Watch: This grandma's super cool trick to add more grip to slippers is winning the internet
Fancy yourself quite the 'jugaadu?' That's probably because you're Indian and think you've won the competition of the great jugaad already. But let me have you know this adorable grandmother's cool DIY trick to add more grooves and hence more grip to slippery slippers is winning the internet and how. The thing that won everyone's hearts was this enterprising woman's conviction. "Being poor won't beat me," she says at one point, something that resonated with all who came across the video.
How did this grandma manage to make her slippery slippers more sturdy?
The original video is credited to someone named Luisiana Juarez which one can assume is the lady in the video perhaps or the person who recorded it. In the now-viral clip, a sweet elderly woman is standing next to a gas stove, a slipper in one hand and a metal wire in the other. By now the viewer more or less has an idea of what's going to happen next. The sweet ol' lady proceeds to heat the metal wire directly on the fire from the open gas stove. Next, she uses the now piping hot wire to carve deep cuts on the sole of the slipper so these new grooves add more grip to otherwise slippery slippers.
As desis who admire any and all kinds of jugaad, this is a master move and one worth admiring. For those wondering why she couldn't simply buy another pair, maybe you should consider the fact that not everyone has that kind of privilege, and those who do might simply want to try this neat DIY hack for some fun. Either way, the clip is a sweet reminder that jugaad is a universally celebrated concept and we humans are all too keen to try it no matter where we are in the world.
How did the internet react?
The video was shared by the popular page Pubity on Instagram where it raked in a whopping 9.3 million views, 92k likes and comments to match. Here are some of the best ones:
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