Heroes for Hire
Heroes for Hire
I recently bought a pair of Ecco Receptors. They’re urban walking shoes with a pretty cool design, hidden laces, and a front zipper. They have a hard heel stabilizer to help your foot strike the ground better, and should ultimately increase your walking endurance and comfort. Well, I bought mine last week, and immediately went out walking after work with a good friend of mine. He happens to be in the army, and an accomplished martial artist.
While walking, I realized that I felt like I should now be able to walk at super human speeds, that I was itching for a bit of a scrap, and that my walking companion was more than capable of getting my back. These facts combined with my normal need to help people led me to this beta-business idea. My friend and I would walk around that night looking for people to help, or better yet, save from evil-doers. If we found somebody, we could either help them for free, or decide to charge a huge fee for our heroic services. We became urban traveling swordsmen (without swords). We might name the company Heroes for Hire (stolen from the old Power Man and Iron Fist comics – Jonathan Clarke will understand..)
Well we walked, and walked, and walked, until my ill-fitting, un-broken-in, stiff Eccos began to wear the flesh raw on my heels, and my stomach growled with hunger. We walked from uptown to downtown, from east to west, with our ever-vigilant eyes trained on pedestrians and drivers alike – searching for someone to save. After 2 hours or so, when hunger began to grow unignorable, and I needed to change back into my old, worn in Nikes, and we found absolutely NOBODY to save, we looked for a place to rest our traveling swordsmen type asses.
Eventually we found this great little Japanese noodle shop called Ony on 6th Ave and Washington I think. Witold will love this place. It was an appropriate meal for traveling swordmen. We ate ourselfves silly, and then called it a night. So much for Heroes for Hire. Maybe next time.
