As you guys know, I’m pretty much always on the road but that doesn’t mean I should have to buy new sandals every other week. Admittedly, 90% of the time I’m wearing my flipflops so they do go through a little bit of a battering, however surely the shelf life of these bloody things should be more than 2 weeks?!
Aaaaaaagh
Anyone who has spent anytime traveling in hot countries will relate to this, you’re bag is packed, your fake havianas are almost brand new and you’re walking up the stairs to your hostel room. You take a minor, minor trip, straighten yourself up and continue your trip – wtf?! You stumble forward and the f*cking stem of your flipflop has popped through the bloody sandal again. Pause, take bag off, fight with your flipflop, force it back through the hole (which is of course ridiculously difficult to squeeze through), bag back on, continue, forget about your flipflops.
12 hours later, in a bar, wearing your flipflops, you stumble forward a little bit again, the bloody flipflops pop again, but this time they’re beyond fixing. The hole is too big now so you can’t put them back, great. Now you’re out boozing, with only one sandal, looking like you just climbed out of a garbage skip and you’ve gotta spend the whole night like that.
The flipflops always, ALWAYS break at the most inopportune moment, it’s a fact of life, just like the bread always landing butter-side down and beautiful girls already having bfs, there’s nothing you can do about it.
All we can do is continue to complain about it and keep a spare pare of flipflops in our bag. Happy travels!
Still wondering how to fix those flip flops buddy. Check this article out
http://borderlesstravels.com/?p=1829
I know the feeling. This is a very disastrous event. I always carry extras in my bag.
i try to too mate!
Hey Johnny is it possible that you send me your broken-in, trashed flip flops to Mexico? I could pay postage and can support you good with your trip in exchange. *Serious offer* in case you are curious, I would just like to collect flip flops with very interesting travel stories behind. I can gladly answer any questions you may have, please send me an email to discuss it further.
you can email me at recafr@hotmail.com
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My flip flops lasted me all through SE Asia and then two months around America, and I thought I was lucky to get such a great pair for two bucks!
First day I set down at home, one breaks and a minute later the other one does too. In the airport! Arghhhhh!
that’s almost perfect britt, better than in the middle of a manic city eh!?
OMG this is soooooo true! I can’t tell you how many times mine have broken at the WORST possible moment when traveling.
aaaagh happened to me today!!!
Aaah, the dreaded blow-out that comes with the territory of cheap SE Asian knock-offs… And we never learn! Thanks for shining a light on this important issue
$30 for originals or $2 for the copies – i can see why people are using the fakes!
How irritating! I only wear flipflops as slippers these days (actually it was my nickname for many years the pigeon version of slippers being ‘silipas’ and har har har sounding so much like Philippa, I am not bitter to be named after an item of cheap footwear, I mean, pirates are called something-boots all the time right?) It reminds me of once when I tripped over a small rock in flipflops, the sole flipped the other way exposing my big toe to the said pointy evil rock. Owwwww, that hurt. On the plus side the flipflop didn’t come out of it’s hole.
aaaaaaagh, disaster! the price we pay for comfort huh