I bought a pair of cool kicks (isn’t that what the hip kids are calling them these days?) last week. Today was the first I wore them out in the rain. I was looking down while I was walking through the parking lot and I noticed that with every step there was water shooting up from the front tip and onto the top of each shoe. My shoes were actually getting *MORE* wet because of this than from the puddles in the parking lot!
They work just like those car tire commercials where they show you how the tread channels the water and spits it out away from the car for traction.
My guess is some damn enviro-hippy-freak in always-dry-California designed these shoes and made them from recycled tires.
Oh well. When the tops of the shoes rot away from all the moisture, at least I can probably smoke the laces.