Matters related to shoes could just be sooooooooooooooo ennoying.
Please allow me to set the play: walking on the street, in the city, you’re on your way to your first date. And unexpectedly, like the lightning of God punishing wrongdoing miscreants, your shoelace brakes. Damn f****** shoelace. Now everybody is looking at you, loosing your shoe, limping like a drunk man, and laughing at you. Not a good look for your first encounter. So, you go strait to the next MisterMinit and have a look on the shoelaces. Choices are: 45-60-75-90-110-150-180 cm. Now, as you are usually not walking with a ruler in your pocket, the BIG question is certainly not why you are on earth, but which laces are you going to take!
The answer is as easy as wanted: hoping you can still count the shoelace’s holes, 2 pairs of holes 45cm, 3: 45 or 60cm, 4: 60cm, 5: 75cm, 6: 90 or 110cm, 8: 150 and 9: 180cm. Thanks to Mr. Schott for this advice
Enjoy your run to your date.

- And what are you doing this morning?
- It’s a birth.
- Ah… And what sort of thing is that?
- Well, that’s where we take a new baby out of a lady’s tummy.
- Wonderful what we can do nowdays.
From Monty Python’s Meaning of Life

Birth:

1. The process of bearing young; parturition; childbirth. Related adj.: natal 2. the act or fact of being born; nativity. 3. the coming into existence of something; origin. 4. ancestry; lineage: of high birth. 5. noble ancestry: a man of birth. 6. natural or inherited talent: an artist by birth. 7. Archaic. the offspring or young born at a particular time or of a particular mother. 8. give birth (to). a. to bear (offspring). b. to produce, originate, or create (an idea, plan, etc.). ~vb. (tr.) Rare. 9. to bear or bring forth (a child). [C12: from Old Norse byrth; related to Gothic gabaurths, Old Swedish byrdh. Old High German berd child; see BEAR, BAIRN]
Thanks to the Collins English Dictionary, published by HarperCollins