WHY?
WHY do shoe manufacturers keep making lace-up boots with fucking zippers down the side? IT INFURIATES ME. Are people so lazy that you can’t undo four rows of laces then do them back up? It’s not like you’re wearing thigh-high lace-up boots like they do at steampunk-goth-industrial-raves and you need one hour to undo your damn laces after you get home from the goth dance-party (I assume). It’s like four lace holes. JESUS BALLS.
Self-hating, dog-loving and cheese-eating in Toronto. 
Totally agree. Thank you for expressing this so well (and ragefully).
I am that lazy, to be honest…I avoid boots that I know I’m going to have to lace and unlace when I get to someone’s house and so I’ve been wearing the fuck out of my Fryes with secret zipper technology. Sorry.