May 14, 2007
This is a little photo proof of the single-shoe-theory that Shane
and I concocted several episodes ago...
I don't know why this particular black shoe is paired with a
crumpled laundry detergent bottle, but I have an idea...
This photo was taken on one of the many roads in Windsor where
"Front-Porch-Fridge" people toss their trash in public.
This is a service road that runs parallel to our lone expressway.
There is nothing really on this road except deep, wet ditches and
shallow, dry personalities.
I found myself to be walking along it while my car was out of
commission recently.
Most of the time, you see skater kids, wearing grimy backpacks,
collecting stupidity out of the fuel-stained gravel on the sides of
the roads.
I would hope that one of
them would get ram-rodded by a truck while wandering down this side
road, which would explain the shoe...but that's wishful
thinking.
I think this shoe is nothing more than another piece of garbage
being dumped alongside old newspapers, bottles, cans, and broken
basketball rims (yes I saw one). I just don't know why there's only
one! Where is the other shoe?
I actually could see a skater kid moving along at a good click,
with those overly floppy shoes that are wider across than they are
long, simply continuing along after one shoe bites the dust. These
kids are usually pretty lazy, unless you are willing to give them
something new for free, and I contest that they might actually
leave their abused, battered, putrid pedal-foot shoe in a
ditch.
"Screw it, I'll get it tomorrow. Hope it doesn't rain."
Idiots. Go pierce your brain.
If you have any theories, send them our way.