When the shoe is on the other foot
What happens to the shoe that was originally on the other foot?
Does that move to the foot that the first shoe was on?
And do these feet belong to the same person?
A person who is now wearing their shoes on the wrong feet?
Or have two people swapped a shoe each?
And are now wearing odd shoes?
Or is there only one shoe at play?
And has someone stolen a shoe?
But just a singular shoe?
And are they now hopping away from the scene of the crime?
I appreciate I’m overanalysing a phrase
That applies to a reversal of circumstance
I’m just not sure which, if any, of the above scenarios
Really serves as a suitable illustration
Of a reversal of circumstances
Perhaps if the shoe was on the other foot
I’d have a better understanding
Of the dynamics at play
James Proclaims! 
If it is right that the shoe goes on the other foot, would you have a left foot? On the other hand, should you really be talking about gloves?
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Too cerebral for this sou- person. I’m lost in the shuffle somewhere.
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You shoe made that complicated. Is that last shoe blue? If so it’s mine!
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While we wait for the other shoe to drop, I have a gem from B.B. King called “The One Shoe Blues” which Little Proclaims might enjoy: https://youtu.be/J8rLuk2PoMA
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Shoo!
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I think Littler is preventing you from getting enough sleep.
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I think ultimately “a shoe on the other foot” means you have assumed another person’s left and right shoes, and have them on correctly. No matter who is wearing them, it is very hard to make progress in life when you have shoes on the wrong feet…so there’s that.
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I loved both ‘shoe’ posts, James!
Interesting dilemma. Shoes and feet are of utmost importance to this senior citizen!
I also think of the ‘walk a mile in another man’s shoes’ suggestion. Because at the end of that one, you are a mile away. With his shoes.
As comments for the other post are closed, I’m going to do that here…
On the ranch, whenever we bought a new pair of boots, the first thing we did was wear them in the river. Got them good and wet. Then wore them all day. By the end of the day, they were perfectly molded to one’s feet! Trust a cowboy!
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