Odds and End.
I saw an emergency storage container on campus the other day...in big bold letters on a trashbin-looking metal container, it stated "EMERGENCY STORAGE CONTAINER." It was a few steps from the parking lot. I would love to know what one might put into an emergency storage container. I tried to think of emergency storage situations I, myself, have had in the past--instances where I would have benefitted from an emergency storage container. I could think of none. But I did enjoy picturing myself holding something which needed storage immediately..."Quick! I need to store this NOW!!!" Or imagining myself in the commercial for an emergency storage container: "Has this ever happened to you? You need to store something in an emergency and your tupperware are all dirty? We have the answer."
I saw a lone shoe on my way to work on Friday. We've all seen the lone shoe on the side of the highway, on the sidewalk, etc. Will someone else find its abandoned mate? Are there pairs of shoes out there, alone and useless, waiting for someone to reunite them? Or are there really that many frustrated one-legged individuals in the US and this is their statement against society's insistence on selling them TWO shoes when they only require one? How do you lose ONE shoe? This question has burned in my psyche since I was about two years old...how do you fail to notice that one of your feet is suddenly naked? A flip flop, maybe, but we're talking an abandoned tennis shoe, one red stiletto. How far could you really get before this information confronted you and you retraced your lopsided steps back to your shoe?
I saw a lone shoe on my way to work on Friday. We've all seen the lone shoe on the side of the highway, on the sidewalk, etc. Will someone else find its abandoned mate? Are there pairs of shoes out there, alone and useless, waiting for someone to reunite them? Or are there really that many frustrated one-legged individuals in the US and this is their statement against society's insistence on selling them TWO shoes when they only require one? How do you lose ONE shoe? This question has burned in my psyche since I was about two years old...how do you fail to notice that one of your feet is suddenly naked? A flip flop, maybe, but we're talking an abandoned tennis shoe, one red stiletto. How far could you really get before this information confronted you and you retraced your lopsided steps back to your shoe?
posted by slickaphonic at 10:29 PM
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Wait, isn't that a box you put emergencies into? That would be cool, like, I don't have time for this emergency right now, I'll just put it in this box, then maybe later, I'll take it to the dump.
Maybe emergency shoes are stored there...in case you happen to lose one.
I always wonder that too, though I haven't run across more than maybe two stray shoes in my lifetime. Being the drama queen that I am, I'm sure I created a storyline that involved a quick get-away.
Maybe they film a lot of horror movies around me.
And the sets all have really lazy clean-up crews.
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