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January 03, 2008
“Leave Them Alone, And They’ll Come Home”
You know how sometimes you lose a sock in the wash and so you have this one sock floating around for months and no idea where the other one is? That’s happened to me, except it’s happened with a pair of shoes.
I noticed the shoe was missing a few weeks ago. It happened sometime between the garage door breaking and the car dying. I saw the one shoe sitting alone on the mat next to the door one day and didn’t think much of it. I figured the other one was in the closet and didn’t have time to investigate. When I did investigate, though, no shoe. Then I thought maybe one of my godsons had taken it and put it under the couch or something, so I crawled around on the floor looking underneath and behind everything. Still no shoe. That’s when I took the Little Bo Peep route and trusted that my shoe was just going to show up one of these days.
My shoe has not shown up.
How does someone lose a shoe? I mean, it has to be here somewhere, right? It couldn’t have gotten up and left without telling me. Yet, here I am without one half of one of my favorite pairs of shoes (black clogs, in case you’re wondering). It’s hard to even know how to proceed. I can’t think of anyplace I haven’t already looked for it, and the other shoe is useless without its mate. It’s still sitting there on the mat, looking all forlorn and reminding me every day that there is this thing of value that I have somehow very weirdly misplaced.
What I really want is the shoe back.
Posted by adrienne at January 3, 2008 11:17 PM
Comments
Wow, I've lost socks before, cause the washer just sucks them up sometimes, but never a shoe,now that's a real quandry.Hope you find it soon,especially since it's a favorite pair,ask Lucas if he's seen it.Can't wait to see how this turns out!! Good luck!
Posted by: Bri's Mom at January 4, 2008 12:41 PM
Well, no one else has mentioned it so I will...I think it's Brian...I really do..anything going on now that would make sense he's really, really around? I have had it happen to me so that is why I mention it...
In either case...a good excuse as any to go buy more shoes!! lol.. :) :) :) :)
Posted by: Kristen at January 4, 2008 04:21 PM
In that case Bri must really still have a good sense of humor, playing little jokes like that on you.....
Posted by: Bri's Mom at January 4, 2008 08:37 PM
It is a mystery.
Posted by: adrienne at January 5, 2008 11:18 AM
My grandmother has been insisting, since my grandfather passed four years ago, that she can ask him where missing stuff is and he'll find it for her. She has told remarkable stories of him "finding things," which, of course, none of us believed.
Until my father lost his glasses.
Now my dad fell FAR from the grandma tree and is about as sensible a man as can be found. When he lost his glasses, he looked everywhere.
**Everywhere**.
Then, sitting on a rock down by the beach at troutburg, he threw his hands up in the air and said, "Ok, Jim!" (his deceased step-dad) "Where are they??!"
And as he put his hands back down on his lap, he felt the glasses in his lower, "utility" pocket of his shorts.
For the record though, this story does not make my grandmother any less nuts.
Posted by: JJ at January 5, 2008 02:39 PM
What I do with the socks is keep throwing them in the wash in the hopes that one day they will magically find their mate. Guess you can't do that with a shoe though.
Posted by: MotherReader at January 5, 2008 04:17 PM
Just a suggestion: have you looked outside to see if it is hanging from the electric wires outside your house? You never know...
Posted by: Lisa at January 5, 2008 07:02 PM
I knew someone who liked to take off one of his shoes. He would do this regularly. Different pairs of shoes, but always the same foot. He was a year old at the time, though.
Posted by: Little Willow at January 5, 2008 08:23 PM
JJ, Grandma Shannon is awesome.
MotherReader, They're leather, so I think that would cause me other problems. I guess I could try throwing it in the closet and hoping for the best.
Lisa, Ah, yes, I've seen those lone shoes on telephone wires. Good thinking.
Little Willow, I most frequently wear clogs because I like wearing shoes I can kick off at a moment's notice--both shoes, though, not just one. Babies are just wacky.
Posted by: adrienne at January 5, 2008 09:23 PM
So were the shoes left outside? If so, it is possible a neighboring dog may have mistaken your shoe for a new chew toy.
We actually had a dog drag off a 25-lb bag of natural fertilizer. There was a heavy stream of it from our porch into the woods. There the trail ended and there was no sign of the bag, fertilizer, etc. TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS!
Posted by: Poster Girl at January 6, 2008 10:44 AM
Oh my. I hate to think of what might have happened to the fertilizer. I suppose it wound up fertilizing something one way or another.
Posted by: adrienne at January 6, 2008 09:34 PM
Kristen may be on to something with the Bri idea, he did put things in really weird places, remember the keys etc. in the cereal bowls? Did anyone come to visit? I remember seeing both shoes and then noticing just the one...
We're missing the remote to a tv because it fell in the trash can & Ron did not notice when he emptied the trash.
Posted by: tonderdo at January 7, 2008 10:36 PM
If I really like a shoe, sometimes I'll buy it in more than one color. But then I looked down at my feet in church one morning and I had on a black shoe and a brown shoe.
My theory is The Borrowers. Or Madonna. She heard about you.
Posted by: Sara at January 10, 2008 03:28 PM