Friday, September 12, 2014

Shoe on the highway

Recognize this? You're driving on the highway; cars all around you. Then suddenly, right in front of you, there's a shoe. One shoe; all alone, standing in the middle of the road. 

How did it get there? What's it doing there? Did somebody try to run across the highway and accidently lose his shoe? Was somebody brutally murdered, transported in the back of a car when the shoe dropped off? A whole conspiracy is unfolding in your mind; you are looking around you in fright. Who dunnit? 

Or was somebody driving in front of you who suddenly realized she was wearing the wrong type, or color of shoes and instantly decided to throw them out of the car? Why a single shoe? Why not an apple? What is that shoe doing there?

And you know it's nothing. No more than just another question that will be puzzling your mind forever, like "where did the other sock go?". But... it's there. A shoe. On the highway. And now it's in your mind. An unsolved mystery that will haunt you till the end of times. 

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