Introducing the ADSCCU

Corbett | March 3, 2007 8:28 PM

Part of my work has to do with keeping up with the flaming pace of the Beijing real estate market. This requires me to spend a lot of time looking at homes around Beijing and the surrounding suburbs. As Beijing is incredibly dusty, no one is allowed with shoes on when looking at a house. But a lot of local people don't like taking their shoes off (inconvenient, smelly, embarrassing, etc), so you are usually offered a pair of cheap disposable blue plastic shoe covers at the door, which look like shower caps. A shoe condom of sorts, which keeps you from tracking mud through a nice model home. Thing is, it's harder to put on the shoe condoms than take your shoes off, so you're usually hopping around on one foot, trying to keep your shoulder bag from slipping off, while bringing up a foot to slip the cover over, which for foreigners are always too small, so you end up breaking them, or only half covering your foot, or losing your balance, or dropping your bag, or everything at once. You get the picture.

Today Sean and I encountered a nifty solution to this hassle, and I think probably only available here. The ADSCCU (automatic disposable shoe cover coverering unit).

Category: Mr. Asia

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