If you’re at all like us, you’ll have spent countless frustrating hours minutes seconds in pent-up rage trying to figure out how your socks get wet even though you specifically take pains to ensure they don’t. Well, worry over your pretty little shoes no longer, because the best and brightest of the world’s physicists have solved this most terrifying of dilemmas.

As it turns out, the secret is to

make shoes like car tires, with treads that push water out and away from the direction of the step

Or, you know, walk slower.

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Sidewalk Science: How Water Splashes Atop Your Shoes [LiveScience]
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