While checking out the Brooklyn Parrots we noticed that there was a pair of Nike soccer cleats hanging high up in the branch of a tree.

The mere sight of them had us unwittingly create a modern day ancient proverb that Fiancee duly noted as sounding like an ancient proverb:
The cleats will hurt when the shoestrings snap…
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