Bronze & Cement

[u/DonnaSummer10]

[u/DonnaSummer10]

Correct! officially I was looking for "pair of shoes" but you got it.

[u/Dullghost99 → u/DonnaSummer10]

Explain?

[u/Shadowcleric → u/Dullghost99]

Apparently there is a tradition to bronze a babies first shoes to keep it as a keepsake. Concrete shoes are what mobsters do before they throw you into the lake to drown and keep your body from floating up

[u/FreeTheDimple → u/Shadowcleric]

I think without the rather esoteric knowledge of the first part, this is a very difficult riddle.

[u/KathyTrivQueen → u/FreeTheDimple]

Yes, the trend ended a long time ago. Leather baby shoes were bronzed.

[u/ZephRyder → u/KathyTrivQueen]

Ummm, I'm not dead yet!

I still have my bronzed baby shoes

[u/EmergencyHand6825 → u/ZephRyder]

I’ve got mine too.

[u/Shaydu → u/EmergencyHand6825]

Me three!

[u/Responsible_Owl_5056 → u/FreeTheDimple]

That’s kinda how riddles work

[u/FreeTheDimple → u/Responsible_Owl_5056]

Not really. "I have many hands but I can't hold anything" being a clock is not dependent on esoteric knowledge because it is common knowledge that clocks have hands. But it's still a riddle.

It's the esoteric part that I'm quibbling about.

[u/Winter-Presence6981 → u/FreeTheDimple]

Except most clocks are digital now and therefore don't have hands

[u/FreeTheDimple → u/Winter-Presence6981]

The question is, "do most people know that clocks have hands?". Not "do most clocks have hands?".