All in the name of being cool...

Leroy from Port Antonio always wanted to look cool.
His friend told
him that he needed a good designer
pair of sneakers
to go with his sweat-suit.

Leroy saved up
all his pay slips and all the money
he got back from
returning his empty bottles of Red
Stripe and
finally managed to get himself a pair of
brilliant white
sneakers to go with his sweat-suit.

Proudly, he
strutted down the street calling out to
all the passers
by "See meh new sneakers dem?
Cool, eh?"

One fine
upstanding gentleman pointed out that
they were indeed
a fine pair of sneakers but was
young Leroy aware
that he had a lace undone?

Leroy scornfully
retorted that it was part of being
cool to have a
trailing lace and that on the bottom
of the sneakers
there were instructions for the
wearer to only
have one lace tied.

When asked for
proof of this instruction, Leroy
took off his
sneakers and held it upside down for
the disbeliever
to read.
"There y'are! It
clearly says ...

"TAIWAN."