Lone Shoe

I was driving to work one morning and I saw, in the middle of the road, a single, solitary, lone children’s shoe.  It was lying there, on its side, oblivious to what was going on around it.  Seemingly oblivious to the fact that it had found itself there in the road among armadillos (who did not quite make it) and debris freed from the confines of an automobile.

This shoe, lying there with no real understanding, aroused in me many thoughts.  I was curious where it came from.  I wondered if it was attached to the foot of some child or if it found its current resting spot from a pile of refuse. 

If it had been attached to the child, what happened?  Was that child a part of some hideous accident or did this shoe end up where it lay due to the carless kick of said child?  If it was the accident, what happened?  Was the foot still in the shoe, separate from the body?  If so, where is the foot now?

If it was just some carelessness from a child, what was going on?  Was their foot hanging out the window and then the shoe was gone?  Was the show thrown out by a sibling in either rage, jealousy, or the innocent act of play where the shoe was a bomb released from a plane but instead of finding its mark it was swooped out the window?

I will never know the circumstances that surround this lone shoe lying in the middle of the road amongst the chaos of traffic going one way and the other.  This shoe will remain a mystery to me.  I thank those who speculated with and for me.  Truth is, we will never know, much like we will never know what really happened to JFK, what is Big Foot, and if Atlantis is more than a great SciFi continuation.