was i rude?

i went out earlier tonight and i was, of course, bareefoot. my mom and i went to rent movies for my brothers birthday. we went into blockbuster and my mom stated that she didnt think that i could be in there bf. i told her it was fine and that most people dont even notice. so we went in. she didnt mention anything when we went into walgreens for hot choclate. but when we went into the Golden Dragon for noodles. she finally said that i was being rude, that i was going to cause them to loose their business liscense and that i should stay in the car. i went into the golden dragon anyway and i didnt wear those shoes! i dont think that being barefoot is rude and its silly to think it offends peope.

 

i think being barefoot in stores is rude...

besides, if you insist on going barefoot most of the time, carry around thong sandles or somethign to put on when going inside--seriously, lots of people are just put off by bare feet cause, well, they aren't the cleanest of things, especially if youve been walking around barefoot all day [mind you shoes arent clean, but yeah]

it is rude just like putting your feet on a coffee table at someone you don't knwo that well's house

 

well.. theres a difference between a store floor and a coffee table.. one gets eaten off of and such...


i dont think its rude. .. but if it is, than i apologize to every store i've done it in.. except walmart.

 

i think that carrying around thong sandles is a good idea but i dont think that i was wrong because the only difference between shoes and barefeet is you can take your shoes off.

 

well there is also a difference between a video store and a resturant [that is what i am assuming the Golden Dragon is]...there are such a thing as health codes, but still a store is a store is a store

call me old fashioned, but i like my noodles sans feet [and yes i know he feet are no where near the noodles, but its the principle of the thing]

besides, don't you think it is just curdeous to wear footwear?

 

why do you feel the need to not wear shoes?

 

i dont think being barefoot is rude...but i can understand how it can be disrespect to some people.


maybe, just for your mom, you could of sliped on a cheap pair of sandles real fast, and then when you sat down at the table, you could slip your sandles off...not like she is going to stick her head under the table to make sure your shoes are on. as long as she thinks you have sandles on

 

restaraunts, rude

everywhere else, probably not

if you have a reasonable expectation people may be eating wear shoes of some sort because feet freak out some people, a lot of people in fact

we're puritans, we're fucked up, on some animal level it makes sense, but objectivly it is rubbish....

 

THE CASE FOR SHOES:
A short argumentative essay by one Trevor "Burby" Sliwkanich

"Why wear shoes" some people have asked. Our ancestors (evolutionally speaking) didn't, so whay should we? With the advent of cars and other forms of travel, as well as smooth sidewalks, have shoes become outdated. The answer my freind is no.

Shoes, wheather expensive brand name sneaker or a simple moccasin/thong, have high value. They are highly practical in everyday life. Imagine if you will you are sitting in a resturant, eating some delicious soup (or maybe you are wlaking drinking a cup of coffee), and all of a suddon, you spill. You naow have 2nd degree burns on your feet and probobly own the hospital some cash for fixing you up. Had you been wearing shoes, all you would have had to do would be to wash them off or such, a painless and inexpensive task considering the alternative (Ho$pital Vi$it).

Not only that, for us unlucky folk who have hairy feet (I am one of these such people) or us with sweaty/smelly feet (again, I am representative of these people) shoes act as a curdeous barrir to our neighbours. Imagine for a second that you are at a job interview (shoe-less), but it is a little too hot for you, and you start to sweat--your prospective boss then turns up his nose and promptly shuffles you our of his/her office and never returns your calls. Again, shoes are highly useful in day to day goings on.

Thus, i have definitly proved that shoes are the be all end all of todays society and an invention i credit for all the major advances in science, art, and society.


nuf said, end of argument

 

mmm.. hairy sweaty/smelly feet. you have so many more hot points now... lol



... ps your feet sweat/smell more if you wear shoes.

 

but you have it contained in your shoe

why not wear shoes?

 

cause my feet get blisters easily when i wear shoes more often.. and i've had to use crutches twice because my feet were covered in blood blisters.

when i'm bare foot, i build callusses (i cant spell) and so they dont blister any.

 

k... you are weird
what about for normal people?

 

i usually just feel more comfertable with no shoes on. in the winter i have to...cause of the weather.

 

hmm i don't there's a good argument for wearing sandals vs. bare feet. for covered shoes i can see the safety issues and whatever, but really, those things are going to be waaaay dirter than your feet that (hopefully) get washed a lot more often. sandals though, are really only covering the bottoms of your feet. the only real argument is that it offends ppl to not wear shoes. and that makes those ppl weird, in my opinion. showing your feet isn't the same as showing other parts of your body that are normally covered, so i don't see the big deal (whereas if somebody walks in topless i can... since most of the time ppl's chests are covered.)

 

Sunshine'sbutterfly, you would love New Zealand. Everyone goes barefoot there, to everywhere, including restaurants, as long as they aren't upper-class ones. At the supermarkets, a large number of shoppers go barefoot, and almost all the kids are too, excepting in the wintertime. At the schools, students wear shoes to class, then take them off once they get into the class. It was kind of bizarre at first, but you get used to it.

 

Duysadgsdiwdh

 

dude trevor. haah youre soooo conservative

 

i know--i am a conservative induvidual, and proud of it

 

heeehee... sorry, I love big spelling mistakes like that, they amuse the hell out of me (from that article thinger that was quoted)



Anywho, feet smell the worst if they've been in nylons or synthetic-material socks all day, not because of shoes. It's the synthetic stuff that prevents feet from breathing that's really bad, and nylons are the worst culprits for smelly feet