Originally Posted by saddlesores

Some day, you might fly off for a week to Myanmar, with a fresh pair of cycling shoes you bought in China, with glue that doesn't pass the sticky test, and after less'n a week, the soles fall off, in which case you gotta find an itinerant cobbler to, umm, cobble your shoes together, assuming he has a portable sewing machine capable of stitching through soles. Street cobblers in China would have full-size industrial sewing machines, but this guy in the photo outside a temple managed it AWL right.