Lady Laura 
Crispy Gnome Chomsky@cmconseils Probably because fear of abandonment issues, I take pictures of orphaned gloves - approaching 1000 - and this is the best time of year for it. Nobody loses a glove that's on their hand, but many a glove shoved into a pocket will fall prey to my lens. I'm here for it.
brielle bouquet v2@rose @cmconseils i used to take pictures of single shoes when id come across them. i used to go for lots of walks. and i found a surprising amount of single shoes. i probably lost most of the shots, and i used to be too broke for a phone so i missed lots of them. but its interesting to see someone else with a similar habit. if i were still walking everywhere, id still be doing it
@briellebouquet @cmconseils Every lost shoe implies a story in a way that a lost glove never will, because - how does it even happen? I don't see many, though.
@rose @cmconseils that is literally why i started doing it lol, you're fully in my head at this point
@rose @cmconseils i climbed up onto a roof of a little multi-unit commercial complex once just to like. be weird. and hang out up there and smoke weed. and i found a single fucking shoe. a fair number in alleys. the odd one downtown. kids boots here and there. i suspect most of the adult ones were from unhoused people
@briellebouquet @cmconseils My favorite lost glove shots are from when I happen across one of my partner's gloves - she is challenged to keep hold of her stuff - such as one I found on a Cleveland OH sidewalk that I only later learned was hers. I've even got one of my own glove, retrieved an hour after it fell our of a pocket at a bump in the road on a bike ride. I celebrate the universality of lost gloves, eyes open that some people can't afford them.
Never found one on a roof, though.
@rose that's neat!
most people dont go on roofs in fairness. i dont anymore either bc im getting too old to climb things and HRT vastly diminished my upper body strength.
my theory for the roof shoe was, someone got bullied and the bully threw their shoe on the roof :(
@briellebouquet Do you have a theory for why there are so many tied pairs of gym shoes hanging from utility wires? Either that's, again, bullying, or it's some obscure part of culture for which I missed the memo? Possibly both, but I've been missing cultural memos since 1952.
@rose cultural one. ive seen people joyfully attempting to throw shoes up onto wires. one group was doing it where i could see from my apartment. they were out for over an hour. i checked back the next morning and they had hooked a couple pairs hahaha