This morning, on the way to work, I saw see a shoe on the road. Is it just me who finds this a bit disturbing? It's not the first time I've come accross this phenomenon either (Penistone Road seems to be a shoe-abandoning hot spot).

Where do they come from?

Why is there only ever a single shoe?

Are there people out there hobbling about in one shoe?

I need to know!

you often see gloves as well saying that....

Yes! very strange I had this conversation with my aunt the other week. I think they mainly fall off lorries/trucks where work men have a change of shoes?

and socks :gag:

Could be right there Teddygirl, they do tend to look like blokes' shoes don't they?

Has anyone ever lost a shoe off their vehicle? Can you let us out of our misery?

Even more disturbing are trousers on the side of the road!

....and shoes on top of bus shelters. :suspect:

"Mystery shoes on roads"

That's going to be the title of my next album.

apparantly there is a unwritten rule that if someone finds a shoe in the street it has to be put on top of a hedge so the person who lost it can return to get it back

I went somewhere once and there were loads of pairs of trainers hanging from a telephone line, why ?

if you go to rother valley you will see loads of odd trainers and shoes and even socks at the waters edge me and my children find this very strange

Originally posted by Olive

Has anyone ever lost a shoe off their vehicle? Can you let us out of our misery?

I can confirm that, when me, my brothers and my dad used to go camping in my dad's knackered Sherpa Van, we managed to distribute shoes, trunks, pants, T-shirts and towels across the English countryside either by hanging them precariously on the wingmirrors to dry, or forgetting that we had left them on or under the van before setting off at 60 miles an hour in search of our next adventure.....

Rock n Roll.....:P

It's the one legged man, he does it. He lives in Hillsborough and buys shoes from Windsors then chucks the unwanted one out the window on the way home...............Mystery solved !!!:heyhey:

Originally posted by RazorSHarp
It's the one legged man, he does it. He lives in Hillsborough and buys shoes from Windsors then chucks the unwanted one out the window on the way home...............Mystery solved !!!:heyhey:

But surely he'd want the other for his artificial leg!:D :lol:

I have spotted tatty Y Fronts around and about Sheffield
Who is the mystery public stripper?

Originally posted by samc
I have spotted tatty Y Fronts around and about Sheffield
Who is the mystery public stripper?

Hehe. I think he must live in Arbourthorne. I regularly spot his pants. :gag:

Originally posted by sugarnspice
Hehe. I think he must live in Arbourthorne. I regularly spot his pants. :gag:


Well he gets about then - spotted 2 pairs round Damflask at the weekend...:o

Originally posted by nick2
I went somewhere once and there were loads of pairs of trainers hanging from a telephone line, why ?

I believe its a territory marking device, much like tagging, scent marking, or urinating against lamposts.

Does anyone ever want to cry if they see a lonely child's mitten on the path? Or is it me?

Originally posted by samc
Well he gets about then - spotted 2 pairs round Damflask at the weekend...:o

I was down the spider park with my son a few months ago and under the seating area was a pair of girls pants with "angel" printed on them.. Maybe not I thought !!!:o

OK, so this used to intrigue me too. However, i now have the answer...
In May, I went to our caravan in hathersage for a night and got wet feet in the rain. Next morning I put socks and both trainers on car roof to dry. Next, I got in car to drive my daughter back to Sheffield.
Got home, couldn't find trainers-oops i thought ,they must have fallen off the car roof. Silly me.
Had to drive back to Hathersage anyway . Found one trainer under railway bridge, one sock round the corner and the other sock below Stanage. Unfirtunately I never found the othe r trainer. People must do this a lot. Once lost a pair of kids wellies in the same way.
Anyone else lost anything interesting like this?

Last year a pair of black lacy knickers appeared on the grass in our staff car park (which incidently is barriered and has CCTV)...:hihi:

It was quite funny as everybody refused (including security) to pick them up but over the period of 2 weeks the location of the knickers varied around the car park til they eventually disappeared!!

:hihi:

For years there was a forlorn pair of trainers slung high above Charlotte Road on a telegraph wire. They were like a 'sign' marking the approach to home and when they went I quite missed them. :(

Does anyone remember those pointless toys in the early seventies - I think they were called clackers?

2 balls hung from string that you, well clacked together...

Anyhoo, there was not a street in Dinnington that didn't have pair of these hanging from telephone wires at the time.


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