XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11
From: this@ddress.is.invalid

Carlos E.R.  wrote:
[...]
> About then or earlier I bough some good boots for mountain sports. I
> think I actually used them 4 times over the years, but the last time,
> the sole got unglued from the rest of the boot, on both boots, like a
> gaping mouth, at the start of the trek. The boots were not even ten
> years old, maybe 6. The rubber was still soft, but the boots were
> garbage material. Fault of the glue, or one intermediate layer that
> decomposed.

  A long, long time ago: Me, the (then still small) kids and my wife,
walking along a narrow mountain path in Austria, me in front. At some
point, my wife and kids noticed a sole on the path. We kept going. But
one of my feet was feeling the stones much more, all of a sudden. You
'guessed' it: It was *my* sole. Went back and tied the sole to the boot
with a pair of shoe-laces.

  Like you, it was an old pair of boots, which hadn't be used for many
years (while the kids were growing up) and yes, they also were 'cheap'
boots.

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