Driving home yesterday, I passed the ultimate abduction van. It was freaky. It was a nondescript white van with plywood covering all of the windows from the inside and what appeared to be a bullethole in the back window/plywood. We'll not go into details about the driver, needless to say, he was one creepy cat. This made me think of something that always bothers me.
I find it to be very disturbing when you see a shoe in the road or on the side of the road. Especially along a highway. I can't think of a good circumstance under which a shoe ends up in the street. Whenever I see this, I automatically assume that someone was snatched right out of their shoe by vile thugs preparing ransom notes or maybe even by starving space aliens in need of a quick snack. Maybe the person was hit by a car and their shoe was thrown so far away that nobody noticed it. Maybe someone was kicking for their life as some villainous heathen drove off into the woods to eat candy corn out of their eye sockets. Something horrible like that.
Even if it wasn't the result of treachery, I still think that this shoe is going to be a bad story. Maybe someone set their shoe on the top of the car in a rush to get someplace, only to arrive and find that they are sans-shoe. That would be pretty terrible too. Or maybe someone's shoe fell out of the back of a truck. That's going to be a sad fella when the truck stops. Maybe those were their favorite shoes.
There are many people in this world that don't even have shoes. Maybe they're lucky; at least they don't have to worry about the fate of random strangers when they see a shoe in the road. They may just think "Hey......free shoe."
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Funny, because Jess and I always wonder about that too. Although, we never even considered the person was abducted!
On a side note, this is the first I have been able to get on your site for like a week!
I know. I was having a spat with my hosting service because their DNS servers went down. I got everything quickly resolved by switching providers, which is why everything was whack for a while
Dude, you think like I do in some instances. I have wondered how the shoe got there several times before.
As far as the van goes...those things have always been creepy. Once a child of the seventies, my parents would always warn us about creepy guys in vans driving around and trying to pick up kids. There were "blue star" tattoos involved as well.
I see tied-together shoes hanging from high in the air power lines sometimes. That must be a rather violent abduction.
The van wasn't in Villa Park, was it? I'd like to keep all of my shoes together in pairs.
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