We got our second little cardboard shoe today. The first one was ripped up in frustration a year ago.
I mentioned to the woman at the shoe shop that DS2 was trying to do up his laces and she asked if I'd got a card before so I said no because I thought it might be handy and I figured it was easier to lie than to explain that DS1 had ripped the last one up. DS1 then asked the woman what she was getting and she told him so he said "we used to have one of them" then she bought it out and gave it to DS2 who said "that's the same as the one one DS1 had"
I guess it would have been easier to explain that the last one was ripped up after all.
That would so happen to me.