puzzle

[gusl]

The story of how I lost my sandals is the story of Romeo & Juliet. Decipher.

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UPDATE: chrisamaphone and infryq have the right idea. But it's not clear that they actually understand how I lost my sandals.

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Pun, due to letters_in_sand (personal communication): "They were meant to be together. They were solemates."

Comments

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

You were climbing up to some cute chick's window and got chased away by the dogs?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Far from it. See the update.

[chrisamaphone]

one of your sandals tricked you into thinking it was lost forever, inadvertently tricking your other sandal as well, which was so sad that it got lost, and when the other sandal became un-fake-lost it was sad that the other sandal was lost and got itself lost too.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Very clever. But do you actually understand what you're saying?

[qatar.livejournal.com]

I would guess that, having despaired of ever seeing your lost sandal again, you disposed of its mate, only to have the one you thought lost reappear.

It is up to the director, of course, whether you can (ironically and heart-wrenchingly) still see the disposed-of sandal disappearing in a garbage truck at the exact moment you find the thought-lost one.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

yes, you got it.

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

of course not! she is known mad!

[p.s. this is actually chrisamaphone]

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

see the update.

[kartiksg.livejournal.com]

You and your sandals both killed themselves? Oh wait...

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

"kill" = ?

[simrob.livejournal.com]

Dude, call Poison Control, the shoes weren't worth it.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I am safe without my sandals. But are they safe without me?
See the update.

[infryq]

PROLOGUE:
1 Two sandals, both alike in price and style,
2 In fair Pittsburgh, where we lay our scene,
3 From ancient comfort break to new footwear crises,
4 Where civil soles makes civil feet unclean.
...

You thought the two could never be worn together, being a fashion no-no, and the left sandal kinda looked like it might go better with another shoe entirely. A friar helped you get rid of the right sandal, but then, it turned out the left sandal preferred to be worn with its pair after all... but the right one was already gone. So the left one buggered off to Goodwill. The rabbi ( or whoever ) gave back the right sandal, since the church rag sale wasn't until next month. Lacking its reflection, the right sandal decided to end its life at Avalon Exchange.

309 For never was a story of more scandal
310 Than this of Left Sandal and its Right Sandal.

[Exeunt.]

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Very nice. But realistically, how did Gustavo lose his sandals? See the update.

[infryq]

Bah -- there are infinite variations on "lost one, chucked the other, found the first one, and having no further use for it, chucked it". Fill in your own realistic details. If you're going to be melodramatic enough to say that it was the story of Romeo and Juliet while giving no thematic hints, you're not going to get people to guess the full story in all its glory unless you really believe that each of your shoes was a member of one of two feuding families in 16th century Italy.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

yes, you've got it. (No further details expected)

I like your poetic style. Is it after Shakespeare?

[letters-in-sand.livejournal.com]

WOW. I applaud you.