-2017, 12:30 PM   #3
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It's been Payless Shoe Source for as long as I can remember.
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Old 05-01-2017, 12:33 PM   #4
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You should probably pay better attention to your surroundings
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Old 05-01-2017, 12:36 PM   #5
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I thought it was just called "Payless" and people just added "shoe store" when verbally talking about

same here...Store or Source was never on my radar.
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Old 05-01-2017, 12:37 PM   #6
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These are still around?
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Old 05-01-2017, 01:57 PM   #7
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These are still around?
Barely. They're closing many of the stores and are in bankruptcy.
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:04 PM   #8
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I thought it was just called "Payless" and people just added "shoe store" when verbally talking about
Same here
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:11 PM   #9
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Around here we just called it the Pro Wings store.
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:17 PM   #10
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Has always been called Payless Shoe Source
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:19 PM   #11
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These are still around?

It has shifted more to being a global market more than just domestic. Mostly in a lot of tropical countries, just in last few years stores in places like St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamiaca, Barbados and the U.A.E.
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:26 PM   #12
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Has always been called Payless Shoe Source
Payless Source For Shoes?

BTW this is a terrible way for Nelson Mandela to be remembered.
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:33 PM   #13
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That iconic Rolling Stones magazine cover of BRITNEY SPEARS has her laying in bed with one hand on a phone and the other hand cuddling a purple tellytubbie.

I never knew the tellytubbie was there.
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Saw this image on ebay and I hope I'm not the only one that sees it. I need confirmation! lol.
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:57 PM   #15
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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I worked at one for about a year and a half during college. It was Payless Shoe Source when I was there. What a horrible job that was. Let us never speak of it again.
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Old 05-01-2017, 03:13 PM   #17
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You know, I just got a page from a girl I met last week at the Payless ShoeSource.

Mid to late '80s, I used to sport their finest sneakers, the ProWing Eagle. Great ankle support ideal for teenaged shenanigans. If they want to know where if all went wrong for them, they should look to the day they stopped making those.
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Old 05-01-2017, 03:27 PM   #18
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Looks like 6 other people are from my timeline.

The rest of you can carry on as usual. You haven't left your timeline.
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Old 05-01-2017, 04:30 PM   #19
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Didn't that place invent BOGO?
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Old 05-01-2017, 04:34 PM   #20
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Saw this image on ebay and I hope I'm not the only one that sees it. I need confirmation! lol.
Why would that guy be beating off while setting up an eBay listing??
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Old 05-01-2017, 04:37 PM   #21
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I always pictured Mandela as more of an Adidas guy
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Saw this image on ebay and I hope I'm not the only one that sees it. I need confirmation! lol.
You're not imagining things. He is indeed holding his phone with his penis to take that picture
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Yes they did invent BOGO.

I remember seeing their flyer all over their window.
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Old 05-01-2017, 06:40 PM   #24
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I see the grim reaper in the background
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Old 05-01-2017, 06:50 PM   #25
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You're not imagining things. He is indeed holding his phone with his penis to take that picture
Can a penis hold a phone?

Isn't it just out of his pants and reflected in the image?
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