I hate my shoelaces

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I just bought some new shoes, some Timberlands, which have the stupidest shoelaces. I love the design but the damn things keep untying themselves. The left one, I have to re-tie it many times a day, on some occasions every 500 feet or so. No matter how tightly I tie it, it invariably unties. The right one is not so ornery, but usually needs one re-tie a day.

I refuse to double-knot them because I believe in a hassle-free untying experience. How the heck is a defective shoelace even possible? It's like it's too slippery and doens't hold the knot. I could buy new laces, but nothing I've seen available comes close to matching the shoe. Is there anything that can make a shoelace "tie" better?

Heh, if this is all I have to worry about I think I'm doing all right. But it bugs the snot out of me!

 

[tomywishbone]

Let me guess; the laces are round not flat? Round laces don't work. The person who invented them needs a beat-down... not a severe beat-down, just a good thrashing.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Let me guess; the laces are round not flat? Round laces don't work. The person who invented them needs a beat-down... not a severe beat-down, just a good thrashing.

well... the cross section is... oblong I guess. It's not totally round but not flat either.

 

[nakedfrog]

Round laces work in my Docs just fine.

 

[RedArmy]

Dude, my left shoelace doesn't stay tied either. I have to tie it at the beginning of every class when I'm at school.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the world's missing left socks? It's a conspiracy!

 

[hellfire88]

Wow, I know where you're coming from giantpingbunnyhead. I have some timberland shoes, and both of the shoelaces untie themselves all the time (oddly, the left one more than the right)....even if I double-knot them. No idea how that happens, and yes, I really do have to tie them again every 500ft or so. I gave up and threw them in my closet, and wear my rockports now instead.

 

[tomywishbone]

Please post a picture of your lace or laces. I'll get to the bottom of this fiasco!

 

[feralkid]

Rosin FTW.

 

[tomywishbone]

Originally posted by: feralkid
Rosin FTW.

Rosin? Rosin? We ain't talkin' about no aliens! We're talkin' 'bout shoe laces. Please try and stay on the subject. Thank you.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Please post a picture of your lace or laces. I'll get to the bottom of this fiasco!

Here is the offending shoe!

 

[deerslayer]

I don't know if you guys are aware of this, but if your shoe strings are that problematic, you can just go ahead and replace them. Many stores carry replacement shoe laces.

 

[tomywishbone]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Please post a picture of your lace or laces. I'll get to the bottom of this fiasco!

Here is the offending shoe!

Interesting indeed. Those are in fact, the puffy roundish laces that I suspected were causing your grief. My theory is; the lace tries to re-puff itself, after you have compressed it via the tying process. It re-puffs, and then becomes loose and eventually untied. You will battle that lace for years, if you don't get new ones. And then you'll be insane, and you'll have an untied shoe. That ain't good.

I'm planning a big trans-global crusade against PRLS (Puffy Round Lace Syndrome). Watch CNN & the BBC for updates.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I'm intrigued by this problem and like to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I can't get new laces! Nothing else will match! The resulting imbalance would shift the space-time continuum so unfavorably that llamas would fly. Well, either that or it won't. But the only laces I can find are nasty looking. The shoe stores up here stink.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

Double knot ftw. I have to do the same thing to some tennis shoe type things I bought.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
I can't get new laces! Nothing else will match! The resulting imbalance would shift the space-time continuum so unfavorably that llamas would fly. Well, either that or it won't. But the only laces I can find are nasty looking. The shoe stores up here stink.

Um... you don't think black shoelaces would match?

 

[50cent1228]

i tie perfectly all right

 

[ballmode]

i want my post back

 

[DainBramaged]

Sounds like you need to call Invisible-Midget Busters, sister company of Ghostbusters.

 

[blazerazor]

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Let me guess; the laces are round not flat? Round laces don't work. The person who invented them needs a beat-down... not a severe beat-down, just a good thrashing.

AGREED. I love to wear flat shoes around when I lounging, like Vans, and they have jumped on this Round Shoelace thing. And I hate them. Seems most shoe companies are doing it now too. I just replace them.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Round laces work in my Docs just fine.

Same here.

And my Timberlands.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Let me guess; the laces are round not flat? Round laces don't work. The person who invented them needs a beat-down... not a severe beat-down, just a good thrashing.

My boots (Red Wings) have round laces, I don't double knot them, and I've never once had them come untied on their own.

Good boots.