Zip

We’ve made easy things sound like childish things. Why do shoes have laces? Velcro has existed forever, and children have Velcro shoes that are great, and then they grow up and suddenly we’re told that convenience is for children. Every piece of clothing that has buttons could be slip-on or zipped. Every single one. Buttons look great, and so do shoelaces when they’re not dangling around because they are so ridiculously inconvenient. Children wear helmets all the time. Then they grow up and not dying is for children. Going around with rollerblades is cool as heck and yet, grownups don’t do much of that. On the other hand, it seems that every time we do something that was intended for children, we ruin it. Remember when scooters were super cute devices and not ankle-breaking machines invading every sidewalk? So maybe we should keep trying our shoelaces before we come up with a way to make velcro shoes dangerous and overconsumption-centric. Bleh.