Jamie, that's pretty cool... But you might consider some sort of sandal for public places you're not allowed to go barefoot... It's a pretty common rule. I'm thinking specifically, while I was in florda (I was like 13 and this was all irellivant to me) I was in key west, and there's a sandal company there, i think it's called kino. It's what all the locals wear all day long, I recall them as breaking in to be pretty comfy, and conveniant. You might consider trying to find locally, or make something of that general nature. Then you could be almost barefoot, and not have to deal with the disgusting smelly rubbery plastic shit that most people call sandals. Or, there's always burkenstocks.
Jamie, you know I was just fucking around with this debate, right? I am not a hippie, I enjoy shoes except on carpet, and I wouldnt tell anyone to leave my store if they were barefoot or shirtless. (unless it really did pose a risk.)
Thanks dude, I am glad to hear that. I just get so mad when people (I encounter from time to time) get so anal about bare feet. It's like Geez... people are out there raping kids and murdering each other and OMG... I'm not wearing shoes!! I actually think it looks cool and (Believe me on this one) if you tried it for at least 2 weeks, you would think it was so comfortable not to wear shoes that you would be hooked. Do you know in Australia and New Zealand half the people go around barefoot (to work, school, malls, etc) I hear that they don't stare at you or anything for going barefoot.... It's just like (he likes to wear shoes, she doesn't like shoes)... nothing more than that. Why can't America (the land of the free) be more like that?
America (more specifically USA is the country we live in. America is a combination of two separate continents that stretch almost from pole to pole), anyways, USAians are idealistic. I like to fuck with those people. Like you have completely opened yourself up to be shredded to pieces by the vultures of the HF. I dont have the patience to keep the act up for very long, but there are others on here that live just to enrage others and push their buttons. and with this thread you have showed that your buttons are obviously your feet, and your "hippy" philosophies, and people that appear closed minded about such issues. so just keep in mind that when you make threads like this you will get hated on without fail.
That's "Hippy Missy" She was a guest on my radio show the one day. Actually the topic was on people who go to school barefoot...lol Yes, even I am suprized at how relatively clean my feet are considering I don't even own shoes. My soles are stained dark because I never wear shoes but the tops are suprizingly clean. Maybe because I bathe on a regular basis...lol
what, trolling an internet forum? it is! nobody makes an issue out of it except wannabe hippies who desperately need an issue to prove to everyone that they're wannabe hippies!
Oh Vermont! That is probably chock full of hippies. It is probably very barefoot friendly. You could probably even tour Ben and Jerry's barefoot. Did you see any covered bridges and cute general stores like they show in tourist ads? I always thought, cynically, that maybe they photographed them in Connecticut and called it Vermont. Also, Vermont is a poor state so there's poor people barefoot there as well. I wonder how you'd tell the difference between a poor "normal" person and a hippy if they're both barefoot? I also wonder if, when they are taking pics for tourist pics, they do that barefoot.....oh well.
Friends (probably not anchored to being identified as hippies - perhaps progressive) lived there and in Anchorage. Barefooting was just as much fun there as elsewhere!
YES, I went on a trip to Vermont with some friends last June. Since I had no shoes, I did not bring any on the trip. My one friend remarked that during our trip she had seen more barefoot people in Vermont than any other state. Some of the towns we went to had lots of hippies walking around. And Yes, I did go to the Ben and Jerry's factory (barefoot). We did not have time to tour the factory, but I went to the gift shop and the tourist ice cream parlour. No shoes, no problem. We stayed in Stowe, VT so I didn't see many covered bridges but we did most of our shopping in general stores. It was like you were back in the 1930's or something...lol I even toured the capitol building barefoot. Here is the pic to prove it.