Surreal experiences

So as I was soul searching earlier today Dave was out buying shoes for Bren and Joel whose tennis shoes have worn out. These are the experiences in the Routly household. The boys were invited over to the neighbors to get a "treat". Their house backs up to ours. Shortly after they have gone Bren and Jace (7) rush back and state that Joel (5) has lost his shoe in the compost pile and Bryce (3) is helping him look for it. They go back out to help look. Then Joel comes in and states "I think my shoe is lost forever and I'm sad about that." He was informed that having a lost new shoe was not an option and he had to find it. Dave then left his half-eaten dinner, got a flashlight and went out to help the boys and neighbors search through the compost heap for the shoe. As of this time the shoe is still lost but the shovel that Bren was using to search for the shoe, which he lost during the search, was found. The brand new shoes had been in our house for less than 3 hours.