We have a shoe thief. She is shameless and
persistent.
We used to leave our shoes on a sheltered verandah,
far away from the street. We preferred quiet entries and wanted to postpone the
wear and tear on timber floors. It worked for 10 years, living this way.
It takes a brave person to open the rickety gate,
walk down a floodlit path and repeatedly steal every pair of size eight women's
shoes lying on that verandah. Given three people in the house share a shoe
size, our thief was spoilt for choice during 2010.
