Quite a few years ago, when my son Lance was about three, my husband and I were driving near our home and I was musing out loud about the lone shoe on the road phenomenon. As I said this, I pointed to a boot I spotted. Then, as I looked at the boot, I said, "That looks awfully familiar." My husband slammed on the brakes and said, "That's Lance's boot!" It turned out, the day before when he picked him up at day care, he put Lance's boots on the roof as he buckled Lance into his car seat. We actually retraced the route to the day care and found Lance's second boot. The thing that was surprising was that the boot that I saw, which would have been the second boot to fly off the roof, had managed to stay on the roof for a three mile journey from the day care to (almost) our house.
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