Hey, I'm sure you guys will be able to help me out with these questions. I just recently started going barefoot the majority of the time. I began doing this when school got out about a month or so ago. One, I'm just wondering, after a while of walking barefoot, do your feet eventually just develop thick soles and callouses to the point that you can walk down a dirt or gravel road or over rocky land or whatever without feeling the pain of stepping on rocks and having to look down to make sure you aren't stepping on thistle plants or any of the other sharp things. Also, I'm just curious, what restrictions are there for going barefoot in public places. I live in Michigan, so if any of you guys are from here, and go barefoot, and you may know some of the laws, I'd really appreciate it if you could share them. Thanks ahead of time, Seth
You will develop callouses after a while, and those will protect your feet from being injured by such things. You will still have sensation in your feet, though, so you will still be able to feel the dirt, gravel, or rocky land. Depending on how sensitive your soles are, the gravel may still hurt (as it does me), or it might not even hurt if your callouses get really tough. Walking on asphalt and concrete, as I do a lot, seems to attenuate the development of callouses, at least in my experience. As far as being a patron of public places, there are no legal restrictions. However, shop owners do have the right to refuse service to anyone, and they may refuse service to you for being barefoot. That seems to happen more often in some places than in others, and it depends a lot on the management of the place. As far as being an employee, OSHA and health department rules may apply. Your employer may not be allowed to let you go barefoot to comply with these job safety laws. Even if your employer isn't prohibited from letting you go barefoot, you may be required to wear shoes by employer policy. In short, the permissibility of going barefoot in public depends largely on the attitude of who's in charge.
Ok. Thanks a ton. You cleared up everything for me . I don't even have a job, so I'm not worried so much about the employee, but it's good to know I can legally go barefoot in public places. It's more then likely that most of the local businesses will get ticked off if someone goes in barefoot, seeing as I live in a small town where diversity and difference is non-existent. I guess I won't know till I try though. Till then, thanks a ton. Seth
bige Man thats just crazy.. how can anyone object if you dont want to wear shoes... insanity [should we wear gloves as well?] I mean i wear shoes[at home i dont] but it never worried me if others did not in public. [i only started wearing them in public school] Im in a country town and a really good mate of mine never wears shoes... [he's my age] I see sly sideways looks from 'the highborn' at his attire. [wouldnt they get a shock if they knew he had in IQ of over 170] just goes to show you, einstein was right "the only infinite things are the universe and human stupidity, and im not to sure about the universe" occam
IQ of 170. That's impressive. Yeah. There's really no reason behind the objection. Maybe some managers try and use sanitation or something as an excuse, but really, how much dirtier are your feet going to get then your shoes, considering you're walking in the same environment. I'm guessing that managers just object cause they don't like the fact you're doing something different then others. I don't know if that's the wrong guess. There may just be no method behind the madness.
Not doubt. I believe you. I'm just saying that's unbelievably smart. Yeah. He certainly would have qualified for MENSA. I envy him . I think my IQ's like 145 or something.
sethm dave is a cool guy, you'd like him. laid back, surfed of the coast at cassablanca... woot and damn sharp. yeh mines about 145 , was 160 something,, but i goes down half a point per bottle of burbon. lol occam
I think it's basically their way of rebelling against the hippie era of the 60s. Shop owners tend to be more conservative, and I hear that back then, conservatives really hated hippies. That seems to be when "no shoes, no shirt, no service" started. It's sad, though, since it is reflective of a part of society that doesn't really value freedom of expression in all its forms. This is more of a US attitude, though. It doesn't seem to happen in other parts of the world, like many posters here have noted.
You will only get callouses in the beginning; after that you just get a thick leathery sole. This takes a while, though; it took me about 2 weeks to be able to go 1.5 miles on pavement. As far as public places, I haven't chanced it yet. I probably will someday, but for now I just put on sandals of some sort to go to stores. There are no laws, though, requiring shoes in an establishment, but a business can have its own dress code and they can legally tell you to leave. It becomes fraud, though, when they claim that it's by order of the Health Bureaucracy... I mean Department. EDIT: And just for braggery and to put down some stereotypes, I have a 4.0 GPA with an IQ of about 135 or so.
essence whats GPA? is that grade point average? [im not american] by the way was not bragging... an IQ genius can be an idiot in real terms. IQ means nothing if you have no knowledge to work with or desire to use it. For example einstein claimed he was crap at math. he had to teach himself so he could put into words that science understood, ideas he had in his head. He had maybe the greatest iq to imagination facility a human has ever had.. and 7 sets of suits each identical in his room , one for every day of the week. Bigge .. no, australia is same.. you walk down george street in sydney without shoes. people will actually 'step asside for the crazy' occam
Yeah, GPA = grade point average. A = 4 points B = 3 points C = 2 points D = 1 point F = 0 points They average them out to find your GPA. BAM!
i saw a news special here on the local montana station and they talked about a barefooter. he said he had letters from the state health departments of all fifty states saying that there is no hazard to not wearing shoes, so people who have a NSNSNS sign saying "by order of the health department" are incorrect... try that! write to the state health department and ask if there are any regulations concerning not wearing shoes in public places.
essence In aus we have this averaging thing too. [in education] But i never could grasp it... does not averaging make you the same as everyone else.. is that the point? [Is not it understood that we are all equal irrespective of mental facillity.? are these people idiots..it seems so.] No-one can be smarter than anyone else cause it hurts their feelings and creates a [perceived] elite minority...? Jesus wept. Maybe averaging is justified from that pov.. the people that promote it are obviously a dumb a rocks. [sniker] occam
I don't think it necessarily compares you to any type of average, it's just an average of your grades to give yourself and your employers an idea of what the grades were you got in school... They can say, "Looks like this kid had some problems in math, but he did have a good AVERAGE grade."
I can understand how a store owner may demand everyone wears shoes just in case a sharp object is on the floor they dont know about (broken glass or w/e) and might cut somebodies foot open... and the barefooter may be able to sue for $100,000s if its in the USA. Wow 170+. Well the Guinness Book of records worlds highest IQ is 167+ (Marilyn vos Savant). So he should really talk to guiness... or you should stop making up numbers. just goes to show you, einstein was right "the only infinite things are the universe and human stupidity, and im not to sure about the universe"
I've always thought that going barefoot was the smart choice! The UK barefooters are a bit heavy up top, too. One is a multi-lingual doctor of empirical finance, another a doctor of medicine, another a retired physics professor, and the inevitable IT specialist. And they are just the ones i know about!
barefooter and oshinn are enemies of the darleks... EXTERMINATE... you should hear me do 'the voice' EXTERMINATE. lol.. apparently it scares people.. litttle old lady once came to door selling jesus i was in bad mood and 1/2 way thought 1st cup of java.. JESUS CHRIST IS AN ENEMY OF THE DARLEKS.. EXTERMINATE. she collapsed.. the poor old duck. the cops actually questioned me ... i kid u not.. i had to do the voice to be let off. They did not believe she went down from a voice.. i gave it to them.. one cop even said..'wow' A friend of mine elbowed me in an elevator once [full of suits] 'do the darlek with bush... GEORGE BUSH IS AN ENEMY OF THE darleks..EXTERMINATE. what a riot that was people think this is rubbish,, but if you MAKE A BIG NOISE in an elevator or a supermarket.. people literally fall to the floor in shock. I did BOOM HEADSHOT/Leeroy jenkins[wow sippet] @ from counterstrike source[CSS]in a spar... they called the police. occam
