I’m a big fan of a café
called Urban Vintage. I’m aware that its name is exactly what a writer would
call a café in a story making fun of Brooklyn hipsters, but it provided a warm,
friendly office away from home when I was working on some particularly stressful
revisions. The coffee and food are also delicious.
I was on my way back from
Urban Vintage when I spied this thing of beauty:
Someone had thrown a pair of
shoes tied together over the street sign. I don’t know if some kids stole these
shoes from another kid and threw them up there just to be dicks. I hope that’s
not what happened.
Instead I like to imagine a
dude walking down the street who became suddenly, venomously angry with his
shoes. He was like “MAN WAS NEVER MEANT TO
WEAR SHOES!!” Then he Hulked out and ripped off his shoes (which somehow got
tied together in the midst of all the Hulking out), and flung them hard as hard
as he could at the nearest street sign.
I lost my iPod a while ago,
so instead I think about shit like this on my walks home.
Maybe it's some kind of Monopoly-themed street art. Like "aw, crap, I landed on St. James Place with my shoe, and now I owe somebody $14."
ReplyDeleteIf I ever see a dude in a top hat on that street, I'm going to be like, "You now owe me $14. I may be willing to barter if you have a railroad you can trade," and see where that gets me.
DeleteOnce I saw a pair hanging from a telephone wire 40m up in the air in the middle of a parking lot; I was quite impressed.
ReplyDeleteThis dude must travel all over the world, Hulking out and flinging shoes in rage.
DeleteI was once told that when you see a pair of shoes thrown up over a street sign or a power line or some such like that, it means you can buy drugs on that block. I have no idea if that's true or not.
ReplyDeleteAww I hope that's not true. I hope it's Monopoly-themed street art like Jake said above. Still, it's a good thing you warned me before I tried telling some dude in a top hat that he owed me $14. That could have ended really badly.
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