I’m considering a fine for random shoe littering in my house. :) Who’s with me?
This is not a post about shoes, per se. This is a post about the littering of shoes … all over my house.
We have ‘a mat’. All shoes downstairs are supposed to be on ‘the mat’. This is a little like Sheldon Cooper’s seat on the couch. Shoes go on THE MAT.
However, one of my children, who shall remain nameless *cough*Emily*cough* likes to randomly drop her shoes wherever she’s been.
I mean wherever.
Anywhere.
Hallway.
Bathroom.
Bedroom.
Hallway.
Did I say Hallway?
It’s an obsession with this kid. She absolutely, positively, cannot get her shoes on THE MAT the first, second, third or fourth try!
I find them everywhere.
Flip flops.
Sneakers.
Sandals.
Socks.
Oh, yeah, the socks. If there are shoes that require socks, the socks are often (but not always) WITH the shoes.
Then again, the socks are often left in a random location by themselves, too.
Like, in the kitchen.
By the sink.
By the stove.
On the stairs.
Everywhere.
Everywhere.
Everywhere.
Everywhere!
And so I believe it’s time to pay the piperβI mean, Mom. It’s time for my kids to learn that shoe littering, which they already know really littering is illegal, is now a crime!
There will be no more shoes left in the middle of walkways.
There will be no more shoes left in the middle of the halls.
There will be no more shoes left for me to trip over in the middle of the night.
Oh who am I kidding?
But you know what?
If those shoes start to magically disappear, I’ll betcha they’ll come asking and maybe then I can convince them to stop.
Yeah.
Right.
And pigs can fly.
D’oh!
How about you? Do you have a shoe problem in your house? Please share (because I don’t want to be the only one!)
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! I feel ya! Sydney, my 7 year old, is the worst, but my husband and Lydia (11) are bad too. Yes, mine are left out on occasion (my flip flops always seem to end up under the coffee table), but as I am the one who has to pick it all up, I feel exempt from judgement. We have a small ranch house and everyone has a shoe bucket. How hard is it to put the shoes in a bucket?!? I just don’t understand. Granted I finally got my husband (we’ve been married for almost 17 years!) to stop leaving shoes right outside the closet door inches from where they belong. I love him and all but sometime I just don’t understand him.
Kids and husbands are crazy like that aren’t they! π And woohoo for 17 years. We’re just about to hit 18! π
You are sooo not the only one with this problem. My boys do not stop at shoes though–t-shirts, pants (really), jackets litter with almost as much abandon. In my son’s room, his underwear dots the landscape in series of 8’s or infinity symbols depending on which angle I’m seeing them at…all within a few feet of his laundry basket that remains blissfully empty. Gah!
Boys!! LOL Why do these people not ‘get it’? π LOL
I like Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory too! I was the kid with the random shoe locations at my house (still am).
LOL Naughty, naughty, naughty! π