March 4, 2008
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Da Feet is Imminent
I don’t know about you all, but I rarely ever see a person stop to tie his or her shoes. I would imagine that people do, so it is strange that I never see someone come to a complete stop, bend down, and retie a shoe. Looking back, I suppose retying a shoe is not all that common. I think there is only one day in every other month where I have to stop and retie my shoe in the middle of the day. It may even be less frequent than that. This does not, however, explain why I never see it, especially in all of the high traffic areas I visit regularly (college, the mall, work, underground railroad, etc.). Some of this may come as a result of the rising popularity of flip-flops and Crocs (which are an abomination to shoe design). The decrease in “no shirt, no shoes, no service” signs may also make retying a shoe less imperative. If the shoe falls off due to negligence, then the person can still be serviced. If it was up to me, we would all go about barefoot like hobbits. We would simply build up a thick callus on our soles (and you could argue on our souls). People with ugly feet, however, will be required to wear fully-encompassing shoes.
Comments (5)
i love the way you think, jimbo1023! its great that you can take such a simple topic like tying shoes and elaborate on it! great post; it made my day!
Ummm, I have to tie my shoes all the time since they are perpetually un-tying themselves. If you ever need to see someone do it, just hit me up and you can witness it one of the thousand times a day I do it.
I do it all the time.. and I see other people doing it too. *shrug* It is probably just coincidence.
You know i only own 1 pair of shoes that require tying, the rest are slip ons because flip flops and crocks are gross, and i never tie them. I tied them when i bought them and knwo i just slip in and out of the. Tieing shoes is for losers.
I have to tie up my shoes pretty frequently. If I was to give a figure on the frequency it would probably be once every week at least sometimes more. The reason is that whoever designed the shoe in the first place are stupid because who would use round, hard shoelaces anyway?! But I always feel like I'm the only one because I've never seen anyone else doing it.