to thtink that no one ever tripped over their shoe laces?

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My mother is obsessed with this! If you have a slightly trailing lace you must sort it out straight away lest it trip you up and break every bone in your body.

I have never, in almost 45 years on this planet, seen or heard of anyone tripping over as a result of an undone shoe lace!

AIBU to think that this is "a swans wing can break your arm" and "going out with wet hair gives you flu" territory?!

Not tripped over, but standing on one end or the other foot and nearly falling over.
Just tie them up!

I thought tripping over undone shoelaces was fairly common? I am known for being a tripper-over though.

I was always tripping over my laces as a child.

I am still very clumsy though. And in fairness the problem would have been avoided completely if I hadn't been too lazy to retie them.

Not tripped over, but standing on one end or the other foot and nearly falling over.

Thats what I mean, and I have never ever heard of it happening!

Fairly common I think. Easy to stand on the loose lace and then fall when you pick the other foot up!

I have tripped over my shoelaces many times, but I can also trip over nothing so I'm not sure whether I help your mother's case.

Oh no, I'm with your mum, I'd trip over mine inside seconds if they came undone. And I have done

I have some socks with a tie at the top made out of a silky ribbon.

Silky ribbons do not stay tied up when attached to feet. I tripped over numerous times before retiring those socks to the ‘only if nothing else is clean’ pile.

it's pretty common and can lead to nasty injuries.
just tie your laces

well I did it the other day ( stood on an undone shoelace) and tripped. I was actually just trying to put my shoes on at the time. I should probably be better at it by now :)

yep done it...seen my siblings do it too.

Its rare, even with straggly laces but worth the effort of tying them up.

I know someone who destroyed her ankle (needed several operations and tonnes of pins in it) while trying to wipe dog shit off her foot by rubbing her feet together. Falling over is normally just fine...but sometimes it really really isn't.

Yes my DD broke a bone in her foot.She had the habit on not tying laces on her trainers but tucking them in -it used on drive me wild - and sure enough the lace came out and she tripped and fell off the edge of the pavement. I was not overly sympathetic tbh initially and we thought it was just bruised and sprained,but turned out to be a fracture. Sorry but your mother's correct as far as I'm concerned !

Fell down stairs at the weekend doing it luckily only hurt my pride.

Tripped over mine at the age of about 8 while running and went head first in to a stone wall, gave myself concussion and ended up off school for a week...

I've done it a couple of times

I have done and worse when someone accidentally stood on one and caused me to fall over! I’m with your mum. Sorry op!

Recently running my trainer must have come undone and I smashed into the pavement .

Your mum is right, I've tripped over many times in one particular pair of boots that I no longer wear :-(

I'm with your mum on this. Maybe because I also had that 'fear' of tripping over my laces instilled in me when I was a toddler . A loose shoelace makes me feel very uneasy when I see it on others.

I've done this many times over the years, most recently a couple of years ago. Grazed knees in your 30s hurt much more than they did at five, and no one picks you up and gives you a biscuit for being brave!

My husband did on the platform at the train station. Scared the daylights out of me. Just do them up!

I’ve done it. But then I am pretty clumsy.

Iv done it before, and my daughters fell over before.. not often tho only once

Happened to me all the time as a child, yet my eldest child always has his undone and has never done it... which is probably why he continues to have them untied!

I did, when I was at school, running down a hill fell flat on my nose, had to go to the hospital and have a facial X-ray......I was lucky I didn’t break anything.