Way too many times in my life I have seen a pair of sneakers hanging from a tree, traffic light, electric wire, or some other random public place. Why? I don't get it. Who are these barefoot people that feel the need to dangle their shoes in public? Are they the same little gnomes that take socks from the dryer so that you have no matching pairs?Who are these people?!?! I have to know! Have you ever seen anyone do this, or have you ever thrown your shoes onto a tree? Please help me solve this mystery.
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never seen anyone do it, but i see abandoned single shoes all the time all over the place, and it always makes me wonder!
I have heard that shoes strung over a wire mark the house as a drug buying house. Don't know if this is urban myth or what, just what I have been told. Makes sense. I remember seeing these in the hood of some places I've lived.
I actually read in the paper when they were writing about a drug house that the shoes mark a drug house. Although I think that is passe now.
Oh my God! Those are my sneakers up in that tree! I recognize them!
Uh-oh, it's getting Dan-heavy in here again. :)
Dan (Mr. Blob) & Tots: Thanks guys! That makes sense at least. It's a better theory than my barefoot gnome one. But it is an urban legend according to this:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/factoids/a/sneakers.htm
carrie m: The single shoes are a mystery to me too.
Blah Blah Dan: I would have never guessed that you're one of the barefoot gnomes!
I had heard (from a Hooiser) that this was a bit of an Indiana tradition that didn't really mean anything other than you wanted to cause a little trouble and tossed your shoes away.
So we seem to conclude that no one really knows why people throw their shoes in trees. I continue to be baffled, but find my gnome theory to be the most entertaining. Maybe if we look inside those dangling shoes, all our socks that were "lost" in the dryer will be inside. Hmm...
Christina,
I believe you are just out "to save a few lost soles" while "doing some sole searching too"
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