Posted by droppedit on August 27, 2001 at 11:50:10:
A mysterious situation of one shoe losing: my wife’s trendy high-heel shoe shortly vanished in a hotel room in Switzerland.
She wore on that business trip pair of beige suede pumps, with thin and wide 4 inch heels, and mildly squared toes at front. Unbelievably, one of them vanished in hotel room on second day of her stay. As she was ready to get out that morning to meet her boss and colleagues in the lobby, she dipped her right foot in right pump, but left pump was not in sight. She checked everywhere tiptoeing on left foot, first calmly, then in growing frustration. She checked even under the bed and furniture. But, her left pump had unbelievably disappeared in that small hotel room. As her boss called from the lobby telling everybody was waiting for her, she had to slip into her pair of trendy, dark red leather, 2 inch platform mules with open toes at the front. She had brought them to wear in hotel room as slippers, and to also use them when getting out on free time. In fact, she had worn them during previous afternoon and evening going out for a walk around the city. And, that was the only timeframe when her pumps were left unattended in the room.
As she wore her mules as a replacement for pumps, she knew their color would not match that of her clothes and nylons, but there was no time to change and she joined her colleagues wearing her eye-catching red platform mules. Her male colleagues did not miss the opportunity to comment on her mules, and what a conservative business environment Switzerland was for that kind of “liberal” footwear. She was too embarrassed to tell them what had actually happened. During meetings, she tried her best not to expose her mules, thereby spending most of the day sitting.
Back to hotel in the evening, room keeping had neatly arranged her room. But, her right pump still sat all alone on the floor. She was determined this time to find the missing left pump. She searched every corner of her room for almost an hour, inside drawers, confined corners of closets, and even bathtub. But, she could not find the missing left pump. Since she was worried about colleagues teasing her, she decided to keep this odd incidence to herself, and did not place a complaint with the hotel. She had to leave next morning wearing her red mules again. Her beloved pump, only right one that is, was packed in her luggage.
Her explanation of the strange incidence: one of room keeping or room service guys (or perhaps, gals) with a touch of shoe fetishism must have really liked her high-heels, and could not resist taking one. She puts no blame on him (or her): that was a very sexy and gorgeous piece of footwear.
Unfortunately for one shoe fans, this posting is the only other one in which lost shoe could not be found at all. All others to follow are mostly kicking off or walking out of shoe incidences, and missing shoe was subsequently retrieved.