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Topic: Lost shoes along the highway

OK, this is sort of off the wall  . . .
I frequently see lost shoes along city streets or out on the highway - maybe I'm just too observant, but it is really not that rare to spot a single shoe or boot or sandal along the shoulder of a road or in the gutter of a street.

I can't help but ponder the series of events leading up to how somebody's shoe ends up along a street or highway.  Maybe my imagination is too active, but I can't help but wonder about the people who belonged to those stray bits of footwear.

Who were they?  Did they discard the shoe or lose it?  How does one lose a single shoe?

Anyway . . . Here is a news item that totally blows my mind:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news … 13f3c7d49e

This in one of the creepiest things I have ever run across.
I probably won't sleep much tonight

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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

I think I have a possible answer, the shoes at one time were on someones foot! and a ferocious alien canalbalistic podiatrist from the planet toejam in the sholles solar system on a holiday sojourned to earth to persue his foot fettish and evil plans and next on his morbid agenda is none other then michael jordan!! ( big jucy feet) so you can get a good nights rest james the mutant alien is after bigger game or feet lol

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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

I noticed a few things when I was driving slowly in a mustang convertible (= a real dream, I always had convertibles, and it is thanks to that convertible I am still among the living, they are 300kg heavier that a non convertible) I saw a lot of things in some cities, from TV's and shoes too.
The worst nightmare was in 2000, we started in Seattle, over Las Vegas to LA. I was driving on the highway to LA, 6 or 8 lanes, and suddenly we saw a boat on that Highway, it was almost a disaster, because that boat was on my lane in rush hour. It's almost impossible to change lanes on a highway.

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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

this thread remindds me when i was younger.
While driving about as a passenger in my mates car a few of us would start annoying each other in the back. 3 of us ended up getting a shoe thrown out the window by the other two. The driver did not stop so we lost 3 trainers between us.
And I bet someone walked passed and thought " why would one training shoe be here on its own" lol

Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

This topic reminds of a little story about a one-legged waitress named Lucy. You know where she works?..................

                                  IHOP

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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

lol lol I love it!!

SouthPaw41L wrote:

This topic reminds of a little story about a one-legged waitress named Lucy. You know where she works?..................

                                  IHOP

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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

Toni . . . a joke that bad deserves a song!

Lucy's LegJames McCormick, June 19, 2008


sounds like John Prine's "Grandpa Was a Carpenter"


[G]Lucy is a waitress, slinging hash each [C]day


[C]Serving up those [G]flapjacks, waffles, and O.-[D]J.


[G]Lots of good hot coffee, eggs any [C]style


[C]Hoppin' 'round that [G]IHOP, [D]big ol' friendly [G]smile


[C]Lucy's leg is beautiful, shapely long and [G]lean


[C]Hoppin' 'round that [G]IHOP like on a trampo-[D]line


[G]Lucy's leg is beautiful, the best I ever [C]seen


I [C]got a crush on [G]Lucy, the [D]hoppin' IHOP [G]queen



[G]Lucy is a waitress, I love her little [C]laugh


Her [C]girlish little [G]giggle is cuter than her [D]calf


[G]Lucy is a sweetie pie, I woo her earnest-[C]ly


I [C]think I'm making [G]progress but [D]we'll just have to [G]see


[C]Lucy's leg is beautiful, shapely long and [G]lean


[C]Hoppin' 'round that [G]IHOP like on a trampo-[D]line


[G]Lucy's leg is beautiful, the best I ever [C]seen


I [C]got a crush on [G]Lucy, the [D]hoppin' IHOP [G]queen



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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

Brilliant!!!!!!!!
I'm 'unna go get me some pancakes now...........

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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

lol
james you song was so funny i had to try it out

well done!!!!


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

truly amazing where a thread can lead lol

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Re: Lost shoes along the highway

OK - turns out the 6th foot to wash ashore was a prank.  I'm so relieved - - - afterall, 5 human feet washing ashore near Vancouver is within acceptable limits.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5e … W99NNtvjaw

I'm still going to keep seeing lost shoes along the highway - but now I'll have to stop to see if there is a foot inside.

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