50 Handy Tricks

Step 11 Tennis Ball on Stick Rubs out Scuff Marks

Just a regular tennis ball with a hole in it so it can be stuck on the end of a broom handle.
The maintenance people on the airport walk around rubbing the black scuff marks from shoes off the floor. Works great. Photographed in Ohare airport Chicago (I think) in 2002.

Comments

[polymeme]

Having worked for several years in floor maintenance at a large discount store which shall remain nameless but has a large emoticon as a mascot - I can tell you that yes, the toe of your shoe works just as well, but it's actually pretty physically demanding and can wear your leg out over the course of an 8 hour shift if the scuffs are especially heavy (the cart monkeys are the worst about scuffs, making huge skid turns with a train of 20 shopping carts with hard rubber wheels.) The tennis ball uses the same muscles you use all night every night to dustmop and whatnot.

[squirrelMLM]

Lemme take a stab at it. Is it per chance happy foods? :P

[Whales]

I used to see Janitors do this all the time at school, but nobody is juvenile enough to do it enough to create a problem about it.

[Kathybear]

The lady could just use the toe of her shoe - it works just as well to "erase" scuff marks - even if it isn't the shoe that made them. Just need a rubber sole - like the ones that usually make scuff marks. The toe doesn't scuff, but takes the scuff marks off! Honest!

[MaggithaMay]

Yeah, we had to do exactly that to remove the marks in my elementary school gym class. 30 six year-olds can get the job done pretty quickly!