> Last night at work, I found a pair of shoes which somebody had thrown into a rubbish bin.
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> They weren't ruined in any way. They weren't even wet or muddy. They were in perfectly good condition. Also, these weren't cruddy $15 sneakers, these were top quality hiker/walker-type shoes of a brand and style which sells for about ten times more than I'd ever be prepared to pay for shoes.
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> Why would somebody throw these away?
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> Having considered a number of possible reasons, the only one I find realistic is that some guy threw his friend's shoes into the bin as a joke, or something like that, and either the friend didn't notice or they didn't remember to get the shoes back again by the time the ferry trip was over.
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> If anybody has any ideas about this, I'd be interested. Why would *you* throw away a pair of incredibly expensive and perfectly good shoes? I'm particularly thinking of reasons which would prevent anybody else from wanting to wear them.
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> Brunnen-"because ... um ... they happened to be my size"G

I don't know why anybody would do that, but I do know that there are people who would. In 6th grade, there were kids in my class who bought new pairs of $100 shoes every few weeks. Fashion is stupid. I think the reason fashion exists is simply because most humans are SHEEP. You know that cliche(sp?) "Well, if Billy jumped off a bridge, I suppose you would too?" Lots of kids would. Whoever threw those shoes away probably did it because their parents bought them and they weren't exactly the same as everybody elses.

- Atha"SHEEP"leon