Shoeless Lut

[rowyn]

Lut stepped into the kitchen and looked around with a bewildered expression. "My shoes! Where are my shoes?"

"They're on the shoe rack," I told him.

He stared at me in mock bewilderment. "Someone stole my shoes! I left them right here." He pivoted ninety degrees and gestured to the bare floor beside the archway.

"Yes. I notice that you never put them there when we had the shoe rack there."

"Where could they be? I can't go any where without my shoes!"

I sat down in the living room to put my boots on. "And apparently can't hear anything, either."

"What?"

Fortunately, he managed to find them eventually.

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Few men can hear without their shoes on. You have surely realized this by now.

[rowyn]

It is a token of my general obliviousness that I never knew of this footwear-hearing connection before today.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Truth to tell, few men can hear with their shoes on, either.

[rowyn]

Oh! Now this, this explains much.

[minor-architect.livejournal.com]

I have always suspected that every man possesses the "Selective Hearing" gene. *nods wisely*

Or it just could have been the lack of shoes. ;)

[rowyn]

Possibly one or two women have that gene, too. :) I bet it'd come in handy!

[minor-architect.livejournal.com]

Hm? What was that?

>;)

[verminiusrex.livejournal.com]

I make sure there are too many pairs of shoes scattered around for this to happen.

[rowyn]

And you are in no danger of having someone sneak around your house, gathering them all up and put them where they belong! Where you'd never think to look for them.

[verminiusrex.livejournal.com]

It can come close. Sometimes the wife takes all the shoes and tosses them into the closet where they belong, in a pile right in front of the shoe rack.

[rowyn]

Nefarious!

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen a shoe rack.

I normally keep my shoes in the most obvious place -- hidden between the couch and the coffee table on the exact opposite side of the apartment from the doorway.

[rowyn]

Well, of course. That's the most sensible place for shoes in your apartment.

Shoe racks come in a variety of styles. Ours looks like three wire shelves, stacked one atop the other with eight inches or so between them, each a foot wide and about three pairs of shoes across.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

That sounds really hard to load with shoes using your feet. Especially the top shelves.

[rowyn]

The top shelf is only a foot and a half or so above the floor -- around knee height -- so it's not that tricky to reach.

But it's not as convenient as kicking them off onto the floor, which is, quite honestly, my own stratetgy more than half the time. If we only had one pair of shoes each, I wouldn't even bother with it. But we've got a bunch that get worn semi-regularly: Lut has dress shoes, regular sneakers, and beat-up sneakers for yard work. I have sneakers, running shoes, snow boots, flip-flops that I wear around the basement, and dress boots that I wear with skirts. And sandals for the summertime, which I won't be wearing for the next few months.

...

That's not including the closetful of fancy high-heels, thigh-high boots, and stiletto platforms, that I basically don't wear and which stay in the closet. Or the basement, for the ones that overflowed the closet.

...

I have way too many shoes.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Shoes are overrated anyway. -_-

[rowyn]

This is very true!

Although they are kinda useful during Missouri winters.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

From what I hear about Missouri winters, the only useful shoe is a house slipper. :)

[rowyn]

The 'stay in the house until it's warm outside again' option does have significant advantages over my usual approach ....

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I certainly wouldn't go out in weather like that! It would be an excuse to drink hot chocolate and toast my feet by a fire, and I'd definitely want them barefoot for that. -_-

[the-vulture.livejournal.com]

My shoes and boots cluster around the door, waiting to ambush me...

[rowyn]

Put them on the rack! That'll keep those rebellious footwear in line.