Just one

So I am driving along yesterday and passed a shoe on the side of the road. Just one. A lonely little tennis shoe in dirty gray. It really got me thinking about what circumstances would lead to only one shoe being left in the gutter. If you put a pair of shoes on the roof of your car, for instance, it would seem that they would both fall off at around the same place. I've seen lots of random baby shoes in parking lots and such. Babies are always losing just one shoe or sock, but this was an adult's sized shoe. Did something sinister happen, like the person was abducted by aliens so fiercely that all that remained was a shoe? Was it from someone that was hit by a car and the force of the impact blew off the shoe? Maybe it was someone just walking down the road and that shoe was hurting their foot, so they took it off and left it in frustration. Maybe it was tied to the bumper of a newlywed's car and came off.

Just something to think about the next time you are driving along and encounter the lone shoe.