Live and Learn

 I am old. I can positively state that wisdom doesn't grow with age.  Times change and old people can't keep up with the changes.  I was given a pair of snow boots for Christmas. This picture shows you exactly what they are.  Note the laces.  Thinking the boot was "hands free slip on," I almost twisted my back trying not to fall.  

I could not figure out how to get my foot down into the shoe.  The elasticized laces didn't expand to allow me to perform that maneuver.  

Just before I resigned myself to returning the gift, I picked up the boot and examined the laces.  I put my finger under the first crisscross to stretch it and much to my surprise, I unlaced it!

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Lo and behold, the lace wasn't elasticized.  It was a real shoe lace, or in this case, a real boot lace.  Undoing the lace allowed the boot to open wide, to receive my foot.

Live and learn.