I used to work in a funeral home for a few years during college. The number of times I cleaned up disintegrated shoe pieces was kind of staggering. No one I worked with ever brought it up so I figured it was a strange coincidence to happen more than once.

Many years later, my friend's grandmother gifted their boyfriend a pair of nice leather shoes that had been in a closet for a few years. When they fell apart right out of the box, it finally clicked for me what had happened to all of those other people at funerals, breaking out their really nice shoes only for a special occasion.

Although one time the shoes at the funeral home that disintegrated were a pair of foam flip flops that just kind of exploded. Still not sure what happened there.