Most young people/teenagers seem to take off their shoes without untying the bow. Do you see that as well and why do they do that?

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Most young people/teenagers seem to take off their shoes without untying the bow. Do you see that as well and why do they do that?

I do it. Just because it saves time I guess, I usually slip them back on without untying and retying them too.

I do this. I'm lazy. So lazy that I'd rather not undo them now, than save future me the hassle of doing it too put them back on again. Where possible, the laces just stay done up for ever.

I do this, haven't tied up a pair of trainers for about 20 years. Who could be arsed with fannying around tying up laces every time?

I do it, my teenagers just don't bother tying the laces at all

I do this and I'm not a young person. I've been doing it since I was one though!

As to why....I'm lazy?

I'm 44 and do this......sorry Mum!

I do this. I wish I was a young person

I'm 49 and still not untying my shoelaces. Can't be arsed.

I'm 50 and I've always done this

Shoes - even trainers - used to be made out of quite stiff leather. You had to really break the back down and ruin them to be able to slip them on and off. Modern shoes are made out of much more flexible fabrics - even my kids’ leather school shoes have padding around the ankle, flexible soles etc - so you can slip them on and off without bending the shoe out of shape. So why wouldn’t you, I suppose?

I do this too. I am very young, 45.

I do it too. Laziness, but it's annoying because I have to undo them to get them on. Either way it's a pain, I'm usually in a rush to sort the kids/get their shoes off etc so just ski the undoing part, but then of course I have to get them on again later.

My shoes now have elasticised laces so that I can slip my feet in and out.

That's a seriously strange question OP.

What possible reasons have you come up with so far?

I mean reasons that aren't the completely obvious one.

I do this, I’m not young, it’s more comfortable to have the laces loose enough to make it easy to slip the shoes on & off.

When I was in school it was SO uncool to tie laces, you had to just tuck them inside your trainers. It was practically the law!

I do it, usually for reasons of laziness but also because it's hard to get the right tension on my running shoes so I don't like to interfere with them once they're tightened comfortably.

I do it too at nearly 50 😆

I've always done this and I'm mid 40's!

Precursor to slip on shoes.

Surely most people do this; it’s not just a young person thing.