I got a Barefoot (flipflops) comment yesterday

It was new years day about 8am and my wife and I went to breakfast at a local resturant, It was cold and windy out but I figured we were just going from the house to the car to the resturant so I put on my flipflops. While waiting in line to get into the resturant a older lady in her early 50's said to me "Oh you must be so cold with barefeet like that" She said it in a nice tone and seemed like she just wanted to make conversation. I automatically thought I forgot my flipflops in the car since I took them off to drive so I looked down and realized to her barefoot meant flipflops I was wearing. I just said something like no im ok. She laughed and said "Oh your young, when your old like me your always cold" We then took our seats.
I don't know if its really barefoot related but Last tuesday my wife and I went to the Indianapolis auto show and I wore gymshoes since it was really cold out and we parked a few blocks away. I wanted to wear my flipflops but at the last minute changed my mind. While at the show for three hours Noticed several people in flipflops two were women in thier 20's wearing winter like coats, One was a guy in his early 40's wearing a sweatshirt, and then there was a teenager in flops. I then felt bad I didn't tough it out and wear mine. In winter in indiana wearing flipflops is like barefooting to me and I think the people I seen must really not like shoes that much to be wearing flipflops in winter, maybe there are more barefooters in indiana than I think.
Its sunny out today for the first time in days so I might try a quick barefoot walk and see if its nicer out with the sun warming up the ground.

 

my grandmother always says something about me going barefoot or wearing flipflops. then i had a cold and she tried to tell me it was because i was always running around without shoes on. i tried to explain to her that i don't spend very much time outside barefoot, just a few minutes daily. then i told her a cold is a virus. she is so hard-headed. she changed the subject so not to be proven wrong.

 

Thanks for sharing that nice story!

I was your neighbor at one time, lived in the Cleveland/Akron Ohio area before moving to Southern Arizona. With the popularity of flip flops came some folks like me who would continue to wear them during the colder months. Once the temps got down to the low 40's I would set them aside until spring. However there would always be a few diehards, especially a few twenty-something females who would be seen trekking through the snow in flip flops! I too would hate it when I would decide not to wear them and yet ended up seeing someone esle wearing theirs. Made me hate the shoes I was wearing at the moment even more!!

 

My mother actually warns me very often whenever she sees me when its really cold out to either A. Put on a warmer coat B. Put on a warmer hat, or if its 60 degrees out and sunny I wear shorts and flipflops or go barefoot and she warns me to A. Put on pants, its too cold for shorts B. Put on shoes. All so I don't get sick.
I have argued the point to her many times about the virus cold thing and she doesn't get it either.
I am 26 years old and my mother still hounds me about it, yet I still don't get sick that often and when I do I relate alot of it to stress lowering my immune system. My job in the wintertime, in a day varies from 80 degrees inside to as low as (at least this winter) 12 degrees outside. I repeat this cycle 5 times a day and have yet to get sick from it yet. I don't even think it lowers your immune system or anything like that.

 

It has been a really mild winter here and I am loving it, I have worn my flipflops quite a bit this winter. I will wear them if its above 50 out if theres no wind, or if its 40-45 above and I will just be going into somewhere like a movie theatre, or library or something like that. The lowest barefoot temp for me is about 55 if its sunny and not to wet out. I grew up in Chicago and moved to west central indiana a year ago, one perk is its actually on average about 7 degrees warmer here which actually makes a barefooting difference. I would really like to live in a nice warm climate since I can much better handle the extreme heat than the extreme cold.

 

woo! indiana! hey im a fellow hoosier ^_^
i almost went for a barefoot walk today, but instead went with my sis to valpo. unfortunately i go through sandles like tissue paper, so i had none to wear ~_~
props to you for braving the indiana winter! it was like 34 degrees up here today

 

What delights me, even though I'm not wild about this climate change, being a snow lover, and all, is that now it's flops and shorts in and out of public, all the time. I've done shorts year round, or near year round most of my life. But the delicious feeling of flops and shorts all thru a Maine winter is amazing to me.

The few people who say anything, and I mean, few, I have to remind them that it's the weather that's different, not me. There's a lot of talk about the freakish warm year, but I think most people don't notice anything but the calendar. If it says January, you're supposed to bundle up period. Me, the thermometer is what I dress for.

 

I love Indiana and I am proud to be a Hoosier now, the best barefooting I have done has been in Indiana. This last summer I was in Bedford In, and was out barefooting around the town, Well Bedford is the limestone capital of the country so back in the early 1900's when they put down sidewalks they used limestone, that was a real treat to walk on. The state parks are great places also.

 

I have noticed that around here a bit, last november we had a day that was 65 and sunny and I seen people that were dressed as if they were ready to go to the north pole. Another thing I never understood is people driving in winter coats on the interstate in the winter, when I go on anything of a car trip longer than 10-15 minutes I will always take off my coat since I can't stand a bulky coat, I will usually be barefoot as well. The way I figure it if I am going from a heated house to a heated car to a heated store and back I usually won't even put on a coat, though I will make sure I have a coat and shoes as backup in case there is car trouble or an unexpected detour.

 

yea its a great place to be barefoot-mostly grass and sand and not a lot of rocky terrain-flat as a pancake! i just wish it would dry up a bit, it feels like its been raining since christmas!
i like going to the beach barefoot-even though its been done :/ i like walking up and down the rough side walks and climbing the rocks around the lighthouse-oh and the dunes are fantastic to barefoot! my friends and i went to the dunes last summer and climed the highest dune-i was the only barefoot one tho those tenderfoots...

 

I knew two old sisters [over 95, both] which lived into a decaying old peasants house with 5 meters tall ceiling, no current water, no heathing but a coal burner , no electric power, no wc , nothing but oil lamps and buckets, they were also occasionally barefoot or at best wore light slippers with no socks in winter [i mean real winter, not this disaster of global warming we re living right now... 19 celsius in january... can you DIG!], cooked on a fire in their backyard and saved the leftovers over the window. and they did just fine. it want even a poverty issue, their relatives lived the next door to them , they had decent incomes but just plain didnt want to give up the ancient habit. they didnt look cold or suffering nor out of their mind.
we can stand more than we think. we need way less than we consume.
and sorry for the broken english and keyboard [im going to do some testing on this fucking java 3d desktop/ nice but broken]