About a year ago, the school I was then attending held a Safe Sex Education Day when, among other things, free condoms were handed out to students. Mine was a rather attractive shade of orange, but I was at a loss what to do with it, since I found it unlikely that I'd get laid before its expiration date in 2011. So, until recently, it just sat at the bottom of my backpack, gathering (metaphorical) dust.

But it's been raining a lot lately, and my shoes and socks are always getting soaked. The shoes aren't too bad, but in my opinion there's not a lot about a rainy day that's more unpleasant than having to walk around with wet cotton clinging to your feet. I figured a condom might make a pretty good waterproof sock (assuming I could get it over my foot). If it could withstand an ejaculation, it could withstand even the most torrential downpour.

I opened the condom package, unrolled the condom, washed off the sticky lube stuff, and eased it over my foot. To my delight, it not only fit well but was pretty comfortable, once I shook off the feeling that I was walking around in a deflated balloon.

I tested its efficacy as a waterproof sock by holding the be-condomed foot under the bathroom faucet and running water over it. As predicted, it worked extremely well.

I intended to wear the condom all day, with a normal sock on the other foot for comparison. Unfortunately, after about an hour I flexed my foot a little too strenuously and it snapped.