While I avoid drinking my Chardonnay out of shoes, you might want to try the '02 McWilliam's "Hanwood Estate" (SE Australia) as an alternative to LaCrema. It's the Best bang for the buck Chard @ $6.99 imho (and I'm not a huge chard fan).
M

I'll look for it, mikemo. We have an Australian winemaker in the family, but he only makes reds.

Easy, have you lost consciousness for the evening? Chardonnay Overdose? Or might I still hear from you?

this is a shoe-in!

In several local areas, knotted shoes/sneakers hanging over wires is a signal for a drug dealing area - have no idea what single shoes on highway might signify.

I thought everyone knew Chardonnay should be drank (drunk?) from a Manolo Blanik Curcia????

If she has two evil stepsisters, she may want to be on the lookout for a well dressed pilot to arrive soon riding a white (Ford) Mustang.

Either that or she hadn't paid the credit card off after the shoe purchase, and it was an obvious partial re-possession. Partial repossession IS 4.5/10ths of the law, after all.

even more traumatic: i left my heart in San Francisco......

gail, carelessness?

The rest of you guys -- too funny. Clifton, her husband will give the Pilot Prince Charming a warm welcome I am sure.

Kal, I can tell you don't wear them because it's BLAHNIK, dear.

Keep it going. When this thread dies a natural death I'm going to email it to my friend. (Did I mention that all my friends think I am slightly nuts because of my fodors addiction?)

Marilyn, only the UN - addicted friends

Hiya Scarlett (my thread, so I'll hijack it if I want) -- They froze your Sunday Rave thread! Veering towards the political abyss, I guess.

Later, all...I'm off to pump iron.

Sorry, Marilyn!

Yes, I drank meself under the computer table last night.

One glass is my limit.

But this time, it was all the squirrel's fault. My neighbors keep feeding this squirrel and it thinks it's human. Last night it came over and took too many of our nuts. Helped itself right out of the glass bowl ("Oh! Isn't he cute!")

One day, our OTHER neighbors' cat is going to catch that squirrel and that'll be the end of all this cuteness.

I'll try to find your email address and write you later today. It's a good idea. Trust me.

Oh, to stay on topic: sorry about the shoe!

I bet it was a fetishist. My friend was shoe-mugged (shoe-jacked?) twice in NYC - definitely a fetishist because they weren't even nice shoes.

I've never lost a shoe but I watched a poor little old lady lose one during all the shoving as she was getting off a crowded metro in Rome and try frantically to find someone to retrieve it from the tracks.

TravelGina: For some reason, your story about the little old lady in Rome reminds me of when I dropped my camera bag off of one of the rides at Universal Studios. I shoeurr was mad!

Donna

I've never lost a shoe myself, but I have been surprised how far and how quickly small objects can travel across the floor of an airplane, particularly if there is turbulence. There are a couple of times I've picked up an item and found out it didn't belong to anyone in the rows nearest me - I've then handed over to one of the stewardesses. It is possible that someone picked up the shoe assuming it had fallen from the bag of one of their family members or companions and later realized their mistake, so I'd also recommend contacting the airline and see if anyone turned it in later.

Re: hanging shoes over telephone wires. My brothers (those sneakers!) and all their friends used to do this when they replaced their old Converse AllStars. We grew up in northeast Philadelphia (in the 60's and 70's). It was not connected to drugs "back in my day" (yech that sounds awful!)...times change just like fashion I guess.

Marilyn, your friend has a soulmate in the person who sat in the window seat of my row just a few weeks ago on a New York-Boston shuttle flight. She kicked off her shoes as she boarded and was sound asleep before takeoff.

Upon landing (just 40 minutes later), one of her shoes was nowhere to be seen. When I deplaned ten minutes later, she was still searching for it, and everyone around her had confirmed that her shoe (one of those very low-profile jobs) was still on the MIA list.

My theory is that the airlines are holding them for ransom.

Let's move on, people: how one shoe can be used?

To drink champagne out of it?

To put on a shelf as an object of art?

Use as X-mas decoration?

Put in an old box, leave in the middle of the street and watch the face expressions of the innocent victims who open the box?

Neal, my friend asked the FA if this had ever happened before in her experience and the FA said no. So I'm sure she will feel better knowing she is not the only one.

What is the sound of one shoe clomping?

CLOMP!

Marilyn: I wrote you at your yahoo address. Did it go through?