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It's all happened to us sometime... "Oh, just follow me" seems like a simple enough instruction to follow, but differing walking speeds, maze-like office buildings and crowds of people can often make this a pretty difficult instruction to follow, resulting in much confusion and lost-ness.
But no
longer! These shoes, with helpful "this way" arrows moulded into their soles are finished with a sponge-textured rubber that leaches water from a storage unit within the shoe, printing a short-life arrow on the floor for the followee to, well, follow. It's relatively un-messy, and prevents lots of wandering about feeling helpless.
This can be switched on and off at the wearer's preference, to stop stalkers.
Sort of like a Roman prostitute
http://books.google...follow%20me&f=false
[mouseposture, May 20 2011]
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My sincere apologies for the pun. It was only semi-intentional. |
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This is a dumb idea. You're going to have numerous
problems, not least the health-and-safety
repurcussions of leaving wet arrows on shiny office
floors. |
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You're going to fit in here just fine.
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Naturally, the first thing I think of here is reversing the arrows to confound and annoy, well, generally everyone. |
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Which is what I usually do anyway. |
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Roman and Ancient Greek prostitutes have sandals that printed "Follow me". They used hobnails to make patterns in the dirt, though, not sponges. |
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Wear heated shoes and give your followers a thermal imager. |
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Reverse the arrows for "Leave Me Alone" footprints. |
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[Alterother] Wait, if you really want to confound and
confuse everyone, how about soles that are reversed,
i.e., heel (pattern) in front? |
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If you really want to confound your pursuers, wear one of each
direction, and watch as they stalk in circles. |
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Mr Buchanan - Ta vairr much, although shiny floors would produce a very satisfying squeaky sound, and would end up quite clean |
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Squeak - I think it makes it semi-baked, because it's more flirty than purposeful.... |
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A water wicking version can be used on rainy days
with little water. A "bread crumbs" version with some
easily visible litter like dots of colored plastic could
be used when there's even more water.
Welcome to the HB and I wish I could bun you an
extra one for your user name. |
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Whai thankyou. It's what I want my favourite band to be called, but sadly they aren't. Hey ho.... |
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I like the water-wicking idea, and I think that the breadcrumb idea could become more applicable to the office if you used the little hole-punch circles? On interview days it would look like it had snowed... |
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Confound my _pursuers_?! Wait, who's chasing me? Is it
FlyingToaster? Mouseposture? Who? |
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Quick, give me a pair of those reverse-follow-me-shoes! |
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