One shoe

[Reinhard]

Mystery for many years.  Why is it that we see only one shoe  while driving down the highway, city streets, or even gravel roads?  Always just one shoe.  Today I seen two different locations with one show.  My theory has always been that some person sticks his or her feet out the door in the summer time and one shoe flies off.  But now I see them in the winter.  One day drive down the road that I travel every day  and the next day there is one shoe off to the side.  Let the theory's begin.  good luck.

[Rebel SS]

HAHAHAHAHA!! Dat funny!!!      I have no idea!!!   

[Boar]

reiny, those shoes are looking for the missing sock one lost in the dryer.

[Easy]

So that's where it went.

[Rebel SS]

You guys kill me!!! 

[Gunner55]

  Your too fast Boar, beat me to it

[Rebel SS]

People on bicycles taking high-speed turns with one foot down? Like a motorcycle racer?   

[Reinhard]

All I've ever see was a person in the back seat of a car or front drivers seat on hot summer days stick their feet out of the car window.  Both feet, but yet only one seems to fly off.  If someone does't like their shoes anymore, why only throw one away?  Could they be what's left of a Muslim protest where they throw shoes at people they don't like [like they threw those shoes at GW Bush during a press confrence in Iraq}.   good luck.

[Rebel SS]

At a Muslim protest, I'd throw a piece of PORK.   

[mike89]

At a Muslim protest, I'd throw a pice of PORK.   

just have some one flash their boobs at that protest along with some bacon!!

[Rebel SS]

ALLAH PORK SALAAM!!   

[HD]

Round here, folks put shoes on fence posts around the pastures. I've seen it so much, I just never asked why.....

[Bobberineyes]

I never really gave it a thought either, but I spose pulling off one shoe to beotch slap someone going down the road is easier than pulling off two..

[Rebel SS]

Round here, folks put shoes on fence posts around the pastures. I've seen it so much, I just never asked why.....

Cattle threw a shoe. Just like Kemps..."it's the cows".   

[mike89]

Round here, folks put shoes on fence posts around the pastures. I've seen it so much, I just never asked why.....

there is a fella south west of here that has likely 40 posts along his field and all boots and shoes on them,  just north of Glenwood  on 29.  never did did figure that out.

[Reinhard]

Maybe it's because of all the cow pies they step in.  They just take them off and stick them on there.  good luck.

[mike89]

not looking!!!   

[Rebel SS]

Round here, folks put shoes on fence posts around the pastures. I've seen it so much, I just never asked why.....

there is a fella south west of here that has likely 40 posts along his field and all boots and shoes on them,  just north of Glenwood  on 29.  never did did figure that out.

Maybe they're mates to those ones along the roads...

[mike89]

that's a dang good question!! confused-3316.gif

[dew2]

More than once when I lived in IdahoSprings Colo. We'd take a drive and find a single glove/shoe/boot,I passed em, Then a mile down the road we'd find the matching one of the pair. We started stopping at first sight and takin em down the road find the matchin pair.Got some expensive down mittens.gloves boots even campin equipment.
 I believe it was people who put em on the top of a car/truck,forgot an drove off. How else could we find matching sets within a mile or so?
 The high passes an ski time were great scaveging times,Let alone carrying straps/chanes to pull cityslickers out  from passes that stated NO Traffic beyound this point without chained tires.Lots a chance takers out there and then the stupid ones!

[glenn57]

Hey 23 is a good route to find shoes too!! I won't get into what I've found in da woods you nort!! sleazy-422.gif tut_tut-3315.gif hubba_hubba-404.gif

[dew2]

Round here, folks put shoes on fence posts around the pastures. I've seen it so much, I just never asked why.....

there is a fella south west of here that has likely 40 posts along his field and all boots and shoes on them,  just north of Glenwood  on 29.  never did did figure that out.

Seen that 89 The surgeon who did my neck was in Alex HWY55 from Belgrade to 29 then norte Got a kick outta it.Howerver I seen it in the SW boots an shoes fer miles an miles!

[mike89]

 

it's interesting to think about sometimes!!

[LPS]

Maybe there was cooties in that shoe so they threw it out the  window...     

[LPS]

Seriously I have seen that too and wonder why just one shoe.  I saw a nice snowmobiling type glove on the road once and a mile further down there was the other one.  I turned around and picked them both up.  Still have them. 

[Easy]

"We all have traditions. Whether it be gathering at Thanksgiving, sitting down to the dinner table as a family, or the passing of the bride’s hand by her father, traditions have become customs and beliefs we pass down from generation to generation. Cowboys also have traditions, one of which involves old, worn-out boots.

Have you ever seen a rickety fence lined with old boots and tennis shoes? It looks like the fence is about to fall over from wear. It’s as tired as the old shoes that decorate it. But there’s a reason for that.

Many ranchers wear cowboy boots and like everything else, they eventually wear out. Ranchers are very resourceful and when this happens — they put the boots on top of the posts to keep them covered and prevent rain water from seeping into the posts and rotting them out.

Sometimes, a rancher will put boots on the fencepost to honor the passing of a beloved horse, a hired hand or fallen comrade. Also, before telephones were invented, a rancher would indicate he was home and the workday was over by hanging boots on the fence.
So, I have good reason to leave my old sneakers outside the back door. I am just letting people know I’m home. Call it tradition."


"Abandoned footwear, such as a lone boot or shoe, has often been noted in out-of-the-way places like ponds or by the side of roads. Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.

There are many hypotheses about why this phenomenon seems to more often involve footwear than other types of clothing. Shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, will last longer after being abandoned outdoors. Leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25–40 years outside. Some shoe abandonment is intentional, as in shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into trees, over power lines, or even fences...Some artists derive insight and inspiration from abandoned footwear - a form of art known as objet trouvé...Leaving behind shoes can be a symbol of retirement in sport. For example, as ESPN's Sherry Skalko describes about Rulon Gardner's last wrestling bout in Athens, Greece.."

[Rebel SS]

Well, I be danged! So, should I hang my old undies on MY fence posts?    

[Easy]

Well, I be danged! So, should I hang my old undies on MY fence posts?    

That's just nasty.

[Rebel SS]

I'm sorry. I take that back.  Unacceptable. Maybe if we hung them on that border wall instead...  

[delcecchi]

Throw them on top of the Gonda building...