Gives me the creeps seeing kids riding in flipflops. They do it around here in the summer.
Many years ago I was at an Army hospital when an ambulance brought two teenagers in after a motorcycle accident. The girl had been riding in shorts, a tank top, flipflops, and the mandatory helmet.
Not a mark on her head, but very bad road burn over a lot of her body, right through the tank top and shorts, too, complete with embedded gravel. All that was left of her flipflops was the section on the left foot which goes between the toes.
She screamed for 2 hours while they cleaned her burns.
Its cool to ride wearing cool clothes but its not so cool if some cage knocks you down and you slide 40 feet on your face.
Living the Gypsy Life