Local Radio Teaser

[oldmisery]

A woman bought a pair of very expensive shoes and then proceeded to cut half a centimetre off one of the heels. Why?. Again answers are obscure or require lateral thinking.

[squarebear]

What about she wanted the shoes to bury a relative in but they were too big for the coffin? A bit morbid I know.

[Dilbert53]

Did she have one leg shorter than the other

[Old_Geezer]

She was totally insane, and held a job at her local radio station.

[Mamyalynne]

was that the thickness of the price label she was removing.

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps there was something 5mm high she wanted to fit on one of the heels to do something as she walked. Perhaps a set of wheels so she could scoot all around the place on one leg.

[oldmisery]

The answers are given on Sunday,The presenter gives cinema tickets for the first correct answer. I've won once or twice only now the rules are changed to stop anyone who has won recently from claiming them. So I try to find the answer first for devilment, which really p*sses him off. I attempt to phone as soon as the question is set and find I'm disconnected in seconds. So I'm playing Kafka type games, no one wins no one loses.

[scotman]

She already has a similar pair of shoes except that the heels are lower. She likes these shoes very much. One of these has become damaged and she is replacing it and needs to match the heel height.

[cupid04]

She had one leg shorter than the other!

[Postdog]

So she could sell them on cut price?

[costacurta]

She didn't have a leg to stand on?

[factor-fiction]

She had an identical pair already except that half a centimetre had broken off one of the heels making the first pair useless. By buying a new pair and cutting off a piece of heel she know had two pairs of shoes she could wear.

[oldmisery]

Thanks all for the postings I'ii go with the scotman/ factor thirty lateral drift. Many thanks.
p.s. for costacura she'd be stumped (sic) with that answer.

[oldmisery]

Sorry, I'll not I'ii. Freudian slip thinking of scotman.

[oldmisery]

The answer was, as scotman and factor30 suggested, a damaged existing shoe. Which, by lowering one of the new shoes, resulted in two pairs of wearable shoes.

[squarebear]

Surely, she would only have one pair of wearable shoes, as she has only one matching pair now?

[weecalf]

Fair enough but why would she not just wear the new shoes until one wore down .The way it is now she does not have a decent pair of shoes ..One shoe is new the other is worn .Why could she not have have cut the piece of the first pair to match .Too much money if you ask me.