Lost shoes
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I took my husband's shoes to be re-soled, and then forgot about them until he reminded me a couple of weeks later. I went to the shoe menders with my receipt. They said they had already been picked up! I disputed this and showed them that I still had the receipt, but they were adamant that the shoes had been picked up. They had to reimburse me, but a fraction of the cost of the shoes (really expensive Barkers). Sometime later - amonth or so- I was at work in the charity shop in Teddington, where I volunteered one day a week, when a woman came in to the shop with a donation - of a pair of shoes. Barkers, size 10, with a splodge on the heel, where I had spilt nail varnish! She handed them into my hands. My husband's shoes! Then she disappeared.
Date submitted:Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:08:48 +0000Coincidence ID:6102
