This brings back unpleasant memories of the phrase heard by so many of us who have lived in New York. “OK, buddy, your shoes or your life!”
He claims that muggers took his shoes at three in the afternoon on one of Manhattan’s busiest corners (55th St and 5th Ave).
He presumably made his way home in his socks, assuming that they were not stolen.
The dream of an Idiocracy is coming true.
Wish they’d stolen Santos, left the shoes.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli …