The Oddest Place to Lose Your Shoes is….
… in a funeral parlour.
Happened to me earlier this month. Lost my sandals in a funeral parlour. I had it for less than 4 months, it was very comfy, and it wasn’t cheap.
Looked something like the picture above.
I was at a proclaimed 5-star memorial center, where the funeral wake for my relative was held. As a participant, I had to take off my sandals to wear socks during the ceremony, and my sandals were placed in a plastic bag along with other relatives’ shoes. The plastic bag of shoes would then be transported in a bus which we travelled in to the crematorium. That was the last time I saw my sandals.
There, when the ceremony ended, our shoes were placed in a corner for us to wear again, except mine were missing. I looked at my husband, and told him my sandals were not there. He alerted other relatives, and we proceeded to query the person-in-charge there about my sandals. He, of course, looked surprised, and searched the bus for it. Next, he called the memorial center to ask the staff there to hunt for it. Each time he asked if I had really put my shoes into the plastic bag, or did I leave it in the funeral parlour. I firmly answered that yes, I placed it in the designated plastic bag, and no, I did not leave it in the funeral parlour. Of course it was nowhere to be found.
Wanted to go back to the memorial center to make some noises, but what can they do? It was most probably the work of their general staff, in charge of carrying moving things from point A to B. I just put a silent curse on the person wearing my lovely sandals now, to grow fungus and have itchy feet.
Now I’m wearing my old sandals, which I nearly threw away a couple of weeks before this incident. Lucky me.
Anyone knows where I can find cheap Birkenstocks online?
Tags: birkenstock, losing stuff, papillio
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