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06 July 2005

Single shoes on the side of the road. How do they get there?

(I'm obsessed with this today.)

post by: mudpuppie at: 23:17 | 13 comments

Shoe divorce. A nasty thing. If you have never seen it happen, you should be glad.

posted by dg 06 July | 23:19

Perhaps this Cecil Adams Straight Dope column can answer your question

posted by Slack-a-gogo 06 July | 23:23

They are murdered and dumped at the side of the road by psychotic single socks.

posted by Cryptical Envelopment 06 July | 23:38

What about the pairs of shoes hanging from overhead wires?

Double suicide!

posted by warbaby 07 July | 00:02

and you thought driving hell for leather was just an expression ...

posted by pyramid termite 07 July | 00:07

tossed out by drunk people.

posted by trondant 07 July | 00:58

What freaks me out is that they're *always* children's shoes.

posted by seanyboy 07 July | 02:18

What freaks me out is that they're *always* children's shoes.

They must discard shoes differently in your neck of the woods, because I'd say they're *always* adult sized shoes. If they were kids shows I'd just assume that a troll ate the children and discarded the shoes.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 07 July | 09:13

They are the result of a lusty backseat romp.

posted by Capn 07 July | 11:33

they're blown out of the tube stations?

[PILE ON]

posted by quonsar 07 July | 15:38

YOU INSENSITIVE BASTARD!!!! FIRST YOU MOCK SEANYBOY FOR SOUNDING LIKE A BEATLE AND NOW THIS!!!! WHERE WILL YOUR HATRED END!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted by dodgygeezer 07 July | 15:44

*now i'm really doing some dodgy swooning*

well now i demand quonsar phone it in

or else i may have to spend all my lunch money on making girlie noises for andrew cooke
*phlegm*

posted by ethylene 07 July | 15:51

What about the pairs of shoes hanging from overhead wires?

I used to see these all over Bloomington when I went to IU. I always wondered what the deal was.

posted by sisterhavana 07 July | 17:01

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