One Lost Shoe

londonsurrey

dizziblonde wrote: »

We have a greyhound who is very fond of shoe theft... so shoes don't tend to stay where you put 'em around here.

You've just reminded me, I have a shoe thief. One of my cats brought home a tiny fluffy pink "shoe" (I don't know if they have another name - it looks like a bedroom slipper, but encompasses the whole foot) for a 3-6 month old baby.

It's only a cheap Primark one, so I don't feel too guilty.
She adores it, and nurses it happily.

LandyAndy

GreenQueen wrote: »

Not quite the same, but I remember once getting dressed for work in winter in a flat where the light was poor.

When I got to work and sat down at my desk, I looked down to see that I was wearing two shoes - the same style, but one black and one navy! Don't know whether anyone else noticed, but I worried about it all day!

GQ

MrsLA did exactly that.:D

You aren't her are you?:eek:

NAR

The girl is obviously footloose and fancy free; those less fortunate are obviously jealous.

TheConways

I remember as a teenager being on holiday with my parents in the US (where we lived at the time) - mum was stung by a jellyfish on her foot, subsequently made worse by my father standing on said foot.

Due to the swelling, we had to buy a large flip flop for her to wear on the bad foot. By chance, in a beach shop, we found a large flip-flop - correct size, correct foot, but not in a pair as the other one was absent....The shop assistant was most amused that they'd found a buyer for a single flip-flop!

We never knew what happened to the other one.

londonsurrey

TheConways wrote: »

I remember as a teenager being on holiday with my parents in the US (where we lived at the time) - mum was stung by a jellyfish on her foot, subsequently made worse by my father standing on said foot.

Due to the swelling, we had to buy a large flip flop for her to wear on the bad foot. By chance, in a beach shop, we found a large flip-flop - correct size, correct foot, but not in a pair as the other one was absent....The shop assistant was most amused that they'd found a buyer for a single flip-flop!

We never knew what happened to the other one.

Maybe someone else got stung on the other foot, put on the flip-flop, paid for it, and left the flip-flop your mother found, the way some people leave the penny change offered by the shop, because they can't be bothered?

TheConways

londonsurrey wrote: »

Maybe someone else got stung on the other foot, put on the flip-flop, paid for it, and left the flip-flop your mother found, the way some people leave the penny change offered by the shop, because they can't be bothered?

Reminds me of another story whilst in the US. The shop assistant closed the till before giving my mother the penny change she owed her... "Don't worry," said mum cheerfully, "Just put it in your kitty"

The shop assistant was horrified... "Your kitty" is something entirely different in the US!

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

She was probably legless

londonsurrey

TheConways wrote: »

Reminds me of another story whilst in the US. The shop assistant closed the till before giving my mother the penny change she owed her... "Don't worry," said mum cheerfully, "Just put it in your kitty"

The shop assistant was horrified... "Your kitty" is something entirely different in the US!

ROFL. Even women in that profession would only consider money that rustles, not the type that jingles. :rotfl:


And I know that travel is supposed to broaden the mind, but suspect this wasn't in the agenda.

KateBob

Foxes?

I regularly find single shoes in my back garden and was perplexed until one of my neighbours told me about foxes love for shoes!

It also taught me not to leave shoes outside after I had one stolen by them :eek:

TheConways

Also, I found a pair of damp black underpants outside our front door the other day, just prior to moving house (we moved two weeks ago).

We lived in a block of flats at the time, and were quite concerned someone else would think we had discarded them during the move, but weren't quite brave enough to pick them up for disposal...