Gravelal

Gravelal: noun. A type of open-toed shoe designed to be worn on small rock fragments. The soles of these shoes are typically thicker than the soles of sandals and the straps are more rigid. While it would seem simple to tell the difference between sandals and gravelals, a well-worn gravelal can be very difficult to tell from a sandal. Mistaking old gravelals for sandals is a fear shared by many countries, which has resulted in extensive regulation to make sure that shoe manufacturing companies clearly distinguish between the two products so it is clear even as a gravelal ages that it is not a sandal. Many of these companies believe that following such regulation is too much work and instead do not produce gravelals at all, resulting in much of the population not being able to get gravelals which will likely be the cause of up to 14 accidents in the next 10 years. There are UN security and human rights meetings scheduled to address this issue in 2015 that will hopefully result in a productive change of SIR (Shoe-Identification Regulation).