The Walking Dead Survival Rule Of The Week: The things we don’t think of
By Liam O'Leary
4) Don’t wear loose-fitting clothing. (A.K.A. The “Doubleknots” Rule)
Your clothes will probably be one of the last things you’d think about in a zombie apocalypse and, normally, I’d say that would be wise, however, if you neglect to wear the right kind of clothes, you may be surprised to find your bid for survival cut frighteningly short.
Why? Well, because if you choose to wear loose clothing, you’re giving the dead a free handle with which to grab you!
Loose shirts, jackets, hoods (While useful, just know they can be a liability), and “ghetto pants” (For lack of a better term) can all provide the outstretched hand of a zombie something they can easily grab and use to pull you into their maws or a means by which a hostile can hold you and use you as a human shield.
I imagine you may argue that you like to wear such clothes and, honestly, you’re well within your rights to do so, but, just realize that, by wearing them, you’re making it easier for the dead to grab you. If a zombie grabs you and either yanks you to the ground or trips you using your clothes, you’ll have no one to blame for getting bitten but yourself.
And speaking of tripping, the reason I call this the “Doubleknots” rule is because of the loose bit of clothing that inspired it. While thinking up The Rules, it wasn’t uncommon for me to walk around with my shoelaces half untied. One day, I stepped on them and tripped myself, and it made me realize how easily that could have gotten me killed if there were zombies chasing me. You’d feel like a massive idiot if the thing that got you eaten by zombies was leaving your damn shoelaces untied, or, in the larger context, because you knowingly chose to wear loose clothes a zombie could grab.
Get the picture?