[redwitch]

I haven't really noticed a plethora of single shoes laying around but I have seen flying shoes. Once, a young couple were obviously fighting. She was driving. He had his feet on the dashboard. Next thing I know, I have a shoe on my car seat. I don't know if he took it off and was going to use it or if she somehow grabbed it but I had the shoe. I took off and saw their looks of outrage in my rearview mirror. There was no way I wanted to get in the middle of that fight and I thought I'd earned the shoe since I had to duck as it flew over my head and into the passenger seat.

The other flying shoe was not quite as spectacular but definitely humorous. A group of older teens were riding down the freeway. A couple of the boys had their feet sticking out of the window. All of a sudden, one Nike went hopping down the road as it fell off one of the boys' feet. You never saw three pairs of feet and legs get inside of a car so fast before in your life.

So, that's how some shoes end up losing their mate.