I have very steep stairs in my house, and the stair treads are particularly narrow, making them incompatible with the wearing of most slippers esp big novelty ones such as those which Kate has posted as, while they look really cool, they'd be too dangerous. I could see myself going base-over-apex all the way down the stairs if I tripped while wearing those.
Narrow steep stairs + big slippers + my general state of sleepyheaded clumsiness = a broken neck for sure
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link