# squeaky shoes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-shoes/36110>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 8, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-shoes/36110 "2000-10-08T02:21:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-shoes/36110/1 "2000-10-08T02:21:18Z")

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What makes shoes squeaky?

I’ve got one pair that’ll squeak so much it’s painful one day, and the next it’ll be really quiet.

And what can be done about it?

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-shoes/36110/2 "2000-10-08T02:53:13Z")

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**Oil 'em**!

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-shoes/36110/3 "2000-10-08T03:06:04Z")

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This came up back in April…  
[The physics of being squeaky clean](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15649)  
That thread was asking mostly about wet dishes, but the phenomenon is essentially the same.

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**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squeaky-shoes/36110/4 "2000-10-08T03:50:42Z")

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They use a floor wax here at Rutgers that I swear is designed to make us dorks look even dorkier. Once a week, for a day or two, it’s SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK down the hall. I solved this by going outside to find some dry dirt and stomping around on it for a bit. Squeak gone!