No - but I have seen a shoe left behind. A high-heeled black pump.

I think the same idea - some woman changed her business shoes for comfy ones and left the carry-on open - so one slid forward (it was by the first row).

Never lost a shoe but like sunbum lost a relative once! Stepdaughter flying home from S CA for Thanksgiving weekend and was suppose to arrive at SFO around 6:00pm the evening before Thanksgiving. No show. Hours and hours later, after United called the S CA airport gate, paged her, a rep at United even called the CHP and PD etc., she showed up on the first flight coming in the next morning. Had met a "real cute fellow", got talking to him, missed her flight and never listened to the announcements paging her. Boy, he must have been a fantastic guy! We were not amused. Especially because after we "threw" her in the car and rushed back to our house I had to prepare Thanksgiving dinner for 24 people.

Kids! It doesn't get easier as they get older, does it?!

LOL CAPH, no it doesn't!!!! Good thing noone knows that when they start raising a family. Take good care.

How funny to see this thread come bouncing back up.

Update: the shoe NEVER turned up, and my friend has gotten rid of the remaining shoe. I guess they'd be out of fashion a year later anyway. :-D

I became very ill upon returning to the US from French Polynesia and on our return flight I wore flip flops (ease of convenience, being so sick). The man across from me was a beligerent drunk--- BEYOND drunk, actually--- and among all of the other atrocities he committed during that 8 hour flight, he peed on the floor of the bathroom.

Well, in the middle of the night, I got up, very feverish, and couldn't find one of my flip flops. I stumbled to the bathroom one shoe on, one shoe off. To my dismay and disgust, the lavatory floor was wet, cold, and sticky. Not to mention smelly!

I was sure to find the other flip flop on my next trip to the bathroom.

Sorry to be a downer, but the single shoes on the side of the highway are usually left over from car accidents. People thrown from cars are typically knocked out of their shoes. Obviously in the haste to get victims into ambulances, etc., shoes are forgotten. A paramedic friend of mine explained this to me.

And yes, shoes dangling off of telephone or electrical wires means "drugs sold nearby."

NEVER NEVER NEVER go shoeless into an airplane bathroom. That floor is a nightmare!

Well, I'm not sure I should admit this, but I did lose a shoe once when the police came around and took it away. I was trying to strike this match .......

OMG YES, YES YES, I did lose a shoe on an airplane once!! For real too. I had a pair in a carry-on bag that I kept stowed under the seat in front of me. While on board I could clearly see 2 shoes but somehow between the airplane and picking up my checked luggage, one went missing.

When I read your question Marilyn I thought no way, I've always thought I was the only one!

sorry for topping, but I need a smile today, and maybe somebody else is having one of those days...

Oh no! What will happen if Peeky gets ahold of this one?!?! No telling what SHE'S lost on the plane :-)

Smoke and mirrors Batman I'm wondering if tracy2cents had us "pray for the leg" while auntie made off with the shoe!

And I hope whatever Peeky may have lost on a plane it wasn't to dumpy...I mean pumpy! What a catch he must be--score! :-D

Yes, it happened to me once. I was enjoying a Singapore slingback with my entree, which was sole. A Sandals brochure fell off my tray table, and the heel next to me kindly retrieved it.
Someone was snoring like a mule, so I gave him the boot. A man tried to give the attendant a tip and slipper a five. I glanced at the wingtip, and noticed about a foot of snow, so I thought UGG!
The pilot, Mary Jane, could not be suede. She let us have another drink, laced with rum, so we'd have New Balance once we landed.

Wow jetset1...How do I top that?
I have been tempted to hide the shoe that drifted into my space, but I thought how would I feel if the shoe was on the other foot?

Tahiti~ yeah, I am bored,lol. Too much time on the back forty with weed killer and no wine!
I forgot to add that while visiting the Big Island, you go past the arches and there are many Hammertoe sharks around. Listen for the barking dogs.

jetset1..your punching out great lines that rhyme with no wine.. Oh my..
;)

TahitiTams~ since you're such a good sport, the drinks are on me next time I visit San Diego. Besides, you offered excellent advice as to hotels and hot spots there before I arrived last spring, that I owe you a few:)..
I must go now. I'm working on my newest novel, How to Properly Saddle a Moose. cheers, J.

jetset1..
I am honored.
Hope you gotta lot of dosh because I like the good stuff and one round ain't going to cut it..
Best to you and the shoe you rode in on!

TT~ champagne for everyone, and bring a "stiletto" just in case we end up on the wrong side of the tracks!

Bravo, jetset1!!!!=D>=D>=D>

That oughta be just what Faina needed! Good stuff!