[Flieger]

I usually buy the cheapest running/walking/athletic shoes from Big 5 as long as they don't look terrible and are not uncomfortable. Almost always they have obscenely long laces. I always just buy new laces and swap the ones that are round (string covered in fabric) for more durable flat braided ones. But this time the laces just barely squeaked by so I left them. Partly because they were blue and went with the shoes better than my normal flat white laces.

I still need to tie the right laces lop-sided so as to keep them out of the grease on my bike chain wheels.