Doesn't anyone have a stray laundry item on the floor this year that we can talk about until BB gets better?
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Donut

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 10:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
just a thought..
it kept us happy last year..

Goddessatlaw

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 06:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Shoes. There is a certain psychosis which requires its bearer to leave his or her shoes wherever they drop, and that could be anywhere. It appears the middle of the living room as a drop-off point provides the most relief from the symptoms of this illness, and there also appears to be a rule that the person who dropped the shoes must never pick them up. These people are karmically protected from tripping over the freaking shoes, too. No amount of nagging about the shoes will keep them from getting dropped wherever feels good or get them picked up later by the person who dropped them.

I hate shoe droppers. I have a sister who is a shoe dropper, and she dropped them all over my apartment one year without remorse or second thought. Worse, she has a shoe fetish which requires her to have at least 60 pairs of shoes at any given time. We no longer speak much (for reasons other than the shoe dropping, but it certainly contributed to my low tolerance for the psychosis). It now turns out that MM is a veteran shoe dropper. We currently have shoes in the middle of the living room, the kitchen, the hallway, and the bedroom. I refuse to pick them up for reasons of I ain't his mother and anyhows my own mother never picked up my shoes. Unfortunately, the non-shoe droppers don't share that karmic protection from tripping over the damn things. In fact, it's kind of the reverse - if a non-shoe dropper doesn't pick up someone else's dropped shoes, they are forever doomed to trip over them frequently and with injurious result.

I intend to win this battle. I know he's trying to drive me as nuts as he is by dropping and leaving the shoes when I clearly take issue with it. I will break my leg tripping over size 12 Johnston and Murphys and I will then make MM explain to the future inlaws how their baby suffered her first broken limb as a result of his negligence. I will then stand back and watch while my father and brothers take turns with him. I will not pick them up. I will not pick them up. I will not pick them up. I take that back, I may pick them up but they will wind up down in the reservoir floating amongst the gooseshit and Hoffa bones.

Squaredsc

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 06:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
size 12 huh?

Goddessatlaw

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 06:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Squaredsc

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 06:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
^5 gal, that's my girl.

Juju2bigdog

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 08:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought the Hoffa bones were under a swimming pool in somebody's backyard.

How about this? We start a stray shoe depository somewhere and everybody ship their extra shoes there? Shippers must describe where the shoe was found, a bit about the shoe, and if relevant, a snippet or two about the previous owner of the shoe. Shoes may be shipped as singles or doubles.

Suggestions as to where to send the shoes?

Maybe Abbynormal's hallway? Sort of In Memoriam?

Babyruth

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 08:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great idea!
BR sets up an Odoreaters sales table....Free Jujugoatdoll with every pair of odoreaters!!


<waiting for the other shoe to drop>

Wargod

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 08:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Got a shoe dropper here too. Darren's size 12's sit right smack dab in the middle of the living room, and no matter how many times I move them, they end up right back in the middle of the floor.

Juju, can we ship stray backpacks too? I've got a couple of those also. Been tripping over those for two weeks now, and have come fairly close to doing serious injury to myself.

Tabbyking

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 10:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oh my heck. i am counting the days before my son goes off to school because his shoes take up the entire entry hall! he wears a size 12 and each shoe also has the extra tongue in it, cut out from an older pair of shoes. i guess it was a skateboard thing, so you wouldn't hurt the top of your foot, but the entire town (males anyway), either have a second tongue or roll up a sock. then they leave the shoes unlaced and have these huge BOATS on their feet...)we have a cabinet in the hallway to put our shoes in,and while dd and i can put 3 pair of our shoes on one shelf, ds takes a whole shelf for one pair! i trip over them all the time because he tends to leave them right at the bottom of the stairs. we have taken to having to leave a nightlight on downstairs, so my husband can navigate his way 'through the boat harbor'(4 pair of shoes in the hallway) when he leaves for work at 0'dark thirty.

Tabbyking

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 11:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
wargods, ah, yes...the backpack trip. especially when you step insides the straps and get all tangled up in it. speaking of backpacks, though, i do feel bad for the kids carrying them around. my daughter's back hurts all the time. some of her textbooks weigh more than 8 pounds apiece and most teachers want their class to have a binder just for that class--not a section in a 3" inch binder. my daughter sometimes has a back pack that weighs 25 pounds. she is barely 5 feet tall and is exhausted and sore after carrying it around all day. they don't have lockers because kids might stash something in them. so they have to carry everything they need with them all day long. the schools have spent a ton of money to order double textbooks, so they have one set in the classroom and one set at home, but they have kids in classes with more than 40 students and only 32 textbooks. my daughter hates to share because she reads ahead or wants to turn the math page and the other student might be ahead or behind on the page. it's very frustrating. and not having lockers doesn't solve anything. the kids can have whatever they want sitting in their cars in the parking lot.
uh oh, i got off on a tangent!

Donut

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 11:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
every thread i go to, Jimmy Hoffa keeps showing up...
Maybe he will turn out to be the new twist on BB..

Wargod

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 11:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
We're kinda lucky with the backpacks right now. All Dakota ever takes in hers is a quarter for milk money each day, and homework sent in on Fridays (a page or two.) They request all kindergarteners bring one so that they can put important notes home and such in them, then pin the note to the back of their shirts, LOL. Caleb has his homework everyday, lunch box, and frozen bottle of water, but no books yet. And yep, you either get tangeled in the straps, or the handle on the rolling backpacks, lol.

Not1worry

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 11:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They don't have lockers????

I can't even imagine high school without lockers. Where do you keep all your Bon Jovi pictures? (or whoever they would keep these days). That is so ridiculous that they expect kids to carry that stuff around all day. There's so much more you need other than just textbooks.

<<breathing another word of thanks that homeschooling is legal in all 50 states>>

Wargod

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 11:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not, we haven't had lockers around here since I was a senior, and I graduated in '91. Some classes you got lucky, had a set of books in class and a set you took home the first week and brought back the last week. Other classes you had to carry you're books everyday. Here at least, they were tired of graphitti and people hiding weapons and drugs in their lockers.

Aunt_Bob

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 12:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just want to say that the thread TITLE alone had me LOL and it and the references to "Hoffa bones", which by the way, I initially suspected you all were referring to a new brand of doggie biscuits -- provided more entertainment for me than BB4 has so far, hands down!!! Thanks

Unfortunately, I can not empathize with the dislikers of 'shoe-droppers', as I have none. I do, however, have a 'glass-setter' and I can say I have a problem with 'name-droppers'!! Close enough???

Hippyt

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think they're digging in HeyltsLori's backyard,looking for Jimmy Hoffa.

Wargod

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If thats the case, Hippy, then they're looking in the wrong place since we know she likes to keep men in the closet!

Neko

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 01:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
But then they'd have to come out of the closet....
And what would they want to do with Lori then??

Luvtrash

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 12:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, thanks everyone! Just reading these posts has been more enjoyable than anything that has happened on BB so far this year! Having no husband or kids (and better habits myself) I have nothing to contribute to the topic. My kitties do occassionally leave a wet hairball...but unfortunately not on the bathroom floor!

Ddr1135

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 04:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Have packed up flip flops, Doc Martins, tennis shoes, two Fossil watches, various remote controls (these are for the stuff in his room) and a ROCK (don't ask!) that my son continually leaves in LR. What's the address to Abbynormal's hallway?

Hermione69

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 06:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I admit it, I'm a total shoe dropper. I drop my shoes not only all over my townhouse, but also all over my sister's house and my parent's house when I visit them. To make it worse, my mom and I wear about the same size and I will drop a pair of my shoes, forget where I dropped them, borrow a pair of hers and then drop those. By the time I have to pack up to go home, there are usually about 4-5 pairs of shoes, hers and mine, that I have dropped in various locations and I have to run around willy-nilly trying to find mine.

Good thing I am so cute.

Secretsmile

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 06:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
GAL.....I am with you, shoe dropping could have ended my husband's life many times over the past 25 years. I tried many different ways to motivate him.

I've put them all in his favorite chair so he would have to move them before he sat down. That didn't work, he just dropped them on the floor and they bounced to the middle of the room again.

I've taken them upstairs and laid them on his pillow, this got the point across for about 1 week. It wasn't my best move since I then had to wash the sheets.

I've "hidden" them in the closet. This gave me some satisfaction since he'd look everywhere looking for them, but he made a mess.

I've even been driven to tossing them in a temper tantrum, since I planned the whole thing for when he got home, I ended up laughing as hard as he did and it had little effect.

Finally I gave up and bought a large, flat, decorated basket and set it next to his chair in the living room. This actually worked, he puts his shoes there and I'm not tripping over them.

I know, I know, I didn't actually win, but at least I'm no longer worried the police will take me to jail for murder. LOL

Not1worry

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 07:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I decided this morning that my husband was leaving his shoes all over the place on purpose so that I'd get so aggravated, I'd actually be glad for him to go to Iraq. So sweet of him to try and help me out like that. That must be why he took my van yesterday on the one day I needed to go somewhere.

Goddessatlaw

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 08:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Not1worry - looks like he's working that reverse psychology on you.

Wargod

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 09:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ddr, I continually pick up a 2x4 that my daughter leaves laying all over the place. She has affectionetly named it Woody. She won't have anything to do with most dolls, but drags that peice of wood everywhere.

Mware

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 11:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
War- Just wait till she wants you to buy the Corvette, cell phone, sunglasses, and 6 changes of clothes for that 2 x 4.

Wargod

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 11:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lol, Mware.

Mack

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddessatlaw - this is Mack's wife....can I send you his shoes?

Twiggyish

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 08:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh yes the shoes by the recliner!

Tabby, can your daughter use a rolling backpack? We bought one last year for our daughter. Her school only has small desks for storage.

Ddr1135

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 05:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Wargod

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 09:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sure, Mack's Wife - I just saw a duck sail by on the reservoir riding on top of one of MM's shoes. I'm sure some of his buddies would appreciate some landing craft of their own!

Mack

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is the real Mack...can't believe DW used my ID....especially when there were a pair of her shoes in the family room!!! Besides...I have nowhere near the number of shoes DW has...I can't spare any!!!! Especially for ducks! :-) Women and the number of shoes they "require" is probably the subject of a completely separate discussion.

Costacat

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 04:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Costacat wants to know what a "Johnston and Murphys" is, GAL.

I don't have shoe droppers in my house, since my four-legged kids have yet to figure out how to put shoes on their paws, let alone tie any laces.

HOWEVER, my little man, Costa, has a tendency to drop little furry critters anywhere he wants. Fortunately for me, he's an inside only cat and I live in the city, so the furry things were already dead. They are usually furry fake mice that end up as hamsters cause he bites off their tails. And his favorite little trick is to wake up from a nap, go find a furry critter, and carry it halfway to his food dish. NOT all the way to the food dish. NOT all the way to me. Just somewhere in the middle of the floor. So if I get up in the middle of the night and stagger around the house in a daze, it's a guarantee that I'm gonna get a stone bruise on my foot which is really a critter bruise since I stepped on his freakin' mouse-turned-hamster!

Not to hijack the shoe dropping thread or anything! <snicker>

Kaili

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just found this link- for anyone who has a missing sock- maybe you will find its match here :)

Lonely Socks