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A Short Story About Shoes
This is a story. I’m telling it in the form of a script for a play.
SCENE: A house. Your typical house. It could be your house. It could be my house. The owner is a human. I’m just going to call the owner — OWNER. There is another human, a guest. I’ll call this human GUEST.
DING-DONG.
OWNER: Hello! Welcome to my house. It’s nice to see you. Will you please remove your shoes? We don’t wear shoes in the house here.
GUEST: Hello to you as well. It’s quite a lovely day and I’m excited to visit you.
OWNER: Great. Just don’t forget about the shoes. There is a nice little cubby to the side for your shoes.
GUEST: Did you see that sports game? One of the teams won! It was great fun.
OWNER: Well, yes — I saw that sport ball game. Ummm….shoes? Are you going to take off your shoes?
GUEST: Oh, ha! The shoes. No. I’m not going to take them off. I’m not a sheeple. Taking off shoes is fake. There is nothing good about taking off your shoes. You have been lied to about this stupid no-shoe thing.
OWNER: You do know that it’s raining outside, right? Everything is wet — especially your shoes. Just take them off.
GUEST: Nope. I saw this guy’s house one time and they were wearing shoes…
