I've never really been that much of a 'gum chewer' I like it on occasion to freshen my breath up, other then that I tend to stay away from it. I had a buddy who's biggest pet peeve was people spitting their gum out on the sidewalk because he was always that guy. You know, the poor schmuck that stepped in it after buying new shoes. If there was gum within a few feet, it would magically appear on the bottom of his shoe. He would flip a lid, I would laugh. It was good times. Just a little gum, scrape it off move on, no biggie... I always thought he was a little over concerned about it... Until the other day.

I woke up groggy and cranky, nothing new there. Stumbling my way down the stairs, fixing myself a glass a juice, I slipped on my shoes and headed to work. As I was walking out the door my left soul felt a little bit different in my shoe. I couldn't quite place what it was. I didn't really think anything of it because it was early, and my brain doesn't function on early mode, plus I was going to change my shoes at work anyways.

So I get to work, start setting things up and go downstairs to change. I grabbed my work shoes, the ones that are more flour and fish guts then rubber and laces, I start to slip them on. As I pull off my other shoes I finally realize what that uncomfortable feeling was. Somehow there was a huge piece of chewed wet gum on the INSIDE of my shoe. And I had been walking around on it for a good half hour to 45 minutes, so my sock was pretty much mutated to the wad. Gum is already pretty sticky and gross, mixed with my sweaty smelly socks... Thats got to be some sort of bio hazard or something... seriously.

It took me a good long while to get the gum off the sock. One of those surgical lasers would've come in quite handy there, instead I was forced to use my fingernails.

..Yes it was gross.

And of course it was next to impossible to get it all off, so i walked around newicks all day with a sticky sock, I cringed with every step I took...

So here's a discussion. Let's all play gum shoe! (yay for puns at my expense)

How on earth does a huge wad of pre chewed gum get inside Darrell's sneaker?


  posted by Darrell @ 2:15 AM