Foot Luggage

By SnowBunny


Life has so many unrealized mysteries.  I have managed, through some bizarre twist of fate, to stumble upon one such incident.  It is far greater than the mating of bagpipes (Bagpipes are alive - There is no way a human could ever be that imaginative to create such a monster who wails so!), and a greater feat than the migration of Salmon to their birthplace...  This miracle goes on literally beneath our feet... 

I shall begin. 

Do you sometimes sit and ponder how you can preserve the beloved footwear you have so ogled and drooled over until they are in the sale when you can get them?  And although they are 2 sizes too small you still die for them. The though of your toes all mangled up beneath your body bears no sway in this decision...Well whilst at a gathering of the drug revenged, beer chugging, bass pumping, tub-thumpin' nature (i.e. Leeds Love Parade) I discovered the ingenious, the miracle, way in which these people overcome this little obstacle. 

Well maybe I should not say the people due to:  

Time lapsed/Beer drunk X drugs taken = Loss of all body functions and co-ordination! 

So I re-arrange the last statement - The individuals feet have came up with an ingenious way to preserve their physical selves and modesty by collecting "Foot Luggage". 

The collection has multiple purposes. However maybe I should explain what foot luggage is all about. 

The shoes, controlled by the feet, head towards an unsuspecting piece of unused (or used if its unlucky) loo roll or discarded bag and transforms in into a brolly like structure, thereby keeping it safe from harm and any damaging marks.  It allows its "luggage" to absorb it until all danger is passed and then tosses it away like a pit bull would a small child’s limb.  

In the mean time it has sacrificed itself the view and hope of ever returning the same way again. However this amazing resource is not all great and glorious. The foot carries its luggage far more distance than its host intended to. This is when things become quite nasty between the usually co-operative pair... 

Such things like gum and cigarette ends may look like willing companions however the truth to the unsuspecting footwear has far more dire a consequence.  This cannot be discarded and continues to torment the limb until exhaustion dragging into its grip all asunder.  However, as nature has it, the torment shall not last much past a day as the offending obstruction withers and dies. 

I have yet to capture either of the objects in a co-operative mood. When addressed with the questions that surround this mystery, the response is nothing more than silence. Maybe its me... maybe I do not understand the way it whooshes its smell at me... maybe it has a far more complex communication wave than I can comprehend. 

I hope in writing this I have opened eyes to allow more insight of these mysteries, and hope in the end to unite all to form a culture devoted to the ways of the luggage - a perfect waste less society.

© SnowBunny

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