Terrible things were happening all around us. Right next to me a huge reptile was gnawing on a woman's neck, the carpet was a blood soaked sponge -- impossible to walk on it, no footing at all.
"Order some golf shoes", I whispered. "Otherwise, we'll never get out of here alive".
--- Hunter S. Thompson, describing a Las Vegas bar scene to his Samoan attorney in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas