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Every day, I go down to the local exercise path to skate. Every day I park in the lot, walk over to one of the covered benches to put my skates on, then leave the shoes tucked neatly out of the way.
Never have a problem until today, I come back to the bench from my second lap around and my shoes are gone. Oh just fabulous, now I get to walk barefoot across 4 lanes of traffic then walk through the parking lot over rocks and small pieces of glass to get back to my truck.
Someone just came on by and walked off with 'em. I'm pretty sure they didn't walk off by themselves, although considering what was growing in them, they may have.
Hmmm... then again, I wear these shoes after I'm done skating 12-13 miles, and while I workout at the gym.. So, I guess the joke is really on the poor SOB that thinks he's scored a real find.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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I once hosted a rollerskating party for my son and his friends. I guess they were all under ten years old...it's been awhile.
Well, skating is done and we find that ALL of their shoes have been stolen. I don't think I've ever seen so many angry parents at one time. It was ugly.
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That's to bad Mike. But I'd sure like to see the look on your face when you see your shoes on sum person sitting on a park bench reading the Wall Street Journal.
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I think maybe next time you may want to hide them under a bush or something.
When I take a walk on the beach, I wear my sandles or sneakers there, and then when I get to the sand, I hide them under some sea oaks and go bare foot.
Crazy that someone would want to steal your sneakers ... but ya gotta think that they may just have needed them more than you.
Gives you a good excuse to get a new pair. Come to think of it, I'm looking at my sorry looking sneaks right now, and thinking it may be time for an update here too.
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Shoes, Exacto knives, tape, squeegies... anything else we need to put in a Care package to you? It must be a major planetarty misalignment for you Mike. It'll pass tho. ...but your stuff won't come back.
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This takes the cake: We had a scary situation a few months ago where we had to take our youngest to the emergency room....turned out ok, but it meant a stay in the emergency room in the wee hours.
Anyhoo, my wife goes back, behind 2 SETS of locked doors to fill out paperwork, and in the confusion, leaves her purse in the room.
Next day we get a call from the hospital, "you left a purse here". We go get it. All is there, all is well....NOT. She had been saving cash for our St. Louis trip, had almost 500 bucks in there....all gone. Contents all switched around, but nothing else missing.
STILL....preying on someone dealing with an emergency in the middle of the night.
VERY lame. That's alright though. The great accountant in the sky is keeping a tally.
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So, Nettie, have your new skates actually seen daylight YET?? Hmm?? I'm on my THIRD set of wheels now and these skates aren't even a year old!
I'm off to find some new shoes ...
Barry, that sucks! Another reason I rarely ever carry cash anymore. If I do carry it, I have no more than $50 on me at any given time unless I'm going somewhere I plan on spending it THAT day.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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I think you should be flattered that someone wanted to try and fill your shoes Mike Watch out for Shopping Cart Signs - well at least they will put the quicky stickies out of business.
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Don't judge a man until you've stolen his shoes and walked a mile in them.
The more I think about, I needed a new pair of shoes. I've put 6 months of sweat and who knows what else into those things... not to forget I've even worn 'em in the lake. HAHAHA good riddance!
It's a shame though... I usually wear my shoes til they just can't hold themselves together anymore. These were in great shape, comparatively.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Since this has turned into a bit of a humorous thread..I'll answer the topic question by saying...
"What is WRONG with people" is.... that we, the honest, trusting folks, are too willing to leave things sitting where someone can steal them.
Shirl and I learned our lesson a long time ago. Lock everything up or carry it with you. If something is there to steal, someone WILL.
I can understand why you left your shoes where you did Mike...Who want's to be doin their skating while holding stinky sneakers??
I think Santo has the answer, use a backpack to carry em? (insulated and disinfected of course!!! )
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I already wear a Camelback, an insulated backpack with a removeable bladder for water, don't want to carry any more weight than I have to (ironic considering I used to skate 100lbs heavier)
I'll just go back to parking my truck on the edge of the sidewalk and lock the shoes inside it. This is what I used to do so I wouldn't have to walk through rocks and dirt with my skates, or leave shoes out in the open... although it's never been a problem before.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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(*meant to be premium sarcasmic response to the first question illustrating the human condition by restating it as a quicker, easier-to-answer poser. . .)
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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I went for a walk with my neighbour and locked the house up nice and tight and cody was going to stay with a neighbour for about an hour.
I come get cody after all is said and done. Neighbour explains cody had taken off, went to our house, got in, and she found him watching tv. LOL
Niiiice.... only my entire biz contents are in this house. My 6 yr old kid figured out a way to get in. Guess I left the back door unlocked? I don't know!
I've left doors unlocked all over the place. So far so good. We're either lucky or it looks like this house wouldn't hold any wonderful contents inside, or 'Yarrow' isn't like that. LOL
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On our recent trip to New Zealand we pulled off the highway for some lunch and a look around a quaint country town.
Later, about 1/2 an hour down the road, Sue went to get something out of her bag. No bag!!!! I mean she carries EVERYTHING in her bag. Passport, credit cards, driver's licence, cash and even the kitchen sink I think!
Back to where she remembers she last had it ... under the table in the busy cafe at lunchtime. NO WAY are we going to get it back. At least not her holiday shopping money!
As we walked into the cafe the sweet young girl behind the counter looked up.
"Looking for your bag, madam? Wondered when you would be back."
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went surfing with some friends... needed my slippers to get across the lava from the truck... left them on a rock wall by the point where we jumped off the rocks to paddle out. Later when the tide came up & swells were increasing... we decided to paddle across the bay since getting out on the rocky point was not safe... got back to the truck & completly forgot my slippers. A week later, went back & they were right there
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did it ever occur to you that some park maintenance guy was emptying the trash and said...shyt man people will leave their old smelly shoes anywhere...and he heaved them out!
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In all fairness, there's a lot 'right' with people . . . Just Monday night: lost my cell phone in the big parking lot of a busy truck stop/diner/convenience store on the 'bad' side of town. Came in that evening and figured I'd left it in the truck . . .but the next morning, no cell phone!! I looked everywhere and finally, dialed the number (half expecting to hear it ringing SOMEWHERE around the house or shop) . . . then, Lynda (at the diner) answers it . . . Some lady found it in the parking lot and left it at the counter!!! Wonder it did'nt get crushed by a vehicle!!. . .they had been waitin' for the phone-owner to call... Then I heard her holler to the other waitresses in the crowded diner: "We should'a known!!...It's Sheila's!!!"
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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Mike, you'll know when my skates finally see the light of day, because I'll be starting a post in your honour on the event. No kidding! hahahhaa
But I'm not sittin' around eating bons-bons and watching cable bub! (well ... maybe alittle) I bought my latest sneaks at the end of May and have over 250 miles on those suckers already. (mostly running, some biking) If you factor in the wear on them from weekly aerobics classes... Yikes!, ... I soooo need a new pair!
Four months for me is really pushing it for the life span on a pair of sneaks. Just like you and your wheels. It's REAL important to keep the feet happy with good support.
I'm hoping to replace some classes with some skating once the weather cools off abit. We'll see though.
You'll be one of the first to know when my wheels finally get dirty!
Hey, I still think you ought to hide your sneaks under a bush. Are there no bushes where you live? Maybe surround them with some cactus?
Nettie
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LOL Janette . . . there is no NOTHING where he lives . . .
Why do you think he takes pics of the moon?? Also, that's why the usually reclusive poisonous spiders come out in plain veiw . . .searching hopelessly for water and trying to find something . . . .like anything damp & dank besides Pimp's sweaty ol' sneakers . . . .
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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Hey Gene I spotted that dude today while skating and tried to chase him down but dangit, he's just way too fast wearing those running shoes!
Nettie, yeah we have bushes.. kinda... they're more like twigs growing out of the ground with very limited leaves on them, not really good for hiding anything since you can see right through 'em.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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We just sold the single-wide we lived in while building our house. I stayed around the morning they came to get it, disconnected the waterlines and electricity, made sure they had everything they needed, kept them supplied with something to drink, loaned them a shovel, helped them disconnect the tie-downs etc.
Had to leave for work but left the guy instructions to simply pull the mailbox up if he left out in that direction. Simple and easy....it wasn't in concrete...4x4 about 2' in the soft ground. What did they do? not only did they run over the mailbox, but knocked off the corner of my kid's playhouse and made off with my shovel. Just another negtative reinforcement to my mistrust of human nature.
On the other hand, the guy who just replaced the bottom of our showerstall, removed his shoes(immacualtely clean white socks) everytime he walked in the door, placed a protective blanket on the floor etc. etc. and did an outstanding job.
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Golly Wayne ...ANOTHER simple explaination ... The tailer-mover guys work for men they don't too take seriously . . . "I think he 'gave' us that shovel, man . . . oops was that the mailbox?? Yeh but it's ok... he SAID take it down . . ."
The bathroom fixer-guy usually works with the ladies of the houses he works in . . . "EEEEEEK!! LOOK WHAT YOU TRACKED INTO MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!"
I bet he's learned a few lessons, huh?
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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Your comment about being shocked about "someone preying upon someone in an emergency room at night" shows a shocking Niavette . . most of the people in an Emergency Room late at night got there for or by "preying upon people"
As often as not the greatest number of "Customers" in the nighttime Emergency Room of a large metro area hospital are "Low Lifes" . . .
In our contemporary culture, while there is a majority of honest, caring people, there's a growing minority of predators and scavengers, who will either steal or destroy anything belonging to anyone, including their own family members . . . sad, but true . .
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Thanks for the tip Sheila, Never thought about that... The trailer movers weren't working for me...just on my property. But next time I hire some work done...I'll be sure to put on some mascara, lipstick, and pull out my high heels.
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when i chain up my mountain bike (about $1200 worth) i a public place, i remove the front wheel - quick release- and put it by the rear before chaining the lot together, i then remove the seat/seat post and take it with me ! no-one's pinching bits off my baby !!
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Hugh, at one point I owned 5 Cannondale bikes... I still have the touring bike and the recumbent and a family member uses the road bike.. so I definitely know what you mean there.
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