Woodland Creature

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24 Sep

Abandoned footwear

bestofwikipedia:

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. 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 over fences. (via meinong)

I see lonely, abandoned shoes in the East Village all the time. What I don’t understand is where the other shoe is? Are there a bunch of one-legged hobos just tossing aside the half of the pair that they don’t need?

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    I see lonely, abandoned shoes...East Village all the time. What I don’t understand is...
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    child’s rainboot on campus a few weeks ago, just standing up...a grassy area. I took it.
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    Never woulda thought...deserved its own Wiki entry, but, it makes sense.
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