Shoe skids

Do you remember the shoes that everybody had in like first grade? Not any particular single shoes, but there was one unifying thing about them all. They all left huge rubbermarks on any kind of floor if you dragged your feet. Personally, I loved them. They made gym floors look like zebras. But gradually, like all good things, they came to an end, replaced by the rubber soles we have today, which leave no marks.
Until recently, that is. I have noticed a resurgence of the skiddy soled shoes. There are only a two possible reasons for this.
One is that the younger generation that had these shoes is finally coming into positions of power in the jobs at the major shoes manufacturers. They are then using that power to phase the shoes they remember back in.
The other possibility is that we have somehow lost the technology. In all the industrial espionage that goes on, each company trying to better the rest, some crucial bits of information have been destroyed, taking with it the non skiddy shoes. That has forced a return of the shoes of my childhood.
I'm really fine with either of these possibilities, because they're both awesome, and both mean that hopefully we will see a complete resurgence of shoe marks in just a few short years. Then its straight to the basketball court I go, not to play, but to make it into a zebra floor again.

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