Remember "gloves on a string"?
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Good idea in its way, stopped me losing gloves every other day.

Remember the coat pegs at school? The mad rush to grab your coat and vacate the building at home-time?

Anyone else ever manage to get the glove-string looped round that peg while putting their coat on? Ended up on my tiptoes, hooked to the peg, and laughing so hard I couldn't free myself. The teacher had to come out of the classroom to help, giggling the whole time.

Nobody else did that, did they? Just me, then.

*shrugs*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 17 Apr 2008, 20:13, 4 replies)

Bill Cosby called them "idiot mittens".
He told of handing someone a snowball, then pulling on the other hand so they smacked themselves in the face.

Too bad it wouldn't work, as I love the imagery...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 17 Apr 2008, 20:48, closed)

I know I never did that.
And it certainly wasn't with the gloves threaded through the sleeves of my coat either.

cut me some slack, I was 5 at the time.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Thu 17 Apr 2008, 21:10, closed)

Carpets hooks
At my old house, the carpet had been removed from the stairs leaving those vicious little carpets hooks. I was running downstairs once when my shoelace caught on one. I imagine my amusement at dangling one legged on the stairs was quite similar to yours! ;)
(Kohoutek, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 21:11, closed)

idiot mittens!
i fucking hated them! i can't stand the feel of anything woolly on my hands or feet and, even now, i do not own a single pair of gloves or socks.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 0:55, closed)