What does it mean if I dream of piles of old shoes?

Last night I dreamed of shoes in two separate scenarios. In one I was the daughter of a mob boss, and I was living in a new condo/apartment that I've never seen before; it looked like I'd just moved in or was there temporarily. My mobster father was sitting at the dining room table with other mobsters deciding about, I think, how to divvy up the take from some job. Meanwhile, I was in the kitchen looking through a big pile of shoes trying to find an appropriate pair from a lot of well-worn shoes. I kept trying on different shoes, sometimes finding myself in mismatched pairs. I was trying to hurry and find an appropriate pair before my dad and his cronies got annoyed with me; I seemed a little afraid of them. In a completely separate scenario in what seemed to be the same dream, I was staying somewhere that felt like the campus of an old university or something. There were students around and I felt too old and out of place with them. Steve Carell from "The Office" was there, along with a small disparate group of others with whom I seemed to be staying. Steve was playing pranks on everyone. I had been wearing shoes but took them off when I came into the house. Steve came in and asked me if I wanted to go for a walk with him and the others, and I said yes. He went out, and I started looking for the shoes I'd taken off, but could only find one. I suspected that Steve had taken it as a joke. As if to confirm this, he came in and, with a smirk, said something like, "What's taking so long?" You could tell he wanted me to be all befuddled and say something like, "I can't find my other shoe! I can't go anywhere without my other shoe!" But, instead, I walked over to a big pile of old shoes and said, "I can't find my other shoe, but luckily I have a whole pile here to choose from, so I'll just be a second." I chose an old an pair of clogs with about a 1.5" heel. Then, in the way you can in dreams, I saw Steve outside (though I was inside) saying to what would have been the camera on a TV show, "They didn't have a pile of shoes in 'The Tempest'," clearly nonplussed that his joke had backfired. I could see my other shoe laying on the doorstep at his feet. But even though I had both my shoes back, I chose to wear the rather raggedy pair I'd taken from the pile and started on our walk. I don't know if it's relevant, but when I was the mobster's daughter, all the shoes in the pile were shades of black, or maybe darkest blue. When I was with Steve Carell in the campus-like setting, all the shoes in the pile were shades of brown/tan. But all the shoes in each scenario were very well worn, if not falling apart. I don't remember if I ever found a matching pair that seemed appropriate in the mobster scenario, but I was quite comfortable in the worn-out clogs I chose in the Carell scenario, choosing to stick with those even when the shoes I'd been wearing at the top of that part of the dream (but had removed to go into the house) had been restored to me. Anyone have any thoughts on the meanings hidden here?