I had not planned on leaving the house today. But this morning I decided to go to the mall just to look around. Not because I wanted anything there. I just wanted to go there for the single desire to go barefoot in a shopping mall. It felt really strange. I felt exposed, vulnerable and strangely enough, a little excited. Understand that I'm very part time with the barefooting thing and sort of like it that way. It was feelings like I had today that I don't want to lose by doing it all the time. Anyone else go somewhere just to go barefoot in public? On a side note, I took a day off last week before the holiday and today to have an extra long weekend. Took off my shoes and socks as soon as I got home Wednesday night. As of a few minutes ago I've been totally barefoot for five days straight. Not quite a record for me, but it's the longest I've been barefoot for a very long time.
I do it a lot. I often take a book into town, and have lunch in town and chill and sun myself for a bit, when I could so easily do all that at home and in the back garden, because it means I get to walk into town barefoot and back. What surprises me is that basically it's making me motivated to get some exercise when I never used to. Perhaps if I'd always gone barefoot at school, particularly for P.E. and games lessons I would have been far more motivated to do more exercise, work harder in those lessons and end up being very fit.
I took the subway into the city last night just so I could stroll around the area barefoot. The weather finally broke on Saturday, so I decided to make up for lost time and spent over three hours last night walking along the streets, sidewalks and the subway. I found that taking a few minutes to walk around the subway barefoot gave me the equivalent of a base tan on my soles and made it a lot easier for them to get darker as the evening progressed. I came into the city on Sunday to meet up with a couple of friends of mine. We went to various shops, bars and did plenty of overall browsing. Unfortunately, I had to wear sneakers because of the various establishments that we were going into. Once we parted ways, I decided to lose my sneakers and once again make up for lost time and stroll around the city barefoot. Over the two nights I saw a total of two other people walking barefoot. Hopefully as summer progresses there will be more sitings.
Yeah Mike I go barefoot all the time when not at work. After my shift ends, off come the boots and I'm barefoot until I go back to work the next day. I love going any place I can, barefoot. I get stares from people, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm so tall (6'8) or that I'm barefoot ro both!!! I don't care either way! At lunch I take off my boots and socks. The guys I work with are always busting me anout being barefoot so much, but I tell them they should try it and enjoy it! I have a pair of sole moccasins that I bought in college. They have not soles, so I can wear them to places where they say: "No shoes, No service". Unless someone is really staring at my feet they have no idea my soles are bare. Tye allow my to be mbarefoot, and to keep my soles tough for all types of surfaces. Enjoy being barefoot. As long as I've been doing it I still get excited about going places barefoot.
I do all the time. There are a couple wal marts that i have NEVER wore shoes into... I like to drive to relieve stress and calm down to my music. And whenever I drive, I make sure to stop and shop barefoot, because it's easier for me to shop barefoot when you know that no one knows you so it's less likely that they will care or talk to you.
in my barefoot outings i've grown accustomed to a mayor annoyance - thorns. most of my favorite places to hike barefoot are thick bushes where it is not uncommon to step on thick bramble branches and other thorny plants , and there are places that are literally immense meadows of thorns . but my major concern are not thorns, scorching asphalt floors or other passive menaces. what i really hate are snakes, vipers in particular. those little crawling crocks o'shit are the single concern that ruins myoutings since there are places where grass is simply too thick and tall to see a god damned thing. there is someone else here with the same prob? if only there was something that repels snakes. one would think, carry a stick or a gun but as you may easily figure out the problem is not the snake you see but the one you're not aware of. what to do ? flogging the grass around and before me all the time ? or else i should go to sardinia where there are no poisonous snakes at all...
Just pop over to the UK, there are no poisonous snakes here apart from the Adder, the bite of which is not lethal, and so rare i don't know anyone who has seen one. I often go out just to be barefoot, it's a good excercise motivator!
It's taken me a couple of years to get over NOT feeling not normal by being barefoot in public. I routinely go places just to be barefoot in public places...and the more I try, I find I can add more places to my "list" where nobody bothers me. I'm up to around a dozen or so. It's def a learning curve.
well brother, since Italy looks weirder each new day and everybody is so desperate about future and freedom here i might consider picking my bags and leaving the stinky place forever. crawling ones won't be the sole kind of poisonous snakes I'll leave behind my shoulders. no seriously. it has grown way too creepy here.
The UK also has it's weird moments. Recently, a man dropped a ten pound note in the street, and a policeman saw him and reported him for littering, and he was fined 75 pounds, about 100 dollars. You can be fined 200 pounds for putting your dusbin out on the wrong day, whilst the fine for shoplifting is only 80 pounds. However, there is no problem at all about going barefoot! So all's well, then!
ok listen to this. in some major cities you can't sit down and eat a sandwich. on some beaches you get fines for building sand castles. some cities forbid going bare-chested and i suspect that they did not forbid bare feet too just because there is no one doing that. now there is a proposal to apply to cycle riders the same penalties applied to car drivers, including fines and the repeal of driving license, provided that the offender has one. so if i am drunk and i have a choice to take the car or the cycle it is all the same, if they get me the consequences don't change. in some cities you can't get in with your car. you don't know, don't notice the videocam and the sign, trespass the border and get heavily fined. time ago came out that some cities used speed revealers that were purposely modified to record higher speeds than real in order to issue more fines. to pay the taxes you have to fill a bunch of modules that are so complicated that most people pays an accountant for having him to do that. we pay in advance the taxes for the year to come (yes) . we are forced to pay 120 € per year for the privilege of owning a TV set. we have taxes over gasoline that make up most of the price. and a neverending list of other vexations, scams and swindles that our own public powers perpetrates behind the backs of us citizens. all this with the higlest levels of public corruption of the western word. then there is berlusconi and his court of miracles. i might consider as well migrating to egypt.
If you pay your taxes in advance, why not just declare yourself unemployed before the start of the financial year and pay fuck all, then 'resume employment' when the coast is clear?
You win, Jagerhans, Italy wins the weirdness prize, with honours! I've only been there once, in 2005 with the tall ships youth trust (tsyt.org), and it seemed a really nice place, but of course that's not the same as living there...
