Friday, November 02, 2007

Origins

Know the phrase, wait for the other shoe to drop? Apparently there's an interesting story behind this particular phrase.
An inn dweller is dead tired when he returns to his room late at night. As he begins to undress, he removes a shoe and drops it on the floor. Realizing that the big thud must have woken up the fellow in the room below, he takes off the other shoe and puts it down gently. After a considerable time a voice screams from the room under him, "For God's sake, drop the other shoe! I want to go back to sleep!"
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