How does one buy shoe laces these days?
A few months ago I wanted to buy the new simple black shoe laces for my shoes, as one of them was torn apart. Easy? I'd go to some store and buy it, but I now work in a place where there is nothing near where I could buy the shoe laces, and at home - well, let me say that my after work/weekend life schedule is such that on weekday mornings I come to the office to rest.
So, after a couple of months I realized that I'm not getting to a store any time soon. Decided to buy them online. Where? Ebay, of course: pretty much everything is available there and cheap too.
What's the length of the needed laces though? We have the measuring tape at home, of course, but... did I talk about my after work and weekend schedule? :) Basically, in those few cases when I actually remembered to measure the laces - it was of course when all kids were in beds, and the tape was in the bedroom where the baby sleep. I wouldn't dare waking her up and possibly ruining the whole night sleep for all of us just because of the shoe laces!
Sigh...
I ended up taking one of the laces with me to work to measure it there. No measuring tape or ruler found in the office. Measured it in A4 paper sheets, then calculated how many inches that is. Now I know that shoe lace is ~3.6 A4 pages long, which also happens to be 40 inches.
Bought the laces on Ebay. Received them a few days ago, yay! Only a few months after I... started getting the. Now it's just a matter of finding the time to put them into the shoes. At home. Sigh.
