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Why do Irish men take so bloody long to put on their shoes?
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IF YOU’RE A grown-ass adult, putting your shoes on before leaving the house should be fairly quick and painless. After all, you’ve spent your whole life putting your shoes on and it’s not that difficult!
Unless you’re preparing to climb the Himalayas and need to don a pair of sturdy mountaineering boots, the whole process should take, oh, twenty seconds.
But for some men, it seems that putting shoes on is an ordeal that involves some of the following:
Yesterday, New York Magazine enlisted journalist Max Read to explain why men take so long putting on their shoes.
Read attributed men’s inability to put their shoes on in a timely, efficient manner to a few things — laces being a pain in the arse to tie, lack of dexterity and good old-fashioned vanity.
He also presented this rather stark statistic.
Following the article’s publication, people took to Twitter to confirm that men do indeed take a needlessly long time to put their shoes on.
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So, does this phenomenon exist in Ireland?
We asked around TheJournal.ie and DailyEdge.ie to see whether or not the women of the office had noticed men taking a long time to put on their shoes.
Some admitted that they had never particularly noticed it in their partners, while others had stories to tell that rivaled Vietnam war tales. (“He can’t seem to stand on one foot while hoisting on his shoe on the other one – he always hops around like a demented flamingo.”)
One of the men in the office acknowledged that the process can take a long time, but only because they leave it to the very last minute.
So, reader, we ask you…
Do Irish men take ages putting their shoes on?
Poll Results:
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