Any funny shoe stories out there ?

[Judy from Boise]

At my good buddy Snoopy's urging I was trying to think of a funny thread, that would also combine one of our mutual loves.....SHOES !

I will tell you my latest shoe confession ( besides recently ordering 6 new pairs of Birkenstocks ) I just started as Director of Nurses at one of our local hospitals, so needless to say i try and hold myself to very high standards and meet all policies etc. Well, some idiot who wrote the dress code decided that bare legs were OK, but bare feet were not.....so this summer everyone in the hospital looked like total dorks by wearing sandals and clogs with Peds ! I resisted for the first month, but i finially joined the fashion geeks and started wearing little nylon peds with my Birkenstock and Dannsko clogs. I feel so stupid !

Now I am sure someone can top that !

 

[DisMN]

Well, this happened to my sister.......yeah, my sister........

she was shopping in downtown Minneapolis going from store to store and floor to floor.
She was on the second floor at Donaldsons and decided to head downstairs to the main floor to do some more shopping.
At the top of the escalator she hooked her macrame sandal but didn't realize it.

When she was done at that store, she crossed the street and headed half way down the block to Daytons. So she's in Daytons checking out the sweater department.....and she takes a step and suddenly realizes that she has NO RIGHT SANDAL left. There's nothing but a sole laying there on the floor.

LMAO this really is one of my favorite sister stories.


You should hear the one about her skirt tucked into her pantyhose......
(we called her "chillybuns" for years after that event!)

 

[delilah]

This wasn't funny at the time, but I can laugh at it now. While packing quickly to fly to Florida when my dad passed away, I nearly packed one navy pump and one black pump, same style. At that point, I was so freaked out that I just packed both pairs of shoes. I have also successfully managed to wear on shoe from two different pairs to work; fortunately, I've noticed before anybody else, and gone home to change.

 

[KimR]

I once went to work one day with 2 different shoes on. And not just 2 different styles - the heel lenghts were different as well. I used to go into work very early to avoid traffic so I guess I was accustomed to feeling 'off-balance' in the mornings!

I was so embarrassed I told my co-workers I wasn't leaving my desk the entire day. Well, one of my co-workers thought he would be real cute and put a sign up right by the elevator that said 'Go look at Kim _____'s feet'. They never let me live that one down!

 

[snoopy]

LOL! Glad to have you back among the silly, Judy from B. And with a topic on shoes, no less.

Funny shoe story, hmmmmm.........not sure I have one? DH thinks my shoes, and the closet they call home, are very not funny. Let me think on something funny.......

 

[jx3smom]

I was about 8 months pregnant and decided to run the grocery store even though I was on bed rest. I took my 10 year old DS with me and after seeing about 20 people we know he looked down at my shoes and laughed. I had a light tan shoe on one foot and a black one on the other. They were the same style so I just slipped them on and went out. The colors were so different that they stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I wear sneakers to work because I walk from train station. I have my shoes under my desk that I wear once I'm there. I was on vacation one week and they were moving my desk and the belongings. At the time I worked with mostly men. They had to find a big box to put my shoes into, because they counted 22 pairs. Including 2 pairs that were in their box and never worn.
One man couldn't believe how they were all beige and black (matches with everything). They still tease me about it. But now I leave my sneakers on all day!

 

[QJ411]

Let's see...

One day I went shopping at DSW (a shoe store near us) and found an amazing pair of Kenneth Cole shoes...and it was perfect size, the only thing was it didin't have a price tag...no biggie, I walked around for a while, picked up another pair for myself and a pair of sneakers for my DH.

I went up to the register and explained to the lady that I love the Kenneth Cole shoes, but I just find another one w/ a price. She's looking all over, then decides to call over the mgr.

The mgr. comes over and says "Oh thank you, you found them...these belongs to one of our customer, we've been tearing the back room apart looking for it!" and walked away.

So yea, I was pretty darn embarassed! They looked brand new! I wanted to go ask the mgr. if I can meet this lady and compliment her on her shoe styles!!!

BTW, if YOU were the person who I "stole" your shoes from, I'm terribly sorry, but you do have great taste in shoes! hee hee...

 

[chrissyk]

I was at my grandparents' house and my mother stopped by to drop off my sister's puppy with me. My mom and I took the dog out to do her business. We looked down to praise her, and my mom started laughing. I was wearing 2 different sneakers She found this hysterical, of course.

I was taking the puppy to my house that day for some reason, and I stopped by my DH's work so he could visit with her. Anyways, I forgot that I was wearing 2 different sneakers. Of course, when I told my mom that I'd gone out in public like that, she found it even more hysterical Hopefully people were looking at the puppy and not at my mis-matched shoes!

 

[cynsaun]

My girls were flower girls in my sister in law's wedding. The wedding was in FL, and the reception was on a yacht, sailing along the intracoastal waterway. We were all standing at the back of the yacht talking, and suddenly my youngest daughter put her foot through the rails and kicked her shoe into the water.

We asked her why she did that, and she simply said, "I wanted to see what would happen." Then she got SO upset because she realized that her shoe was gone and cried because she was sure that alligators were wearing it! For the rest of the evening, she walked around with one shoe on telling everyone that the alligator stole her shoe!

We still have the other shoe and laugh about this all the time.

 

[Tinkerbelle739]

There was a HUGE pile of leaves at DSs bus stop last fall. He, being 4, thought it was a great idea to run through the leaves before the bus came. Well, his zipper front Buzz Lightyear, light up sneaker came off and was lost in the leaves. We ran home grabbed new shoes and got him on the bus. Several moms and I poked through the leaves looking, nothing. One mom had the thought that if we came back at night and poked through the leaves maybe we would see them flasing. No luck. A month later, after the leaf-sucking truck came by, there by the street sign was my sons sneaker! The crew had heard the story of the missing sneaker and found it. They left it with a note that said, Dear little boy, Dont let your mom buy you zipper shoes that dont zipper!!

We havent bought a pair since!!

 

[OhMari]

I know this is dangerous, but I thought it was funny at the time.

There were basketball tennis shoes hanging off electrical wires. The local girls team lost their last game of the season and they all looped their shoes over the wires. It looked pretty funny, but the girls got in a lot of trouble and the electric company had to take them down.

That's my shoe story.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Lol, I like this thread!

I just bought a pair of clogs and they have really high, wobbly heals. I tried them on with shorts and I liked the way they made my legs look so I bought them. I wore them to work yesterday and I felt like I had to concentrate on balancing everytime I walked. It's kind of like being in yoga class.

I like them, but they sure are hard to walk in!

You have six pairs of Berkies, thats pretty cool!

 

[bubbleprincessmom]

My darling bubbleprincess has always been a drama queen and fashion mavin. When she was about four I was having her get dressed for church..here's your dress heres your shoes. Well she comes out of her room with very much "a LOOK" and proclaims..."Oh mommy....I CANNOT possibly wear these shoes with this dress they DON'T match AT ALL!!!!"
well alrighty than...I posted this little story on a fanwebsite that I frequented at the time and one of my friends responded by sending her a pair of Stuart Wietzman (sp) sample shoes...turned out she works for him in NY and loved DDs attitude. She was probably the only four year old with designer shoes in her playbox!!!

 

[taekwondo mom]

Oh no not shoes my DD 11 loves shoes she just got 6 new pairs at foot locker Sun.. we are going to need a suit case just for her shoes for our land/ sea trip to Disney on Oct.21st

 

[Disney Doll]

Check out the website badshoe.com.

Very funny!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

At DH and I's wedding, I had decided that even though nobody would see them (but me and my dressers) I was going to wear this really cute pair of silver sparkly sandals with high heels. They were VERY cute but by the time all the picture taking and whatnot was over, my feet were KILLING me. So, between the end of picture taking and the start of the reception, I dashed into the bridal dressing room and changed into a pair of ratty socks and my oldest sneakers, which I'd worn there that day. Nobody knew I'd done it (they thought I'd run to the bathroom) and when it was time for DH to throw the garter, everybody was shocked I was wearing ratty sneaks instead of nice shoes. My mom just laughed because she knew I hated to wear 'nice' shoes for too long.

There's also a story my mom tells about a couple who got married at her church that's shoe funny. The bride was VERY tall for a woman (six foot something)and wore like a size 11 shoe. Somewhere between the brides' house and the church, her fancy shoes got lost. While she got dressed, a bridesmaid ran to Kmart (5 min away) and bought her a pair of fuzzy slippers because that's all she could find in the right size. So there was a bride who ended up wearing fuzzy slippers under her gown.

TOV

 

[IMGONNABE40!]

This happened to me at while I was attending a conference in San Fransisco

We went to a formal, black tie event. I had on a gown and really uncomfortable new shoes. After the event, someone who had a hospitality suite had an after hours party in the hotel where I was staying. A bunch of us went up and kicked off our shoes, danced a bit and drank a bit...

Fast forward to the next morning. I had returned to my room and my gown was neatly laid out on the extra bed in my hotel room. At the foot of the bed were the shoes I had worn. I went to pack them up, and noticed that the sole of one shoe was a lot more worn out then the other. Odd, I thought. On closer inspection, it turned out that I no longer had a pair of shoes, but one of my shoes and one belonging to somebody else . The best part is that they were both left shoes!

Well, I returned to the hospitality suite to exchange the shoe. No answer at the door. I left the shoe that did not belong to me outside the door of the suite and returned to my room to finish packing. Meanwhile, a friend of mine appeared with my shoe and said the woman whose shoe I had was in such and such a room and would I bring her shoe back to her? I went up to the hospitality suite to get the shoe..but it was gone. I felt awful. I let the woman know what happened to her shoe and we both contacted housekeeping about the shoe. No luck.

I returned to my home in Cincinnati and mailed a check off to the woman to replace her shoes. About a week or two later she sent the check back saying that the hotel had found her shoe and mailed it back to her.

Despite the motto "what happens on a trip, stays on a trip", this story continues to follow me. I guess the image of me stumbling back to my room in a formal gown and wearing two left shoes is a bit amusing. I let them think that, but truth be told, I carried the shoes (I think).

 

[Shelby5514]

For my boss' Birthday a co-worker had her husbands Barber Shop Quartet come into our store (major dept store) and serenade her on a BIG sale day. As the crowd was gathering, she looked down and noticed she had two completely different shoes on. Different style and color. She was wearing a short skirt so there was no way to hide it. She was mortified to say the least! After the song she quickly went to the shoe dept and bought a new pair of shoes!

 

[Judy from Boise]

great stories !

I remember at my first USC quad party, I had my shoes stolen and had to walk back to the dorm barefoot ! I also had this one pair of Mary Jane type clogs that i would always "walk out" of at least once per lecture every time I wore them.