How do people lose shoes out of cars

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Its always a mystery to me when you're driving along and there will just be a random shoe on the side of the road. It's always where there isn't a pavement.

Just how?

I've no idea but it's a conversation we frequently have on the motorway!

I've no idea but I've always wanted to know this,

DH went on a stag do where they decided the stags trainers were shit and threw them out of the coach window.

It's almost always just one shoe which confuses me even more.

I have heard that, in extremis, people use them to collect urine and then dispose of them. Hence single shoes by the roadside.

I think I heard somewhere that a shoe on the side of the road was a sign for drug dealers. No idea if this is true (I suspect not!) but it's one theory! 😊

I've always put it down to being a stupid prank between blokes. Like a couple of workmen driving along in a van and the passenger takes his shoes off to put his feet up and the driver throws it out of the window as a laugh?

I was thinking this the other day. They nearly always seem to be men's shoes. And just one.
So like they are walking along the path and one foot just fell out of their shoe and they just carry on walking?!!

I have always wondered this too, but recently when DH was in charge of 1yo DS2, he put his little shoes on the roof of the car while putting the baby in the car seat - and then drove off.

At the roundabout near our house, they fell off into a ditch - so if it's a tiny pair of shoes you've seen, I'd like them back

I also see guys in vans with their feet on the dashboard, if the window open maybe they fall off? or their mates chuck them out of the window for shits and giggles

My dad threw a shoe out of the window on the motorway once. I was a child and thought it was hilarious. Now I realise he was a fucking idiot (but nothing new there!)

Lots of HGV drivers drive in their socks or bare feet. As they climb up into their cab, they tend to slip their shoes off and leave them on the steps. It's easy for one to fall off and the driver drives away minus one shoe.

I asked my mum this once as a lighthearted throwaway comment and she just said 'think accident' which was pretty morbid 😔

Portkeys. 100%.

I just assumed they were left over from accidents

I’ve heard it was due to accidents - shoes come off with impact apparently. My dh witnessed the aftermath of a crash and said there were shoes in the road then.

MrsJBaptiste yes, shoes hung up on telephone wires to indicate a dealer’s house!

I’ve lost a shoe out the road once

I was driving and my friend who has stinky feet took her shoes off and tried to put her feet on the dashboard. To which I screamed NO NO NOOOOO and opened the window for her, as she scrabbled to put her shoes back on (slip on pumps)

So then she rested her feet on the window ledge instead and then put them out a bit and one just fell out and off

We were absolutely pissing ourselves laughing but there we go

My husband has done the shoes on roof thing too! Bloody expensive pair of walking boot they were too!!

Ah, I knew I wasnt going mad!

But if shoes indicate a dealer's house then surely that's a giveaway to the police?

"There'll always be a single laceless left hand leather boot..." (Flanders and Swann-The Bedstead men)

Dd2 once threw one of hers out of the window. She was 18 months old though. She said ""Shoe fly!"

My daughter was having a tantrum and threw her shoe at DH's head whilst he was driving along a dual carriageway. It hit his head and went flying out of the window never to be seen again.

I’m a motorway shoe loser my car was in an accident so I was given a courtesy car and I was on the way to a christening two hours away when my ds who was about 3 years old at the time discovered his electric window.
He pressed the window down a bit and for reasons I’ll never grasp pulled one shoe off and threw it out the window, while giggling at me begging him not to in the rear view mirror.
Thankfully I was in the slow lane and he was in the rear passenger side so it went into the hard shoulder and it into the motorway.
I’d planned to arrive straight to the venue with about 30 mins to spare so I had a total nightmare trying to find replacement shoes and make it to the church on time

Slightly off topic but my DD lost her shoe between train and platform whilst hurriedly changing trains. She had five minutes to find, try on and buy a replacement pair from one of the outlets in the station concourse. She said at one point she faced the very real prospect of turning up to an important meeting in fluffy monster slippers.

Most of the ones I see are smaller sized trainers, boys I assume, messing about. I did notice that there is only ever one, and soon after that saw one, and a few miles on, the matching one.

There is also the trend for bottles of wee being thrown out of cars.

I have heard that, in extremis, people use them to collect urine and then dispose of them

Boak.