Has an untied shoelace ever caused you to trip?

Also to clarify, I'm not talking about being on an escalator, moving walkway, or around industrial equipment or anything like that.

It has been known to happen, yes.

Yes, but I feel that I should specify that the shoelace in question was saturated with LSD sometime before I ingested it.

Yes. On stairs. I'm the person who'll just as easily trip with my laces tied though tbf

yeah, lots

never came a cropper on a banan skin tho

it me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzhjnjXc2o

the fuck is that?? that's not the Weebles Wobble song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKcAWO_IznI

this is how you do it

I stepped on a rake once, it was hidden in long grass. It kind of snapped up and hit me on the cheek because I'd averted my gaze from its incipient peril.

let's not fight about the weebles while there are elephants dying out there ffs

I used to have this exact annoyance, just got better at tying my shoes tho.

I have had a black eye from stepping on a rake just this year. it was interesting seeing faces changing from concern to stifled laughter when I told people how I got it.

Shoelaces got way too long. I have to doubleknot them and then tuck them in on the sides.

I've had two family members step on rakes this year and both of them said "I thought that only happened in cartoons."

i have probably tripped on my laces about ten times in my life, sometimes with near-disastrous consequences, but i also share OP's irritation at strangers coming up & telling me about it.

Never thought abt it in those terms but I guess its true I would rather risk serious injury or death from a shoelace disaster than have a brief interaction with a stranger. I'm comfortable with this tradeoff.

would be happy to have a stranger warn me about a lurking rake though

I am clumsy and can trip on nothing at all but as compensation I have wonderful balance and hardly ever fall (two notable exceptions being instances where I pretended to trip and/or fall for the amusement of others and wound up overshooting the comedic mark and actually full-on eating it, thereby resulting in much bigger laughs and bodily pain than were ever intended).

stepping on a rake in england is a genteel mishap but in australia for instance 92% of rakes are of course deadly poisonous

If strangers are so concerned about my shoelaces, they can fucking tie them.

I've had two family members step on rakes this year

my mom stepped on a pitchfork-like garden implement and it went THROUGH HER FOOT

I have tripped on a shoelace, but a warning from strangers doesn't need to include the possible outcome of tripping. Just tell me my shoelace is untied, thanks.

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i have tripped on my untied shoelaces. i have also slipped on a banana peel. neither caused me to completely fall over at least

tie your shoes dirtbag

I almost slipped on a banana peel once and, after the adrenaline kicked in, kind of shuddered as I realized the threat was real

i can't abide a sneaker not firmly gripping my foot at all times and will re-tie if i detect the slightest hint at a lace slipping. i also double-knot.

my man

map otm

Map so otm. My 13 yo however likes em untied.

I don't double tie for aesthetic reasons. Cant remember the last time my lace came undone inadvertently, feel like you just get some laces that are overly smooth and tend towards loosening more and I haven't had any like that in years

My laces are constantly coming undone - but cheap laces will do that.

i have extremely narrow feet so any shoe which is not firmly tied down is falling the fuck off at the first opportunity

THink I bought specifically long laces to replace a pair that came apart on a pair of low boots that I wear quite a bit. & for some reason keep finding them coming undone. THought I had double knotted them too so can't quite work out how that could happen.
Maybe I need to find a medium length lace taht would be less likely to trail but still be long enough for more tahn a shoe's amount of laceholes.

LOL almost happened today!

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I read once somewhere that slipping on a banana skin was invented by Charlie Chaplin. He wanted to show a character slipping on horseshit in the street (which must've been a very common occurence I suppose) but the studio wouldn't allow it, so he came up with a compromise.

I was going to say horseshit isn't very slippery but isn't that how Pierre Curie died?

Judging by dogshit, horseshit is almost certainly slippery when fresh.

Yes, but can you judge it by dogshit is surely the question?

Where is science when you need it?

I'd heard that banana skin being an ersatz (or euphamistic) horseshit thing before, think it came up on QI at one point. Hadn't quite heard the process of translation that wound up with the banana skin though.

Judging by dogshit, horseshit is almost certainly slippery when fresh.

I'll never again think of Bon Jovi without this sentence coming to mind.