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

[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.

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I have way too many shoes.