SOLVED. Something strange about your feet... they don't touch the ground! [s]

[useFOSS]

Science Fiction or Fantasy.
Read this in 1999 or before.

The only thing I remember is that the main character, a man, tells a woman that there's something strange about her feet that's been bothering him for sometime, but he can't figure out what exactly. Then he puts his head down on the floor and looks at her feet edge on, and realizes that they are not touching the ground!

I'm not sure but this could be one of the novels from the Hitchhiker's Guide series, although it can't be the first two because I've re-read them recently.

[Marilyn]

I don't remember the Hitchhiker's series as well as I'd like, but based on this blogger's summary of "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", it sounds like this is the scene you're thinking of:

"Arthur has set off to find the young woman in the car, and along the way meets a Rain God (no, seriously), and finds her on the side of a road. It turns out her name is Fenchurch, which must be funnier to British people than it is to me (same goes for Ford Prefect). He gets her phone number, loses it, and then finds her again when he goes looking for the cave he lived in on prehistoric Earth, when it turns out to be in the same place as her apartment. In her apartment, he finds that she has the same fishbowl that had mysteriously turned up at his house when he came back. He also finds that there's something very wrong with her - her feet don't touch the ground."

From: http://thelandofsidewalksandcurbs.blogspot.com/2009/12/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-fish-douglas.html

[useFOSS]

Thanks! I'm sure that is it.