Semi-logical Speculation

We are a family of story-tellers. We don't even do it on purpose. Stories just come our of imagination, curiosity, nosiness, semi-logical speculation.

Sometimes we'll be driving in our car and we'll see something strange. Someone will say, "Hey! Did you guys see that (insert strange occurrence)?!"And someone else will start to make up a story about the origin of the strange thing. A typical drive can sound something like this:

Person 1: "Hey! Did you guys see that lady? She was standing waiting for the light and she only had one high-heel on."
Person 2: "Hmm. That's weird. Maybe she lost the other one."
Person 1/3/4: "Doing what?"
Person 2: "Maybe it got stuck in the mud or something."
Person 1/3/4: "Where would she be walking through the mud in high-heels?"
Person 2: "Maybe she owns some horse stables and she was just going to check on the horses before she went to work."
Person 3/4: "But one of the horses was sick...and so she had to go tell the vet but her car was broken so she had to walk. But one of her heels got stuck in the mud in the stable. But the horse is really sick, like dying, so she has to hurry to get to the vet before he closes his office."
Person 1: "Why wouldn't she just call the vet? Or why wouldn't she just call someone to give her a ride to the vet?"

By this point, we've long passed the one-shoed lady. Who really knows where she was going or what happened to her other shoe... No one really knows what her life is like, what her name is, who she loves, what she believes in...and it really doesn't matter. Because the next time we pass that corner she was standing on with only one shoe, someone in my family will un-doubtably say, "Hey. This is the place we saw that lady with the sick horse."