# Yet another "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361 "2013-02-15T03:08:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/61 "2013-02-15T17:41:16Z")
Missed my flight September 11, 2001. Our happy family boarded the Titanic. Broken man finds dog: mutual rescue. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/62 "2013-02-15T17:46:58Z")
Never trust a man with pudding. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/63 "2013-02-15T18:05:37Z")
Some of these are great. (that’s not a story!) “That’s not Dad, is it?” Mary started spotting. She carried on. Weedy flowers have reclaimed the spot. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/64 "2013-02-15T18:07:59Z")
You people really came up with these yourself? I love them, some real gems there ! Each is, indeed, a story. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/65 "2013-02-15T18:17:13Z")
She stopped crying long before impact. Hot tears fell like Arizona rain. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/66 "2013-02-15T18:24:29Z")
Standing at the precipice, I jumped. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/67 "2013-02-15T18:35:30Z")
The voices only whisper now Ten fingers, three hands ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/68 "2013-02-15T18:43:27Z")
He looked down on her body. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/69 "2013-02-15T18:47:22Z")
“Intruder! … … Reeva? Reeves?” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/70 "2013-02-15T19:12:19Z")
Through macrame she became God’s vessel. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/71 "2013-02-15T19:21:28Z")
He lied. She smiled through it. Strangely, the flowers bloomed again. He was a good dog. Mostly. He absconded with the child. The trite scandals masked foulest treasons. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/72 "2013-02-15T19:41:46Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > My cousin really and truly put an ad like this in a local paper after her third husband’s death: > > Expensive pistol, cheap. Only used once. :eek: I hope that’s a sign of a good sense of humor. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > She stopped crying long before impact. > . . . This one makes me feel the story the same way that the Hemingway sentence does. Well done. * * * Paraphrasing Sharyn McCrumb: “If dying quietly alone weren’t cheap . . .” And I keep thinking that if I could just find the right noun, this one could be disturbing: “Pardon, are you using that \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ .” I’ll have to keep thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/73 "2013-02-15T19:44:40Z")
Pardon, are you using that gun? ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/74 "2013-02-15T19:45:48Z")
Zombies? Bugs et’m, took a week. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/75 "2013-02-15T19:49:47Z")
Pardon, are you using that: toothpick? ticket? cane? tourniquet? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/76 "2013-02-15T19:52:34Z")
He died as he lived – pathetically. Fortunately, I left before the explosion. Rock and roll saved her life! Wolverines don’t make good traveling companions. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/77 "2013-02-15T19:59:46Z")
Only one bullet-hug me _tight_. The clown laughed and died. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/78 "2013-02-15T20:19:15Z")
Our hopes dying with the flame. (Don’t want to give away the ending.) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/79 "2013-02-15T20:21:24Z")
Pedigree collapse had formed his destiny. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361/80 "2013-02-15T20:26:02Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Guy hunts whale; ship sinks. Can we warp back in time so you can be my 12th grade English teacher? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-thread/650361.md?page=5)