For some reason I recalled this cautionary tale from last summer in ibiza and thought I'd share .
In ibiza (and I'm sure other worldwide beach-based clubbing resorts) it seems cool to be a beach bum, and drag your tanned hide into a club later ... just to show what a cool party animal you are and prove that you can cope with a 24-hour session. The integral beach bum fasion wear is board shorts, shades, v dirty t-shirt and the mandatory flip-flops.
Now we Brits have never been too big on flip-flops .. primarily because the weather's always crap, so you seldom get the opportunity to wear them in - plus they end up chaffing you and giving you blisters, so you end up hobbling around in pain !
So there I was in Space last summer, Digweed is on the Space Terrace for his 2nd set of the night, its 5.00 a.m. and I'm flagging a bit. So I pull up a stool at the bar, get in a jack'n'coke, taking in the sounds/vibe and chatting to the lovely senorita next to me.
Despite the glass collectors regular clearance of emptys and breakages there's a build up of glass on the floor. An unsuspecting flip-flop wearer walks past and then his face contorts in absolute pain - at first I though Diggers must have dropped a mis-labelled copy of Cowpander by mistake ... but no .. the flip-flop wearer looks down at his foot which is now gushing blood Tarantino-style from a wound with a v large piece of glass sticking out.
I signal the bar staff and tell them to get towels (and lots of them) pronto - they then send the poor clubber off to 1st aid and no doubt A & E (or ER as you say in the States).
I'm sure there is a key learning point for all of us in there ahead of the WMC and Ibiza later this summer. So what are your thoughts on flip-flops in clubs per se ... and have you got any similar cautionary tales ??