On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hate to be too literal but I'm guessing it was a way to offer them to > anyone passing by that needed shoes. > they look like the same size... instead of taking them to a thrift or just > throwing them in the garbage. > > This is happening a lot in my neighborhood... sometimes with notes attached > to the items "free, please do not tag" I don't know. That just doesn't make much sense to me. Were I to give shoes away like that, there are plenty of charities who would take them. If I didn't want to go the institutional route, I'd leave them somewhere other than at the edge of the sidewalk, inches from the street, next to a parked car (although I acknowledge that the car may have parked next to the shoes sometime after they were placed there). Mind you, what makes sense to me likely doesn't make sense to the next guy, so maybe you're right. Maybe they're just being given away and the previous owner is hoping that some poor street person can make some use of them. They look so worn that one wonders if the previous owners were "on the street"... Thanks for commenting, Ann. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
