Alan has had a thing about shoes for quite a long time now in that he seems to see them as a treasured possession. Whether this is because he is 79 and would have remembered days when the kind of shoes he has now would have been unheard of, I don't know. Anyway for the past couple of weeks he has become obsessed with shoe laces. They have to be the exact length either side and I caught him cutting them to size. This means that they cannot be re-threaded which he doesn't understand. The other evening, he'd taken all the laces out of his shoes and I was glad that I'd noticed because it would have meant chaos in the morning when the sitter would arrive, the taxi would arrive to take them to the care home and my client would be arriving. I envisaged me having to re-thread shoe laces.
I told a trusty friend and she suggested shoes with velcro fasteners. So yesterday afternoon I took Alan into the city (which he normally would hate - but needs must) and he came home with a pair of shoes with velcro fasteners and they are quite smart shoes, a pair of boots with zip fasteners (they were tremendously expensive) and a hat He has refused to wear any of his hats even though he loves hats and so I let him pick his own and he looks very dapper and he came home a happy chappy
He christened his shoes and hat this morning by going to get the newspaper.
Oh by the way, I also bought a couple of packets of spare shoe laces and now he can do what he likes with them, whenever he likes
Love
I told a trusty friend and she suggested shoes with velcro fasteners. So yesterday afternoon I took Alan into the city (which he normally would hate - but needs must) and he came home with a pair of shoes with velcro fasteners and they are quite smart shoes, a pair of boots with zip fasteners (they were tremendously expensive) and a hat He has refused to wear any of his hats even though he loves hats and so I let him pick his own and he looks very dapper and he came home a happy chappy
He christened his shoes and hat this morning by going to get the newspaper.
Oh by the way, I also bought a couple of packets of spare shoe laces and now he can do what he likes with them, whenever he likes
Love