Heh, I mentioned this to my wife a while back, she said that we've had a pair of shoes since our first (of three) that had never been worn, and that shoes at our second hand store are often labeled that way. Turns out, baby shoes are aesthetic only, baby's feet aren't really foot-shaped yet so they're hard to put on, and if they're moving, they're crawling, and shoes make it impossible to use their feet while crawling. The shoes were either a gift, or something she bought before the baby was born... So that story made her think of the naivety of pre-parents and chuckle, I had to explain why people found it sad, and her response was "those people have never tried to put baby shoes on a baby".
Which is to say, I think that her take makes this even more apt response... the people getting sad about this have never tried to put a rover on the moon.
I think the sentence could be made more correct by replacing shoes with booties. Baby booties are the thick, typically woven, often hand-woven footwear used to keep a baby's feet warm.
They're often gifted by family to the expecting parents and sometimes kept as a keepsake, so someone getting rid of never-worn booties works a little better. Though it's typically considered distasteful to sell handmade gifts.
Of course, the sentence seems to work fine as a story regardless of its correctness, based on its enduring popularity.
hatsix|1 year ago
Which is to say, I think that her take makes this even more apt response... the people getting sad about this have never tried to put a rover on the moon.
terribleperson|1 year ago
They're often gifted by family to the expecting parents and sometimes kept as a keepsake, so someone getting rid of never-worn booties works a little better. Though it's typically considered distasteful to sell handmade gifts.
Of course, the sentence seems to work fine as a story regardless of its correctness, based on its enduring popularity.
thfuran|1 year ago