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The red splotches on the highways that you see in California aren't actually red. It's Vermillion.<BR><BR>You see, the State Painters Union gets paid by the weight of paint that they actually apply to the Golden Gate Bridge. Needless to say, as a result as they drive the paint up north from the factory in Baja California, they aren't exactly careful about how much they "spill" along the way. Just more money for them.
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Hey "Big MOney"~ is this a test to see how naive I am/or anyone that falls for this explanation of red splotches, or is that for real? I guess this automatically makes me gullible for asking......
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P.S. If you calim that your explanation is true, how do you know this? I can't help my curiosity at the expense of possibly sounding silly!
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I meant "Claim."
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Okay, okay, it's not true, you got me. I was just hoping that if it sounded intriguing enough I could get my way into snopes.com and be immortalized in cyberspace.
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Shoe Fairy?
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This is a hilarious thread. I've wondered the same thing myself for years. I'm always telling my husband how many random shoes I see on the side of the road during a given week. Who knows where they come from. I did lose a shoe myself on the road once. I had taken my shoes off while traveling between New York and Tennessee, and we stopped in Pennsylvania at a rest stop. The shoe must have fallen out of the minivan because it was gone when we finaly got to Tennessee.
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This is not exactly a "Shoe on the side of the road" story, but a missing shoe story. My brother-in-law was at Disneyland and was sitting on a bench and closed his eyes for a few minutes to rest. When he woke up, one of his shoes was gone! He was in disbelief. He had to walk around with one shoe until he found a shop that sold flip-flops or something (I didn't ask him if they had Mickey Mouse on them). We have had many "Round Table Discussions" at family affairs what happened to the shoe. We think maybe a teenager played a joke and pulled it off, and maybe they played "Kick the shoe" around the park with it!
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Another hysterical ttt for old times sake.
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Topping for LoveItaly, here is for you to clear you shoe highway confusion. If you haven't done so already, it's easier to read with a glass in your hand. Fill it with anything you wish, but the stronger the better!
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Good morning Faina, this thread is hysterical!!! I had never seen it before, thanks. And have a good day.
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We were on the beach this summer and someone stole my husband's size 13 Rainbow flip flops out from under his chair!
How gross is that? Used flip flops! |
Unfortunately, that's the kind of thing that occasionally happens in this "great nation of ours."
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I don't know where they come from - I've wondered before as well. My guess would be there are all sorts of explanations and each shoe has a story.
Regarding the theory that they are from accidents w/fatalities. It doesn't seem plausible that the car wreck, debris, glass, other personal items, etc would all be removed from the crash site but for some reason single shoes are constantly left behind. |
GoTravel, I will fwd. that little tidbit of info to our FL tourism dept. We can now brag that, unlike SC, your flipflops are safe in Florida!
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Am I the only one surprised to see "rainbow" and "husband" in one sentence? Somebody was right, I'm living in San Francisco for waaayyy too long, now where do I move?
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Way up this thread there's a post about hundreds of pairs of shoes caught up in the branches of a tree outside a town in Michigan. There's a similar shoe-adorned tree just off the road several miles west of Reno. Someone told me it had something to do with a Stephen King novel.
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Faina, you obviously do not have teens. Rainbows are THE brand of flipflops. $50/pair. Or more!!!
One can not live in SF too long. |
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I have some property in Wi that borders an interstate. 2 years ago we got there to see signs of an accident. Turns out that a van with a camper hit the ditch and rolled down onto our property. It is amazing how much "stuff" was spread out over an area. We found several dollars worth of quarters, eyeglasses and many assorted parts of this and that plus the expected glass and auto parts. Nobody cleaned that stuff up but us. |
Tandoori, I don't know about teenagers but my 49 year old beach bum husband lives in Rainbows. I got my first pair back in 1987 and continue to buy them.
They are all leather, last forever, and mold to your feet. I think the pair that were stolen were five years old. His brown ones are casual and the black pair are his dress flip flops. :-D |
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