XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   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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