If Shoes Could Talk...

Every morning and every afternoon on my commute to work, I pass under a scene not unlike this.
The classic "shoes on a telephone wire." The shoes I drive under each day are much nicer than the ones in the photograph, though. They're those nice Adidas basketball shoes that were a big trend a few years ago. When I see them, I have to wonder how they got there. Now, don't be a smart alick like Guy and say/think, "Well, obviously someone threw them up there." Maybe I should say that I wonder why they got there, or under what circumstances they arrived in their current position. Was the owner part of the game to see who could land the perfect toss, or was it a cruel prank? Is there any possible way they got there by accident? I once knew a boy who had a bad key-twirling habit, and consequently ended up with his lanyard tangled in tree branches all around the Grove City College campus, so I guess anything's possible.

Maybe it's sad that shoes dangling from a wire on my way to and from work is the most interesting thing I have to write about, but if shoes could talk, we might think differently.