Things Are Strange...

You know, I understand some things just don't get sold anymore. Their popularity wanes, they get overtaken by new technology, they're just not needed any longer. But why do some things that are still needed disappear?

"The mister" wears high-topped boots (shoes) that support his ankles, partially because he likes supportive shoes, partially because of the osteoarthritis in his ankles. As anyone who wears boot-type shoes knows, they can often be difficult to get on, something that is helped considerably by purchase of a shoe horn.

That is, if you can find a shoe horn. Do you know shoe stores don't sell shoe horns anymore? I was in the mall over an hour, checking shoe stores (including ones that sold high-top or boot type shoes) and shoe departments. One did have an itty-bitty shoe horn, flimsy plastic and not even five inches long, scant use for this size man and this size shoe.

I finally found a long metal shoe horn -- at a shoe repair shop. Sheesh.

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