My cross trainers have developed a rather annoying squeaky sound. This didn’t just happen, it began about a week after I bought them and over the last few months it has gradually gotten worse. For quite sometime I wasn’t sure if it was a problem with the shoe or if it was just a mouse gestating inside the so called ‘air cushion’.
I refused to believe it was a problem with the shoe. It had cost an much as 2 months worth of fuel, and the shiny “famous” brand name on the side told me it had to be a quality product. But I was wrong, it was the shoe, and It has become annoying.
It was annoying when it announced my presence to the whole world, it was annoying when I couldn’t sneak up on my workmates without giving them a fair warning and it was annoying that a product meant to last for a significant amount of time started giving trouble after just 2 months.
Unfortunately I’m old enough to remember when quality mattered. When certain brands could be trusted to produce high quality products, regardless of the cost. If you were willing to spend the money, you were assured of the build quality. It was a price to pay for peace of mind. I wonder how much of that is true these days. Having a higher price seem to be purely driven by the need to be exclusive, “make it cheap and make as much money as possible” seem to be the norm.
I wonder if a day will come where Ferraris are mass produced in a factory in East Asia and still sold for a quarter of a million dollars.
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