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October 21, 2001 |
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Child's Shoe with Buckle
FOUND by Starlee Kine and Felicia Ballos
in Chicago, Illinois
I think the thing I've owned the longest is this little girl's lost shoe. It's tiny and navy blue, with little white stitching. It's for the left foot. My best friend, Felicia, has the one for the right. Six years ago I was visiting Felicia in Chicago, where she used to live (I was living in New York) and we had just left a bar and were feeling all drunk and giddy. We were both about 20 and very much in that time of our lives when everything had a higher meaning and was in some way magical and important. We were somewhere in uptown, on a residential street near Felicia's apartment, and the shoes were lying in the middle of the street. I don't know who saw them first, but we both immediately loved them and wanted them and understood them to be intended for us to find.
There couldn't be any other explanation for why they would be there, a perfectly fine pair of shoes just waiting to be buckled onto some spastic little foot. Basically they had been placed there for us to crack up about, which we did for like twenty minutes in the middle of the street. And then the shoes just became permanent fixtures, crazily important to us. Like bizarre, moderately gross Best-Friend charms, I guess. we've always displayed them prominently in our rooms, always made sure they went with us in all our moves - I've been living in Chicago since last November and still haven't managed to retrieve any of my furniture from New York or even my blankets and pillows and stuff but when I came out here that creepy little shoe was the first thing I packed.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I hope I find my own little creepy shoe one day...
I have a creepy little shoe. It's a toddler boot and I found it laying on the sidewalk when me and my boyfriend at the time were walking. This is when I was in high school. Mr. BF@TT was supposed to meet me for lunch a few days later, but something happened and he couldn't make it. I was delighted though, because when I got to my car after school got out, there, tied to my windshield wipper, was the toddler shoe, and tucked safely inside of it was a note explaining his absense and some other happy bits. I still have that shoe and the note in a shoebox I keep in my closet.
There's a cool New Zealand film called "The Price of Milk" which features a woman obsessed with toddlers shoes. It's a very good watch and was totally improvised.
I think your shoe is very cute, a bit of home and friends near you is very important when you're moving around.
i now have the need to find a little shoe not only that but anything to send into found. i want to search and see if anything i've written is here or if i could find something to send it but your shoe has now made it so that i want my own little shoe in the worst way.
It is a tender thing that in the distance between you and your friend you cherish that shoe. It speaks volumes of the love you have for your girlfriend.
Your shoe was posted here over 6 years ago - do you still have your shoe? More importantly, do you still have your friend?
i just got back from a trip to israel and i saw about five abandoned tennis shoes while there.
what a tender hearted and sweet ode to your found little shoe.
i have a creepy little shoe. its from the 90s and its a hightop with little dinosaurs all over it. my mom picked it up off the street and for years she used it for when she was drying comforters, i dont know why, but i guess they need to be beaten when drying. anyways, she died recently, and i keep it on my shelf above my bed.
I bet the little girl who lost those shoes was so sad when she couldn't find them the next morning...
...and I bet her parents weren't all too happy either!
That's an awesome story. Reminds me of something me and my friends would have done. Also, when I was like 8 months preggers I found a tiny pink sock on the ground next to my car which convinced me I was having a girl. And I did! :) (I still have that tiny pink sock, too)