MISSION (NEWS 1130) – No, she didn’t kill him. Yes, she has forgiven him.
A Mission woman says she’s lost almost all of her shoes — an estimate of 40 to 50 pairs — after her boyfriend accidentally donated them to a thrift store due to a miscommunication.
“He feels terrible,” says Cassandra Converse. “Sandals, ankle boots, ballet flats, boots, everything. Everything.”
Converse explains the unfortunate donation happened last month, shortly after a move. Some of her things were still packed in boxes, in the back of her van.
“He was gonna go do a few errands and I said, ‘these boxes are giveaway, these just stay in the van,'” she adds.
“I don’t know, he just kinda glazed over that and then he just gave everything in the van. There was one box that got given away that I still don’t know what was in it.”
But Converse didn’t realize almost all of her shoes had been donated to the Value Village until a day or two later.
“So we’re kinda having this conversation [and he was] like, ‘so I gave away all your shoes’ and I was like, ‘pardon me, you did what?! You gave away all my shoes?!'” Converse says with a bit of a laugh.
“And he’s like, ‘yea it was kinda little weird, I thought it was weird that you were giving away some of those pairs.'”
By the time they realized the mistake, called the thrift store, and went back, Converse says almost all of her shoes were gone. In fact, she only managed to get one pair back.
“There was a moment when [my boyfriend] was giving the boxes away and he was like, ‘this is a lot of shoes to giveaway,'” she says, adding her boyfriend now regrets not giving her a quick call at that moment.
While Converse tried to get some of her shoes back, making a post in a community Facebook group that offered to pay for any women’s size 7 shoes bought at the Mission Value Village, the attempt was fruitless.
But Converse isn’t dwelling on the loss too much.
“It sucks cause there are some [shoes] that are sentimental and there are some that I’ve had forever and some that are super comfortable,” she says.
“But in the end they’re shoes.”