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May 02, 2006
Always take your camera with you everywhere
That way you won't have to turn around and walk all the way home to get it when you find a big pile of free skanky ho shoes all neatly lined up next to the dumpster behind your local lavanderia.
No, I didn't take any. For someone who's digging the faux-crocodile-mule-with-shiny-circular-buckle look, though, this will be an awesome find, because that lucky fashionista can have the choice of yellow, orange or black. Score!
On my way home to get the camera I passed three young ladies who were heading towards where the shoes were, and I thought for sure (making grossly unfair assumptions based on the way they were dressed) that they would be really, really into these shoes, and as I hurried back towards the dumpster with camera in hand I was worried that they would have already upset the lovely tidiness of the shoes and mess up my photo. They also looked like the sort of girls who might beat me up if they caught me taking pictures of them trying on shoes behind a dumpster. Sadly, such a blogworthy shot was not to be had, they either passed on the other side of the dumpster and didn't see the bounty, or they didn't need any new shoes today.
Other blogworthy shots that got away forever these last few days include an ample woman with a gigantic, rock-hard yellow beehive wearing pink camouflage sweatpants and matching pink camouflage jacket and fuzzy slippers, a long horse trailer with four horses all wagging their heads out the windows in the breeze, and a bluejay overextending its jaw in order to carry a beer bottle cap on edge in its beak.
Posted by jodi at May 2, 2006 07:48 PM | categories: athens : dumbass
Comments
Oooooh, Free SkankyHO Shoes! Great picture!
That reminds me of when I used to live in the heart of Gay Dallas . . . you'd see all sorts of, um, things out by the apartment complex dumpster at the end of each month when people were moving out. Free Skanky Ho Shoes, but only in women's size 14.
And stuff like that.
Posted by: chris at May 2, 2006 09:17 PM
Is it wrong that I probably would have taken the pair of black maryjanes (3rd pair in from the right) if they were in my size? Those orange and yellow ones are pretty scary - I'm betting that they are being worn on the floor of one of Athens "mens clubs" right now.. if they aren't swinging from a pole to bad 80's rock.
Posted by: Mouse at May 2, 2006 09:51 PM
Hey...that's where my shoes went!
Posted by: NWJR at May 3, 2006 12:04 AM
And you didn't grab me the orange ones?
Posted by: Sandy at May 3, 2006 07:49 AM
Great shot!
I know some gals who would have scooped them all up -- even as I was screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
:-)
Posted by: Kimberli at May 3, 2006 10:44 AM
Even if I loved skanky ho shoes (and I'm pretty much a middle-aged Birkenstock clog woman when I wear shoes at all, which is honestly quite rare), I would have to be afraid of the potential athletes foot and other fungi. Yeah, I'm weird like that.
Posted by: Snow at May 3, 2006 12:19 PM
Delurking to admit that I would actually pay money for those orange mock-croc- sandals. I just love them.
Posted by: Regina at May 3, 2006 05:22 PM
Hey Jodi! On my blog right now is a photo or a piece that you helped nudge me into. The carved lines that you use in you work made me go into the studio and figure it out in stitch. So, please go check it out. And hey! If ever you want to check out NYC, I live 50 minutes by train and would love to host you to the best of my abilty. I know some awsome art supplies stores, would give you a tour of my (old) workplace, vintage poster art, lithographic bonanza. All that good stuff. Mells
Posted by: Melly at May 3, 2006 10:40 PM
I'll admit it, i'd probably have taken some of those shoes if they were my size, but i'd have to figure a way to disinfect them, the yellow and orange ones you could probably put in the dishwasher! ;)
Posted by: michele at May 4, 2006 02:10 PM
I'm so all about the yellow and orange shoes.
Posted by: itgirl at May 7, 2006 01:02 PM
the orange and yellow mules would've been mine!!!!
Posted by: SHAYLA at May 17, 2006 01:32 PM
Oh wow...that's why i carry my digital camera around with me everywhere I go! lol
Posted by: Emy at May 18, 2006 10:28 AM