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(Message started by: maryl on Jun 17^th, 2003, 3:05pm)

Title: Boots
Post by maryl on Jun 17^th, 2003, 3:05pm

Rhythmic breathing pushes you forward as the scenery glides past. You have a long ways to go but concentration is on your side. It is the only thing separating you from the pain in your feet. Freakin new boots, you shoulda left them in the car. You've got other boots but the boots you've got on are too heavy to carry and the scenery is too sparse to hide them. How can you ensure that if you leave them you won't lose them?

Title: Re: Boots
Post by BNC on Jun 19^th, 2003, 12:22am

1. A question: why would I loose them? Why not leave them in plain sight, and come back for them later? Are you affraid of someone taking them, or forgating where they are?

2. A suggested solution: ::[hide]Dig a hole; Place boots in hole; cover hole; mark in a way that you'll recognize, but others will concider natural.[/hide]::

Title: Re: Boots
Post by towr on Jun 19^th, 2003, 2:56am

[hide]if they're to heavy to cary, then nobody will be carrying them off anyhow..
But how can you walk in them if they are so heavy?[/hide]

Title: Re: Boots
Post by James Fingas on Jun 19^th, 2003, 8:08am

[hide]Just put them in the bottom of the boat.[/hide]

Title: Re: Boots
Post by maryl on Jun 19^th, 2003, 12:02pm

BNC, yip, some sly wippersnapper mite jist rip 'em there boots off, thin I'd rele bees stuck.

tower, theys just good heavy hikin' buuts s'al

James, I donts reckon there bees any boat

Leo...I's guess we's can ferget the insurance bit

Title: Re: Boots
Post by BNC on Jun 19^th, 2003, 12:42pm

Hmm, I guess you could leave them at a distance from one another, and hope that the sly wippersnapper won't bother with a single boot........ or will he?

Title: Re: Boots
Post by maryl on Jun 19^th, 2003, 12:59pm

on 06/19/03 at 12:42:58, BNC wrote:

Hmm, I guess you could leave them at a distance from one another, and hope that the sly wippersnapper won't bother with a single boot........ or will he?

That's a good question.

Title: Re: Boots
Post by James Fingas on Jun 20^th, 2003, 9:17am

It seems t'mee that yee's not a'walkin'

But what ye'are doin' is summat a mystry. I was thinkin' yee was rowin', but perhaps ye's skiin'? Or usin' one o' dem push-cars fer de railway?

Title: Re: Boots
Post by maryl on Jun 20^th, 2003, 1:27pm

Sorry James, I should have been clearer, BNC got it.

Title: Re: Boots
Post by harpanet on Jun 21^st, 2003, 2:34pm

Another possibility, where you won't have to leave the boots behind, is to use the laces to tie them around your ankles. You may not be able to carry them but, if you can wear them, I would expect that you could drag them.

Of course they'd get a bit scuffed :-/

Title: Re: Boots
Post by Zeke the Geke on Jun 23^rd, 2003, 1:53pm

on 06/19/03 at 12:42:58, BNC wrote:

Hmm, I guess you could leave them at a distance from one another, and hope that the sly wippersnapper won't bother with a single boot........ or will he?

Wouldn't a sly whippersnapper be quite curious about a single boot lying around somewhere? And if she was of the taking type, wouldn't she search very hard to find the other boot which MUST be lying around somewhere, since no one ever leaves just 1 boot anywhere?

Of course, there is still the curious case of occasionally seeing a single sock, shoe, or pair of underwear along the side of the road. One wonders how those events happen (though I've never been the kind to investigate further, unless I'm getting low on undies and its not wash day yet...) ;)

Title: Re: Boots
Post by James Fingas on Jun 24^th, 2003, 9:13am

I don't think a passing dog with a liking for footwear would have any conniptions about taking a single boot...