I'm out in New Mexico and I'm getting ready to head back to Atlanta in few days. But before I go, I'm going to go to a mass at the Santuario De Chimayo.

Supposedly, the dirt there is...I don't know, sacred or magic or whatever you want to call it. But also, there's a legend that if you throw one shoe from a sick child in this hole there and keep the other one with him or her, they'll be cured.

Full disclosure: I don't really know if I believe this or not. But if you want to PM me and work out a way to send me a shoe, I'd really like to try it for you.

 

You... don't?

 

 

*hint*

It's bullshit.

 

Me, I was just being diplomatic about it.

 

I'm really into particpatory legends. When I travel, I try to find stuff like that...I swam this cursed section of the Potomac, spent the night under the Georgia Stonehenge, called the roll of the dead at Oakland Cemetery...that kinda stuff.

Hadn't been able to find anything here, but thought I'd give this a try.

 

You're much better at that sort of thing than I. I suck.

 

Oh, I know you're into those. Just... how many have turned out to be true, in your experiences so far?

 

Oh, yeah, none.

But hey, hope springs eternal. And they're always fun when I'm drunk.

 

I'll stick with medical science, thank you very much....

 

We are constantly thankful that we don't have a seriously ill child . I am sure we wouldn't miss my daughter's overactive gag reflex, but at least she is overall healthy.

 

That's worth an old shoe, isn't it?

 

He'd be better off taking the shoe and donating it to a charitable organization that could put it to good use.

 

But, what would we do with out all the vomiting?!?  

And drippy has a point. As usual.

 

Yeah, but if we cure that, she might not feel the pressure in high school to move beyond...well, you know.

Just saying.

 

Hint: blowjobs

 

I'm disappointed in you.

You couldn't have come up with a better lie to cover for your shoe fetish?

tisk tisk, indeed.

 

"Baby, I know you can't do that, but if you love me, you should want to do the other, right? I mean, I did score a touchdown in the game tonight? Don't you think I deserve something?"

 

Worth a shot...

let me find those cleats

 

Ack, you're making ME gag!  

Truthfully, these things don't work if the person doing the praying (in this case a prayer in the form of sacrificing a shoe) and the person they're praying for don't have absolute faith that it will work. Simple, and as elusive, as that.

--Moony