My heel!

I go to work to the European Commission first time this morning - actually only to the information meeting - and right in front of the building, the heel of my shoe decided to go its own way...it just simply came off. So I picked it up, went to the reception and kindly asked if they have glue, I cannot be late for my first day's meeting! They told me go to to the closest shoe repair. Since that was not a viable solution, I was already running late, I just asked for the scotch tape. And I fixed my shoe for about half an hour when the heel came off again. I have to express my gratitude towards my colleagues for pretending that they have not noticed my white scotch tape at the bottom of my trousers all day! Anyway, I survived and repeated several times the scotch taping manoeuver today. The morals: Scotch tape doesn't fix shoes. Shoe repair people do! :-)