I mean, what's wrong with your thumb?
2007-08-06 12:02:33 · 12 answers · asked by inbetweendays 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
LOL! Thanks! :)
2007-08-06 12:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by DEPRESSED™ 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
A shoehorn is used by a shoe salesman to assist in getting a shoe onto a customer's foot. If you think about trying to insert your thumb into the back of a shoe you're putting on a customer seated in front of you, you'll quickly see that there is no safe (or even logical) way to use a thumb!
Shoehorns have been around since at least the fourteenth century. In those days, men wore stockings that allowed them to show off their calves to women, and women wore large-bottomed gowns supported by hoops and undergarments. The men's stockings were very tight, preventing them from bending their lower legs at the knees, and the women's gowns tended to rise high into the air whenever they bent at the waist. As a result, neither sex was able to put their shoes on while seated unless they had servants to help them.
Long-handled shoehorns were invented to allow either sex to put their shoes on while seated. Just look at some of the period clothing to see the problems their clothing offered.
2007-08-06 20:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by NJGuy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a really odd question for the astronomy and space section but actually give them time and NASA will no doubt invent a $14,000.00 per copy improvement for use on the International Space Station. I'm sure there is nothing more annoying than doing a 360 midair flip while putting on a pair of Manolo B.s in zero G.
2007-08-06 21:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nothing, but if humans can find or invent some gadget to make things easier they will.
And using your thumb can hurt if the shoe is particularly hard.
2007-08-06 23:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your question is out of step with this section. I hope it will be your sole question here. I don't mean to be a heal, but don't string us along with more irrelevant questions.
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2007-08-06 20:43:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'd love to explain it, but I signed a non-disclosure agreement.
2007-08-06 23:03:14 · answer #6 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This one gets a star from me!
2007-08-06 19:27:38 · answer #7 · answered by Dutch 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
to keep the sea from flooding on to the shore
2007-08-06 19:45:35 · answer #8 · answered by frank a 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't know? What is wrong with you that you put this in the Astronomy section?
2007-08-06 19:11:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
If someone cuts you off when you are walking, you can blow it while flipping them off!
2007-08-06 23:29:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
they need something alittle more substantial to adjust the .... well, YOU know....
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2007-08-06 19:53:07 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋