Creative Thinking: Week 1 : Shoes are Always Slippery when Rain

We live in Singapore. Singapore, a small country and city but yet, it’s alive and well organized city. That what make myself want and feel comfort to live in this country. Singapore is a country that the people who live in it, much like use mrt, car, taxi, buses, and walk as a transportation. But the majority of student, especially international student. They are using mrt, buses, and walk as a transportation. It’s a compulsory to us to walk even it’s sunny or rainy. The problem is, when it’s rainy, and we have to walk. As we know, when the rainy season come to Singapore, the heavy rainy come, and it’s like a waste to use umbrella. Why? Because it’s rain plus windy. So your clothes will wet as soon as we walk by. Also, when rainy, what the big problem like the wet clothes is, when our shoes go slippery when it’s rainy.

When it’s rainy, and when we walk by the street, at some time our shoes become slippery. Why? There are so many reason why it become slippery. When the surface is wet and flat, or our footwear have no more grip on it.

So there are ways to make shoes less slippery :

1. Scuff the soles on abrasive surfaces

To do this, try walking around on a rough surface like, for instance:

· Concrete (the rougher, the better)

· Gravel

· Rocks, boulders, etc.

· Textured metal grates, walkways, etc.

2. Using grip adding products

3. Use shoes some type of shoes that rubber based

1. Tevas