teleWORKS saves the day
Posted by Perry Lewis on Thu, Oct 15, 2009
Dateline: Far East. I was on a hike a few days ago; but not just any hike. It was with a group of people on an adventure tour of China, and we were climbing a part of the Great Wall near Xi’an that is not often visited. For some, it was the highlight of the trip as we scrambled over a broken path with a view of the wall all the way to the horizon. We were alone and about a mile into the hike, when one of us “noticed” that the sole of his boot was flapping in the breeze. Somebody had some tape, but it wouldn’t hold for more than a couple of minutes and there was no way this guy was going barefoot…
Like the Boy Scout I am, I realized that the shine-in-the-light gizmos I had snagged at an industry trade show just might be useful. These were little Velcro fasteners that I often use when biking to keep my trouser leg clean. I hooked a couple of them together ‘commando style’, and voila! They held the sole onto the boot. Indeed, they worked for the next 7 miles, and our little band of happy hikers finished the day thanking teleWORKS for their nifty lime-green doo-dads. I hope they’ll send me some more….