I have a pair of shoes that\u2019s a little bit difficult to slip on\u2014the shoes fit well when they\u2019re on, but it takes a little work to get there. So it occurred to me that what I needed was a shoehorn.<\/p>\r\n
(No advice needed.)<\/p>\r\n
A couple weeks ago, I went to a grocery store, and I happened to notice that there was a Designer Shoe Warehouse store nearby. So I hesitantly went in, and told the person behind the counter, \u201cI\u2019m looking for a shoehorn. Do you sell those here?\u201d<\/p>\r\n
And they said, \u201cWe give them away!\u201d And they rummaged behind the counter for a few seconds and handed me a long plastic two-ended shoehorn with the DSW logo on it.<\/p>\r\n
I thanked them and left, and have been using the shoehorn ever since; it makes getting the shoes on much easier\/faster. Very pleasing.<\/p>\r\n
I had originally been hoping for a little shoehorn, maybe six or eight inches long; but it turns out that this long one is nicely convenient\u2014less bending\/reaching involved.<\/p>\r\n
I later learned that shoehorns are easier to obtain than I had thought; for example, you can get small metal ones for about $5 on Amazon. But still, this was a nice interaction, and a convenient one.<\/p>\r\n
(I\u2019ve never owned a shoehorn before\u2014never felt like I needed one. I\u2019ve known the idea of them all my life, and may have used one once or twice in a shoe store, but mostly they just haven\u2019t been a part of my life.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19728,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727\/revisions\/19728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}