A shoe in the middle of the road...

[Anonymous]

So, is it just me, or do others out there come across the random shoe in the road? It seems like a couple of times a month, I will see just one sandal, flip flop, high top or whatever in the road or near the curb when I'm out driving. How do they get there? Why don't people go back for them? What is up with this?
Pick one answer below:
A) Person stepped out of shoe while crossing and was too embarrassed to go back for it
B) Person was pissed off at other person in car and threw shoe, which went out window
C) Person felt sorry for the one-legged, bare-foot pedestrian, and tried to help him/her out
D) Alien abduction
E) Other. Please elucidate.

[Anonymous]

When my son was a toddler he hated shoes and socks. LOATHED. He would find away to take them off and throw them. Twice they went out the window. I went back once because the shoes were brand new and kind of expensive ($30ish). I never found it. The next time it was a cheap sandle and we didn't look.

I'm not sure how this would happen to an adult.

[Anonymous]

This is hilarious to me because I've always wondered the same! I'm curious to see other people's theories.

[Anonymous]

14:41 again. I also had a dog that loved my shoes. I guess she missed my scent, but she wanted one of my shoes by her at all times. Once in awhile I used to find a random shoe of mine in the backyard.

[Anonymous]

I have never seen such a thing. Where I'm from shoes are not thrown out, they are saved for another person to use.

[Anonymous]

Single shoes are strange, I agree. But even weirder is the single playing card. How did it get away from the deck? Where is the rest of the deck, now that it's useless? Do people without smartphones walk around carrying decks of cards so that they too can play solitaire in their downtime?

[Anonymous]

An accident.

[Anonymous]

DH and I wonder this too! So funny that others think the same.

[Anonymous]

What about the cassete tape you see flying by every so often the long sting or it that always finds the front of my car

[Anonymous]

There's a bit in a movie about this. Don't remember the movie but they said it was murderers/thieves changing disguises in thier cars and throwing out pieces of clothing along the way as they drove.
Hope not

[Anonymous]

as kids we used to take our old shoes and tie the laces together and try to throw them over the power lines. i suspect they eventually would fall into the street by some means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:as kids we used to take our old shoes and tie the laces together and try to throw them over the power lines. i suspect they eventually would fall into the street by some means.

I thought this was a sign of a drug transaction location?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:as kids we used to take our old shoes and tie the laces together and try to throw them over the power lines. i suspect they eventually would fall into the street by some means.

I thought this was a sign of a drug transaction location?

Right. Me too.

[Anonymous]

I once put my shoes on top of the car while I was putting other stuff in and drove away. This was a pair that I lost

[Anonymous]

I've wondered this too. I think maybe the shoe falls out of someone's bag - like you're wearing your flip flops on your walk to work and one work shoe falls out of your bag, etc.