This well-organized pile of shoes, lotion, sea salt, an empty corn starch container, a blue mug, a dirty glass, Lipton tea bags, leaves, and a large, wet hacky sack like ball is currently at the bus stop on Broadway, across from SCCC.

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What is it? A shrine? An offering to the bus stop gods? A vague 9/11 memorial? Art?

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22 replies on “What Is This?”

  1. It’s an alien abduction.

    Whenever one sees an empty pair shoes on the sidewalk the person who was wearing them was snatched out of them by alien beam transport while standing still.

    If only one shoe is found the person was in mid stride.

  2. I guess you’ve never seen an obsessive person root through a garbage can and lay out its contents on the sidewalk. Crazy people do crazy things… like this.

  3. @13 I think that’s water splashes from that knit ball in the upper left corner, which was wet. I assume it’s water, at least. It didn’t smell like pee. But I guess that doesn’t mean it’s NOT pee.

  4. @18 I didn’t, like, pick it up and smell it, no. Ew. Gross. All I mean by that is that stale pee has the knack for being smellable if you’re even a few feet away. And I didn’t smell any stale pee in the air.

  5. Looks like someone got the boot from their buddie’s house, and left their stuff they had to take back (that they obviously they no longer wanted) near (not at so they couldn’t get blamed for littering or looked at oddly by the other riders) the bus stop. Or else they cleaned out their office and didn’t feel like bringing all their cubical crap on the bus back to the U-District.

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